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.

A child reaching for a San Diego border fence.

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Opinion

When conservatives don't value families

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Opinion

ICE's tyrannical campaign to silence dissent

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Opinion

The sad hysteria of the Southern Poverty Law Center

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Opinion

The conservative scheme to pay for parental leave by robbing Social Security

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Opinion

The GOP as we knew it is dead. And what comes next is terrifying.

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Opinion

Trump's anti-immigrant enforcers want to team up with Trump's spies. Watch out.

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Opinion

Trump's cruel quest to rid America of foreign-born workers

A protest against the movie 'Palmaavati' in Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Opinion

How Hindu nationalists devoured India

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Opinion

Trump is fighting the last war on immigration

An immigration rally supporting DREAMers.

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Opinion

Obama failed immigrants. They're paying for it now.

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Opinion

Trump's war on immigrants

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Opinion

#MeToo run amok

Immigration activists rally for a clean Dream Act.

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Opinion

How to thwart Trump's cruel crackdown on the DREAMers

Sen. Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump.

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Opinion

How the GOP made a royal mess of its good ideas

The first lunar landing: just one of America's finest achievements.

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Opinion

America the great

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Opinion

The alt-right's favorite academic

Vice President Mike Pence campaigns with Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie.

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Opinion

Will Trumpism triumph in Virginia?

A worker at Honda's Indiana plant in 2011.

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Opinion

Donald Trump, job killer

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Opinion

Trump's ransom note for the DREAMers

A vigil for victims of the Las Vegas massacre.

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Opinion

We can't stop mass murder

Women in Saudi Arabia attent an employment recruitment event for women.

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Opinion

Saudi America

A Syrian refugee wipes her eyes at a rally protesting President Trump's travel ban.

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Opinion

Trump's new travel restrictions are nonsensical and cruel

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Feature

Gauri Lankesh was a brilliant and brave journalist. She was my friend. And they murdered her.

Jim Chilton walks beside a border fence on his ranch in Arivaca, Arizona.

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Feature

How America turned this Arizona border town into a police state

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Opinion

The upside of Trump's moral abdication

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Opinion

The dilemma of the Google memo

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Opinion

Marco Rubio's shameful immigration skid

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Opinion

Can technological wizardry save the planet?

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Feature

How today's pro-immigrant activists are adopting the tactics of abolitionists

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Opinion

Does fiscal conservatism end at the border wall?

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Opinion

Medicaid is a colossal waste of money

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Opinion

The shared flaw of our fights against terrorism and climate change

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Opinion

Don't cry for the Paris Agreement

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Opinion

Before you argue for universal health care in America, look at the disaster in England

Sen. Mitch McConnell and other Republican senators.

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Opinion

Trump is out of control because Republicans are in control

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Analysis

President Trump torched his legislative agenda by firing Comey