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.
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Does fiscal conservatism end at the border wall?
opinion Republicans seem to care more about a stupid symbolic wall than conservative economic principles
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Medicaid is a colossal waste of money
opinion And no, cutting spending won't kill hundreds of thousands of Americans
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The shared flaw of our fights against terrorism and climate change
opinion What are we willing to give up to avert disaster?
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Don't cry for the Paris Agreement
opinion The Trump administration is terrifyingly wrong on a lot of things. The Paris Agreement isn't one of them.
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Before you argue for universal health care in America, look at the disaster in England
opinion Any government powerful enough to give you everything want is also capable of taking everything you've got
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Trump is out of control because Republicans are in control
opinion If only America had a Democratic Congress ...
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President Trump torched his legislative agenda by firing Comey
The Explainer There goes health care and tax reform
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The GOP's brilliant new plan to copy Canada's immigration system
opinion This is a federalist solution America's Founders would love
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The dark side of Detroit's renaissance
opinion The Motor City's supposed boom is fueled by crony capitalism and taxpayer exploitation
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The dark side of Bill O'Reilly's advertiser exodus
opinion Even if you want the beleaguered Fox News host gone, be wary of this boycott ...
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The obscure doctrine that could save Trump's travel ban
opinion The plenary power doctrine gives the president sweeping powers to disregard the Constitution when setting immigration policy
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The terrifying rise of nationalist villains in India
opinion Trump's nationalist rhetoric has consequences. Just look at India.
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The ugly truth of Canada's welfare state
opinion Like America and Europe, this putative paragon of human kindness is being led down a nativist path
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India is up in arms over the murders of Indian Americans. Why isn't America?
opinion Maybe if the American media paid more attention...
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How Trump demolished everything the GOP believes in
opinion The GOP has already burned its most cherished beliefs on the altar of Trump
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How today's pro-immigrant activists are adopting the tactics of abolitionists
opinion Their plan to stop Trump's immigration crackdown: Resist. Rebuff. Repeat.
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Milo Yiannopoulos seduced conservatives. And now they're paying the price.
opinion True conservatives should have disavowed this flame-throwing provocateur years ago
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Medicaid is terrible. Can Republicans fix it?
opinion It's time to debunk the great liberal lie on this lousy program that ObamaCare dramatically expanded
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How conservative judges unintentionally sabotaged President Trump's immigration crackdown
opinion President Trump simply does not have free rein to do as he pleases to sanctuary cities
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The foolish Democratic crusade against Betsy DeVos
opinion President Trump has so much problematic baggage. Why are liberals losing their minds over Betsy DeVos?
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Why the Women's March on Washington has already failed
opinion This confused protest rally is deflating the anti-Trump resistance before it even begins
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Donald Trump is ruining Christmas
opinion The president-elect isn't saving the holiday with his ham-handed crusade, he's politicizing it
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The extraordinary hypocrisy of liberals beating up Trump on trade
opinion Liberals would love Donald Trump's trade policies if Bernie Sanders proposed them
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TrumpCare could work. Here's how.
opinion Trump can succeed where Obama failed on health care
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