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Shikha Dalmia

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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

The conservative scheme to pay for parental leave by robbing Social Security

opinion It won't work

opinion

The GOP as we knew it is dead. And what comes next is terrifying.

opinion There is no going back from Trumpism

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 27 February 18

opinion
Trump's anti-immigrant enforcers want to team up with Trump's spies. Watch out.

opinion Beware the eyes of Trump

By Shikha Dalmia Published 16 February 18

opinion
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.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 6 February 18

opinion
How Hindu nationalists devoured India

opinion The sickening rise of anti-Muslim hatred in India

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 31 January 18

opinion
Trump is fighting the last war on immigration

opinion Enough with the wall!

By Shikha Dalmia Published 19 January 18

opinion
Obama failed immigrants. They're paying for it now.

opinion Was ObamaCare worth it?

By Shikha Dalmia Published 10 January 18

opinion

Trump's war on immigrants

opinion It is both malicious and gratuitously petty

By Shikha Dalmia Published 2 January 18

opinion
#MeToo run amok

opinion Movements collapse when they become more interested in collecting heads than advancing their cause

By Shikha Dalmia Published 20 December 17

opinion
How to thwart Trump's cruel crackdown on the DREAMers

opinion Where there's a will, there's a way

By Shikha Dalmia Published 14 December 17

opinion
How the GOP made a royal mess of its good ideas

opinion Republicans should kill the individual mandate. But not like this.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 4 December 17

opinion
America the great

opinion American greatness transcends politics. Let's examine what really makes the U.S. a grand force in the world.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 29 November 17

opinion
The alt-right's favorite academic

opinion Believe it or not, he's a liberal

By Shikha Dalmia Published 8 November 17

opinion

Will Trumpism triumph in Virginia?

opinion Open nativism and closet racism are on the ballot in Virginia. Will they prevail?

By Shikha Dalmia Published 6 November 17

opinion
Donald Trump, job killer

opinion How Trump's belligerent NAFTA stance will cost America untold jobs

By Shikha Dalmia Published 23 October 17

opinion
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

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 12 October 17

opinion
We can't stop mass murder

opinion Why even draconian gun control won't stop mass killings

By Shikha Dalmia Published 6 October 17

opinion
Saudi America

opinion Saudi Arabia wants to be more like America. Does America want to be more like Saudi Arabia?

By Shikha Dalmia Published 29 September 17

opinion
Trump's new travel restrictions are nonsensical and cruel

opinion It's not a Muslim ban. It's worse.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 26 September 17

opinion

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?

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 8 September 17

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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.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 28 August 17

feature
The upside of Trump's moral abdication

opinion How moral Americans are springing into action to counter immoral Trump

By Shikha Dalmia Published 18 August 17

opinion
The dilemma of the Google memo

opinion The Google memo flap isn't black and white. It's the ultimate gray area.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 11 August 17

opinion
Marco Rubio's shameful immigration skid

opinion Little Marco is proving just how small he really is

By Shikha Dalmia Published 27 July 17

opinion
Can technological wizardry save the planet?

opinion The solution to our climate change problem isn't command and control. It's innovation.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 24 July 17

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