
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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Trump's new travel restrictions are nonsensical and cruelopinion It's not a Muslim ban. It's worse.
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Gauri Lankesh was a brilliant and brave journalist. She was my friend. And they murdered her.feature Did Gauri pay with her life for fiercely opposing militant Hindu nationalism?
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The shared flaw of our fights against terrorism and climate changeopinion What are we willing to give up to avert disaster?
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Don't cry for the Paris Agreementopinion The Trump administration is terrifyingly wrong on a lot of things. The Paris Agreement isn't one of them.
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The dark side of Detroit's renaissanceopinion The Motor City's supposed boom is fueled by crony capitalism and taxpayer exploitation
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The dark side of Bill O'Reilly's advertiser exodusopinion Even if you want the beleaguered Fox News host gone, be wary of this boycott ...
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The terrifying rise of nationalist villains in Indiaopinion Trump's nationalist rhetoric has consequences. Just look at India.
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The end of India's economic liberalizationopinion Narendra Modi is trying to save India's economy. Instead, he's wrecking it.
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How 'safe spaces' endanger American freedomopinion We don't need spaces to keep us safe from speech. We need all spaces to be safe for speech.
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How globalization actually saved America's middle classopinion It's all about free trade and immigration
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How police unions actually hurt police officersopinion They're standing in the way of needed reforms that could actually protect police
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What America could learn from India about preventing mass killingsopinion We need a decentralized counterterrorism paradigm that does not rely on intelligence bureaucracies
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How the FBI's Orwellian anti-terror programs are making you less safeopinion Squandering the goodwill of Muslim Americans won't make America more safe — just less free and fair
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Want to solve Europe's jihadi problem? Reform the continent's toxic labor laws.opinion This would save money and reduce radicalization, in one fell swoop
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Is India's Narendra Modi turning into just another thin-skinned, populist despot?opinion The world hoped he'd be an economic reformer and become an example for Pakistan. Instead, the Indian prime minister is repressing campus activists.
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Flint's water crisis isn't a failure of austerity. It's a failure of government.feature This was not the fault of government austerity — but government incompetence, negligence, and rank stupidity. No amount of spending can fix that.
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ISIS just messed with the wrong Islamic countryThe Explainer When ISIS bombed Istanbul, it bit the hand that stealthily fed it
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The bizarre rise of a massively popular porn star in ever-prudish IndiaThe Explainer Who is Sunny Leone, and why is she so important to India?
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Western troops can't stop ISIS. And Saudi Arabia's won't stop ISIS.opinion We need to stop kidding ourselves that there is a quick military solution to ISIS
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America's military adventurism doesn't have much to do with its gun cultureopinion I highly doubt that there was much support in Texas for Barack Obama's Libyan misadventure
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Why any Paris climate agreement will be worthlessopinion Thankfully, the world still has plenty of time to figure this out
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Why 'climate justice' has India and the West at each other's throatsopinion Which countries must sacrifice their futures to avert climate catastrophe?
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India's savage religious zealotry is Silicon Valley's shameopinion A Muslim man was killed by a Hindu mob in India. We need an intervention from the tech leaders fawning over Narendra Modi.
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Volkwagen's unethical emissions scam is partly the government's faultopinion There's more than one villain in this debacle
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