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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Let Trump shut down the government. Then watch him suffer the consequences.
opinion Just let the president do the stupid thing he wants to do
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In defense of Betsy DeVos' Title IX plan
opinion She just wants to give universities space to restore some modicum of due process for those accused of sexual misconduct. What's wrong with that?
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GM vs. Tariff Man
opinion The American auto industry is taking it on the chin from President Trump
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Trump's asylum order is a dastardly assault on the rule of law
opinion This isn't just a moral abomination. It's an attack on the law the president swore to uphold.
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This is the most important midterm election in our lifetime
opinion The only way to quickly — and surely — consign Trumpism to the dustbin of history is by defeating it at the polls
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Where the caravan really came from
opinion America has culpability here. We need to talk about it.
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Where the West went wrong
opinion On the inevitable end of the end of history
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Why Republicans should welcome an FBI investigation into Kavanaugh
opinion An FBI inquiry would be an excellent opportunity for Kavanaugh to cement his stellar reputation without partisan mud-slinging at his accuser
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Betsy DeVos is absolutely right about campus sexual assault rules
opinion The rules are ruining innocent lives. So why are liberals so hysterical about changing them?
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India's stealth war on liberal democracy
opinion Prime Minister Narendra Modi is presiding over a quiet descent into lawlessness
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The despicable politicization of Mollie Tibbetts' murder
opinion Mollie Tibbetts' murder is abominable. It is also not a good argument against immigration.
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Trump's latest immigration injustice is a malicious travesty
opinion This is perverse — and un-American
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Who said it better: Trump or Bernie?
opinion America First isn't just a right-wing idea
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The GOP's abortion conundrum
opinion The pro-life movement needs to work with moms — not against them — if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
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The weaponization of Milton Friedman
opinion How conservatives grossly distorted the late libertarian economist's views to denounce immigration
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Donald Trump's motorcycle gang
opinion What the president's war with Harley-Davidson tells us about Washington's long bipartisan fixation with punishing emigrating people and companies
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The grand failure of Trump's depraved hostage strategy
opinion Holding innocent children as political hostages made millions of Trump's opponents sick. But they refused to bow to his demands.
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The Trump doctrine isn't 'We're America, Bitch.' It's 'I'm Trump, Bitch.'
opinion There is no good or bad, right or wrong. There is only Trump.
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America's immigration inhumanity
opinion How Trump abandoned justice and humanity at America's southern border
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Trump's sneak attack on reproductive rights
opinion The president is threatening Planned Parenthood's federal funding. Here's how they should fight back.
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Our perilous sexual moment
opinion Everyone seems furious. And most everyone is wrong.
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When conservatives don't value families
opinion The hypocrisy on display here is rank — and troubling
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ICE's tyrannical campaign to silence dissent
opinion In a bid to stifle the backlash against its harsh enforcement policies, federal agents are now targeting high-profile immigration activists
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The sad hysteria of the Southern Poverty Law Center
opinion If everyone's a fascist, no one's a fascist
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