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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How the FBI's Orwellian anti-terror programs are making you less safe
opinion Squandering the goodwill of Muslim Americans won't make America more safe — just less free and fair
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Democrats have lost their minds over the minimum wage
opinion Four of their key arguments, debunked
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Want to solve Europe's jihadi problem? Reform the continent's toxic labor laws.
opinion This would save money and reduce radicalization, in one fell swoop
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The silver lining of Trump
opinion He's showing conservatives the ugly side of the policies they want
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Stop scapegoating China for America's economic ills
opinion There are plenty of other reasons America's middle-class workers are having such a tough time
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The dystopian, anti-immigration book The Camp of the Saints is really racist. So why are a bunch of smart conservatives praising it?
opinion You can still stand athwart the Statue of Liberty and yell stop to the huddled masses. Just don't do it while waving this scatological screed.
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Is India's Narendra Modi turning into just another thin-skinned, populist despot?
opinion The world hoped he'd be an economic reformer and become an example for Pakistan. Instead, the Indian prime minister is repressing campus activists.
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Wake up, America: Donald Trump is not a strongman with magical powers to make everything better
opinion Why don't Donald Trump's ethno-nationalist supporters care that he would massively expand the government?
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Why Scalia's death might have robbed progressives of an unexpected immigration ally
opinion Here's why the justice might have backed Obama in the upcoming DAPA decision
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This awful bill shows how Ted Cruz threatens the citizenship rights of all Americans
opinion Meet his Expatriate Terrorist Act. It is truly heinous.
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The one way Ted Cruz really did beat a 'Washington cartel'
opinion In his Iowa victory, the 2016 candidate really did defeat a powerful special interest: ethanol
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Flint water victims can't sue the government. That's another crime.
opinion If a corporation had made the same mistake, they would be paying out millions to each victim. Instead a family of four may only get $4,000.
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Flint's water crisis isn't a failure of austerity. It's a failure of government.
feature This was not the fault of government austerity — but government incompetence, negligence, and rank stupidity. No amount of spending can fix that.
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ISIS just messed with the wrong Islamic country
The Explainer When ISIS bombed Istanbul, it bit the hand that stealthily fed it
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The bizarre rise of a massively popular porn star in ever-prudish India
The Explainer Who is Sunny Leone, and why is she so important to India?
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Western troops can't stop ISIS. And Saudi Arabia's won't stop ISIS.
opinion We need to stop kidding ourselves that there is a quick military solution to ISIS
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America's military adventurism doesn't have much to do with its gun culture
opinion I highly doubt that there was much support in Texas for Barack Obama's Libyan misadventure
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Why any Paris climate agreement will be worthless
opinion Thankfully, the world still has plenty of time to figure this out
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The quiet unraveling of ObamaCare
opinion The president's signature domestic achievement is teetering on the brink of catastrophe
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4 dangerous falsehoods Donald Trump is peddling on trade and immigration
opinion They all betray just how little Trump actually understands about complicated issues of public policy
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The radical isolationism of Donald Trump
opinion Trump promises to "Make America Great Again" by using its military might to cordon the U.S. off from the evils of the world
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Donald Trump, and the bogus myth that foreign tech workers steal American jobs
opinion Foreign tech workers are a boon, not a burden, to the U.S. economy
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Why 'climate justice' has India and the West at each other's throats
opinion Which countries must sacrifice their futures to avert climate catastrophe?
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The bogus assumptions of Hillary Clinton's free-trade switcheroo
opinion The Democratic frontrunner has changed positions — again. And this time, it's for the worse.
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