Shikha Dalmia

Columnist

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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Opinion

Greg Abbott turns Republican rage into law

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Opinion

Biden's lose-lose immigration strategy

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Opinion

How Biden's immigration bill would empower future Trumps

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Opinion

How Biden can future-proof America's immigration system

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Opinion

Lockdowns are no longer the answer

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Opinion

Why this libertarian is voting for Biden

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Analysis

Is Trump a bigger socialist than Biden?

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Opinion

Cancel culture and conservative glass houses

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Opinion

What makes America exceptional

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Opinion

The right's 'rule of law' hypocrisy

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Opinion

There's another way to fight coronavirus

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Opinion

America's national priority should be a home coronavirus test

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Opinion

Trump's crackdown on skilled immigrants is hurting our coronavirus response

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Opinion

How Modi supporters are trying to cloak an anti-Muslim bill in American law

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Opinion

The lie of the immigrant welfare queen

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Opinion

A failed impeachment is still worth it

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Opinion

Modi is resurrecting the most horrifying episode of his career to crush dissent

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Opinion

Trump has created a foreign student crisis

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Opinion

The goofy fantasy of anti-war Trump

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Opinion

The West was profoundly wrong about Modi

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Opinion

India is laying the groundwork for a mass faith-cleansing

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Opinion

Republicans are leading the country to socialism

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Analysis

India is entering a new dark age

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Opinion

The real reason Kamala Harris is tanking

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Opinion

Trump's litany of broken promises

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Opinion

The fight against climate change needs better weapons

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Feature

The Kurdish solution that Trump won't dare contemplate

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Opinion

The retaliatory presidency

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Opinion

The left-wing threat to campus free speech is abating. The right-wing threat is not.

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Opinion

Will no one defend free trade?

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Feature

India comes down with a virulent strain of nativism

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Opinion

Modi's devastating distraction in Kashmir

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Opinion

The farming out of state violence

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Opinion

Tulsi Gabbard is no peacenik

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Opinion

Conservatives have an assimilation problem

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Opinion

Trump's new asylum rule is probably doomed. It's still incredibly dangerous.