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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Volkwagen's unethical emissions scam is partly the government's fault
opinion There's more than one villain in this debacle
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Obama's cowardly stance on Syrian refugees
opinion Only 10,000 will be admitted in 2016? That's pathetic.
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Upper-caste Indians are demanding affirmative action for themselves. Would white Americans ever do the same?
opinion Is it so hard to imagine someone like, say, Donald Trump demanding that?
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Why Jeb Bush should pledge to roll out the welcome mat for Asian birth tourists
opinion Instead, he's joining Trump to throw immigrants under the bus
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The death of pro-choice Republicans
opinion And what it means for the future of the GOP
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The massive contradiction in Rand Paul's immigration stance
opinion The Kentucky senator sold out his libertarian principles on this key issue
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Why privatizing marriage would be a disaster
opinion You simply cannot get government out of the marriage business — and trying will only make things worse
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How Donald Trump pressured Hillary Clinton to sell out Latino immigrants
opinion Talk about caving in...
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How conservatives and liberals are both hijacking libertarian principles for partisan gain
opinion Maybe we libertarians should be flattered. And yet...
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How John Roberts' ObamaCare apostasy helped conservatives crush Obama's environmental overreach
opinion Maybe he had a plan all along...
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Why feminists are fighting a losing battle over boobs
opinion Liberal feminists are caught between Victorian prudishness and Bacchanalian libertinism
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Why the GOP still has a minority problem — even though it has so many minority candidates
opinion The Republican Party is represented by a rainbow of politicians. So why can't it assemble a rainbow coalition?
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Don't believe the liberal spin. ObamaCare is sputtering.
opinion And it's probably going to get worse
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Why slapping GM with a massive criminal fine won't improve auto safety
opinion The feds are taking out the knives. That won't help anyone.
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Hillary Clinton has already crushed Republicans on immigration
opinion Behold: The brilliance of flip-flopping to embrace amnesty
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How the pro-life lobby is hurting the cause of life
opinion It's surely not intentional. But it's real.
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Carly Fiorina: A real feminist
opinion The reactionary feminist left opposes her. But this GOP presidential candidate could make real progress for American women.
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The frightening power of our emboldened police
opinion The Freddie Gray investigation shows that the police are more equal than others
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Bobby Jindal's existential angst
opinion The Louisiana governor and presidential hopeful seems to have lost sense of who he is and what he's doing
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The market-based solution to California's water crisis
opinion Prescriptive government is the opposite of what we need
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The willful ignorance of the hawks who oppose the Iran nuclear deal
opinion Obama's nuclear deal with Iran is hardly perfect. But it's by far the best of bad options.
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The overblown hypocrisy of Tim Cook's business boycott of Indiana
opinion And how Indiana ought to fix its controversial new law
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The real costs of foolish plans to 'secure' the border
opinion An old construction maxim says, "Fast, good, and cheap: Pick two." A conservative-trumpeted border fence can't even get one.
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The pernicious reality of the Rubio-Lee tax plan
opinion The GOP senators' plan does the right thing for American businesses. It does the wrong thing for much of the middle class.
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