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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Feminism's oppression obsession undermines women
opinion We need fewer militant critics and more constructive, attainable ideas for structural reform
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Obama’s immigration cynicism has endangered the Latino community
opinion For this supposed liberal champion of social justice, it's all about the politics
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Reform conservatism is a triumph of liberalism
opinion The hot new conservative movement isn't trying to roll back the liberal welfare state. It's trying to co-opt it.
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The road to serfdom logic of Obama's corporate tax plan
opinion Redistributionist Democrats surely have the F.A. Hayek spinning in his grave
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How Michelle Obama's fashion diplomacy helped erode India's color prejudice
The Explainer This might have been the greatest accomplishment of the Obamas' overseas visit
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How Obama can help eradicate the scourge of militant Hindu nationalism
opinion The president's visit to India's Republic Day celebration will be critical
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4 ways Obama can help the middle class — without jacking up tax rates
opinion Too bad he won't do any of them
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Hyphenated-Americans don't undermine American identity
opinion Don't listen to the critics who say we fail to "emotionally assimilate"
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Rand Paul and Ron Paul are both wrong about Paris
opinion One botches the diagnosis. The other botches the cure.
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The conservative battle against ObamaCare won't end with Halbig
opinion Halbig may die in the courts. But ObamaCare's difficulties will live on.
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If Democrats abandon immigration reform after Tuesday's likely loss, they will turn 2016 into a debacle
opinion Latinos won't vote for a party that repeatedly breaks its promises
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How America's broken immigration system is failing the military
opinion Letting legal immigrants into our nation's army would give them a path to citizenship — and boost sputtering recruitment numbers
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A travel ban won't save you from Ebola
opinion It might even make things worse
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Stop freaking out over the West's jihadi tourists
opinion Their numbers are minuscule. And if anything, this trend shows the triumph of liberalism.
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Ezra Klein totally whiffed on affirmative consent
opinion "Yes means yes" laws go way overboard in assessing the scope of colleges' sexual assault problems and in punishing suspected offenders
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The big problem with California's new sexual consent law
opinion The harsh reality is that much of sex is not consensual — but it is also not non-consensual
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How foreign aid screwed up Liberia's ability to fight Ebola
opinion Foreign aid has created a hopelessly dependent political class that stays in business by ignoring good governance and begging its Western benefactors instead
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Why Pakistan won't hunt down the terrorists within its borders
opinion Pakistan's civilian leaders are terrified of the country's real power brokers
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The self-aggrandizing pomposity of India's Narendra Modi
opinion It's on full display during his visit to the U.S. — and in his policies back home in India
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The shameful ineptitude of America's automobile regulators
opinion Enough with the red tape! The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration is incompetent, anyway.
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Hey, unions: Don't freak out about Scott Walker's big victory
opinion At least for now. Eventually, though, you'll probably need to panic.
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Why anti-immigrant fervor is destined to become a relic of the past
opinion Bigotry isn't going away anytime soon. But status-quo bias is.
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Workplace sexism in America is worse than it is in India
opinion And yes, I know that India is the land of sex-selective abortions, dowry deaths, and arranged marriages
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On global warming, conservatives have a blind spot — and liberals have tunnel vision
opinion But that doesn't mean we can't find a solution to Earth's rising temperature
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