Shikha Dalmia was a senior analyst at Reason Foundation.
Shikha Dalmia
Latest from Shikha Dalmia
Pro-Immigration Conservatives Should Not Peddle the Chain Immigration Fallacy
Unfounded restrictionist tropes won't serve the cause of rational immigration reform.
GOP Restrictionists Are Big Labor's Dupes on Immigration
Anti-immigration Republicans are advancing organized labor's agenda.
India's Selective Outrage: The Tale of Two Rapes
Indians need to hold politicos who sponsor sexual violence accountable
Let Courts Handle Detroit's Inevitable Bankruptcy
A pre-packaged bankruptcy that requires state involvement would be politically explosive.
Fiscal Hawks Need to Fight for the Debt Ceiling
It is a constitutional tool to save America from itself
How Big Labor Plans to Fight Michigan's Right-to-Work Law
Labor unions weigh their options in the courtroom and at the ballot box.
Why Judges Can't Create Colorblind Campuses
The Supreme Court will never succeed in completely removing affirmative action from higher education.
What Canada Can Teach the U.S. About Immigration
America's neighbors to the north point the way to economically rational immigration reforms.
Immigrants Reject the GOP's Big Government Vision, Not its Limited Government Ideals
For a couple of nano seconds after the Republicans' historic shellacking last week it seemed that finally wisdom was dawning and they were beginning to realize that immigrant-bashing was not a winning tactic.
Why Michigan May Become a Right-to-Work State
The defeat of Proposal 2 in Michigan might have unleashed forces that the unions can't hold back.
FEMA: Welfare Masquerading as Disaster Relief
FEMA's head defends the agency's post-hurricane response by saying that emergency relief is not its job.
The GOP's Self-Destructive Position on Immigration
Shutting the border because of affirmative action shows that conservatives will use any argument against immigration.
Romney Is the Most Protectionist GOP Candidate in Living Memory
The Republican presidential hopeful is at odds with his party's free-trade beliefs.
Obamacare's Rationing by Another Name
How the Independent Payment Advisory Board gives sweeping powers to an unelected and unconstitutional board of bureaucrats.
Big Labor Is Going For Broke in Michigan
Protect Our Jobs ballot initiative will make unions more powerful than the legislature.
Immigrants Are Not Miracle Workers Who Can Fix Any Broken Economy
Lessons from Detroit, Baltimore, and other struggling cities
Why London Is Yawning Over the Olympics
Have Western countries finally outgrown the sports socialism of the Olympic Games?
Why India Can't Catch Up With the West
India's legions of petty bureaucrats are killing the country's economy.
Detroit Has Run Out of Other People's Money
If there is a cure for Motown's fiscal woes, it's bankruptcy.
Conservatives Show Their Economic Illiteracy on Immigration
Obama's deportation order puts Republicans on the defensive.
