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

Kirsten Gillibrand's losing brand of feminism

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Opinion

America First is American imperialism by another name

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Opinion

Narendra Modi is what Trump would be without constitutional restraints

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Opinion

Why Indian PM Narendra Modi is doubling down on fear

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Opinion

Why Stephen Miller's sanctuary city plan might actually be great for sanctuary cities

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Opinion

The cost-free way to end the border rush

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Opinion

Open immigration policies are not the route to fascism

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Opinion

Trump isn't rolling back the American empire. He's expanding it.

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Opinion

If America can launch military strikes in Pakistan, why can't India?

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Opinion

The Democrats' total capitulation on the border

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Opinion

America's shameful history of border cruelty

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Opinion

Why Trump should ditch Stephen Miller and strike an immigration deal

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Opinion

Disband the Women's March

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Opinion

Remember the Kurds

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Opinion

How Democrats can drive a hard bargain over the wall

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Opinion

Let Trump shut down the government. Then watch him suffer the consequences.

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Opinion

In defense of Betsy DeVos' Title IX plan

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Opinion

GM vs. Tariff Man

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Opinion

Trump's asylum order is a dastardly assault on the rule of law

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Opinion

This is the most important midterm election in our lifetime

Opinion

Where the caravan really came from

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Opinion

Where the West went wrong

Opinion

Why Republicans should welcome an FBI investigation into Kavanaugh

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Opinion

Betsy DeVos is absolutely right about campus sexual assault rules

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and protesters

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Opinion

India's stealth war on liberal democracy

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Opinion

The despicable politicization of Mollie Tibbetts' murder

President Trump peeks through some doors.

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Opinion

Trump's latest immigration injustice is a malicious travesty

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Opinion

Who said it better: Trump or Bernie?

A dark sky clouds the Supreme Court before its upcoming battle with abortion rights.

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Opinion

The GOP's abortion conundrum

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Opinion

The weaponization of Milton Friedman

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Opinion

Donald Trump's motorcycle gang

A child, her mother, and a Border Patrol agent.

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Opinion

The grand failure of Trump's depraved hostage strategy

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Opinion

The Trump doctrine isn't 'We're America, Bitch.' It's 'I'm Trump, Bitch.'

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Opinion

America's immigration inhumanity

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Opinion

Trump's sneak attack on reproductive rights

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Opinion

Our perilous sexual moment