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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

A street vender checks the authenticity of a rupee.

The end of India's economic liberalization

opinion Narendra Modi is trying to save India's economy. Instead, he's wrecking it.

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Coming soon to Trump's America: A new era of minority activism

opinion The best hope then to rein in Trump's future excesses comes not from white people — but his prospective victims, minorities

By Shikha Dalmia Published 11 November 16

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How Bill Weld betrayed libertarians

opinion What on Earth is he doing talking up Hillary Clinton?

By Shikha Dalmia Published 3 November 16

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Why the biggest losers of the 2016 election will be immigration hardliners

opinion The election won't be a referendum on Trump. It will be a referendum on Trumpist nativism.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 1 November 16

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Real feminists don't airbrush Hillary Clinton's flaws

opinion Here's why her inevitable win will be no victory for feminism

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 27 October 16

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Will the GOP destroy its future to save its base?

The Explainer How conservatives are learning all the wrong lessons from Trump's immigration rhetoric

By Shikha Dalmia Published 18 October 16

The Explainer
The silver lining of Trump

feature He's showing conservatives the ugly side of the policies they want

By Shikha Dalmia Published 11 October 16

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Conservatives really want Donald Trump to save the Supreme Court. Instead, he'll ruin it.

opinion He won't appoint originalist jurists. He'll be FDR on steroids.

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 7 October 16

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Donald Trump's autocratic infrastructure nationalism

opinion Donald Trump made his career as a builder. But that doesn't mean he understands infrastructure.

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 30 September 16

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How 'safe spaces' endanger American freedom

opinion We don't need spaces to keep us safe from speech. We need all spaces to be safe for speech.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 14 September 16

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How globalization actually saved America's middle class

opinion It's all about free trade and immigration

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 8 September 16

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The 2016 candidate with a brilliant immigration plan isn't who you think it is

opinion It's certainly not Donald Trump. And it's not Hillary Clinton, either.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 8 September 16

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Why ObamaCare failed

opinion It's time for the Affordable Care Act's cheerleaders on the left to face facts

By Shikha Dalmia Published 29 August 16

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Donald Trump couldn't pass his own ideological test

opinion This peddler of "hateful ideology" has no respect for the very Constitution that he now seeks to defend from immigrants

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 19 August 16

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6 ways Donald Trump wants to trample the Constitution

opinion These Trump proposals aren't just illegal. They're blatantly unconstitutional.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 26 July 16

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How police unions actually hurt police officers

opinion They're standing in the way of needed reforms that could actually protect police

By Shikha Dalmia Published 18 July 16

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The liberal war on climate dissenters

opinion Americans are so focused on the outrageous presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, we've largely missed one of the biggest political stories of 2016

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 11 July 16

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Donald Trump's free-trade follies

opinion The GOP must now choose between repudiating its principles or its candidate

By Shikha Dalmia Published 30 June 16

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Why immigration will be the most important wedge issue in the 2016 race

opinion And why that's a bad thing

By Shikha Dalmia Published 27 June 16

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What America could learn from India about preventing mass killings

opinion We need a decentralized counterterrorism paradigm that does not rely on intelligence bureaucracies

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 17 June 16

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Are immigrants America's best defense against tyranny?

opinion Latinos can thwart Donald Trump and save America from itself, as James Madison envisioned

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 13 June 16

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Can Gary Johnson possibly find mainstream appeal?

opinion He has a golden opportunity. He has yet to seize it.

By Shikha Dalmia Published 10 June 16

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The foolishness of Trump-loving peaceniks

opinion Trump's foreign policy isolationism won't lead to peace because his trade policy isolationism will create the pre-conditions for war

By Shikha Dalmia Last updated 31 May 16

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How Donald Trump is unleashing the demons of the Third World

opinion Some ultra-nationalists abroad look at Donald Trump and see a hero

By Shikha Dalmia Published 23 May 16

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Why do pro-life conservatives support anti-immigrant groups pushing population control?

opinion There is a strange hypocrisy at the heart of the conservative movement

By Shikha Dalmia Published 11 May 16

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