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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Why privatizing marriage would be a disaster
opinion You simply cannot get government out of the marriage business — and trying will only make things worse
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Why slapping GM with a massive criminal fine won't improve auto safety
opinion The feds are taking out the knives. That won't help anyone.
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The frightening power of our emboldened police
opinion The Freddie Gray investigation shows that the police are more equal than others
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The market-based solution to California's water crisis
opinion Prescriptive government is the opposite of what we need
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The willful ignorance of the hawks who oppose the Iran nuclear deal
opinion Obama's nuclear deal with Iran is hardly perfect. But it's by far the best of bad options.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Affirmative action is doomed. Here's what progressives should do about it.
opinion Instead of cobbling minority preferences onto a broken system, liberals should attack the racial injustices at the root of the problem
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