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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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
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How Bill Weld betrayed libertarians
opinion What on Earth is he doing talking up Hillary Clinton?
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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.
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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
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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
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The silver lining of Trump
feature He's showing conservatives the ugly side of the policies they want
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How globalization actually saved America's middle class
opinion It's all about free trade and immigration
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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.
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Why ObamaCare failed
opinion It's time for the Affordable Care Act's cheerleaders on the left to face facts
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Donald Trump's free-trade follies
opinion The GOP must now choose between repudiating its principles or its candidate
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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
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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
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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
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Can Gary Johnson possibly find mainstream appeal?
opinion He has a golden opportunity. He has yet to seize it.
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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
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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
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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
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