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 GOP as we knew it is dead. And what comes next is terrifying.
opinion There is no going back from Trumpism
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Trump's anti-immigrant enforcers want to team up with Trump's spies. Watch out.
opinion Beware the eyes of Trump
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Trump's cruel quest to rid America of foreign-born workers
opinion They are America's most valuable immigrants. And our president seems intent on making their lives uncertain and miserable.
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How Hindu nationalists devoured India
opinion The sickening rise of anti-Muslim hatred in India
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Trump is fighting the last war on immigration
opinion Enough with the wall!
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Obama failed immigrants. They're paying for it now.
opinion Was ObamaCare worth it?
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Trump's war on immigrants
opinion It is both malicious and gratuitously petty
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#MeToo run amok
opinion Movements collapse when they become more interested in collecting heads than advancing their cause
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How to thwart Trump's cruel crackdown on the DREAMers
opinion Where there's a will, there's a way
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How the GOP made a royal mess of its good ideas
opinion Republicans should kill the individual mandate. But not like this.
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America the great
opinion American greatness transcends politics. Let's examine what really makes the U.S. a grand force in the world.
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The alt-right's favorite academic
opinion Believe it or not, he's a liberal
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Will Trumpism triumph in Virginia?
opinion Open nativism and closet racism are on the ballot in Virginia. Will they prevail?
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Donald Trump, job killer
opinion How Trump's belligerent NAFTA stance will cost America untold jobs
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Trump's ransom note for the DREAMers
opinion The White House's new list of immigration demands isn't a good-faith opening bid for an eventual compromise
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We can't stop mass murder
opinion Why even draconian gun control won't stop mass killings
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Saudi America
opinion Saudi Arabia wants to be more like America. Does America want to be more like Saudi Arabia?
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Trump's new travel restrictions are nonsensical and cruel
opinion It's not a Muslim ban. It's worse.
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Gauri Lankesh was a brilliant and brave journalist. She was my friend. And they murdered her.
feature Did Gauri pay with her life for fiercely opposing militant Hindu nationalism?
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How America turned this Arizona border town into a police state
feature I visited an Arizona border town. Here's what they really think about aggressive immigration enforcement.
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The upside of Trump's moral abdication
opinion How moral Americans are springing into action to counter immoral Trump
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The dilemma of the Google memo
opinion The Google memo flap isn't black and white. It's the ultimate gray area.
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Marco Rubio's shameful immigration skid
opinion Little Marco is proving just how small he really is
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Can technological wizardry save the planet?
opinion The solution to our climate change problem isn't command and control. It's innovation.
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