Shikha Dalmia
Shikha Dalmia is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University studying the rise of populist authoritarianism. She is a Bloomberg View contributor and a columnist at the Washington Examiner, and she also writes regularly for The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. She considers herself to be a progressive libertarian and an agnostic with Buddhist longings and a Sufi soul.
Latest articles by Shikha Dalmia
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The Kurdish solution that Trump won't dare contemplate
feature If the president is serious about protecting Kurds, he will stop deporting them and start evacuating them to America
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The retaliatory presidency
opinion Trump will stop at nothing to hit back at anyone who crosses him. That is extremely dangerous.
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The left-wing threat to campus free speech is abating. The right-wing threat is not.
opinion Why campus free speech is under siege — from the right
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Will no one defend free trade?
opinion Americans love free trade, thanks to Trump. Why doesn't any major 2020 candidate?
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India comes down with a virulent strain of nativism
feature Four million Indians are in danger of becoming stateless next month
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Modi's devastating distraction in Kashmir
opinion The Indian prime minister wags the dog in one of the world's most volatile regions
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The farming out of state violence
opinion This is what happens when the government warns of invasions and encourages vigilantes
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Tulsi Gabbard is no peacenik
opinion She went out of her way to condemn Trump as a 'warmonger,' but there isn't much daylight between her foreign policy position and his
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Conservatives have an assimilation problem
opinion It's the new nationalists, not immigrants, who seem culturally unfit for the United States
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Trump's new asylum rule is probably doomed. It's still incredibly dangerous.
opinion Blocking asylum for Central American migrants is legally questionable for a whole host of reasons
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Kirsten Gillibrand's losing brand of feminism
opinion Here's why Gillibrand 2020 is going nowhere
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America First is American imperialism by another name
opinion A United States that plays by no rules except narrowly selfish ones will only breed resentment and anger
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Narendra Modi is what Trump would be without constitutional restraints
opinion Imagine a right-wing demagogue who could actually make all his whims come true
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Why Indian PM Narendra Modi is doubling down on fear
opinion It's the Indian economy, stupid
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Why Stephen Miller's sanctuary city plan might actually be great for sanctuary cities
opinion Time to call his bluff
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The cost-free way to end the border rush
opinion Start giving all migrants temporary work visas — with a caveat
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Open immigration policies are not the route to fascism
opinion Contra David Frum, locking down America's borders is inhumane, unnecessary, and politically stupid
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Trump isn't rolling back the American empire. He's expanding it.
opinion Trump is not diminishing America's military footprint; if anything, he's expanding it
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If America can launch military strikes in Pakistan, why can't India?
opinion On the perilous example set by the bin Laden raid
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The Democrats' total capitulation on the border
opinion What did Democrats receive for gifting Trump so much at the border? Nothing.
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America's shameful history of border cruelty
opinion Even before Trump's zero-tolerance enforcement policy unleashed new horrors, inhumanity at the border was part and parcel of America's immigration enforcement
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Why Trump should ditch Stephen Miller and strike an immigration deal
opinion To keep doing the same thing over and over again in the face of failure is the definition of insanity. It's time Trump tried something different.
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Disband the Women's March
opinion Why the group's many fissures are too broad and too deep to repair
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Remember the Kurds
opinion In withdrawing too hastily from Syria, America is about to repeat the mistakes of the fall of Saigon
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