Shikha Dalmia was a senior analyst at Reason Foundation.
The GOP Died at the Border Wall
The Republican Party hates immigrants more than it hates big government.
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It's Official: Republicans Hate Immigrants More Than Government Spending
And they don't care about limited government either.
Sorry, Liberals: Protecting the Medicaid Status Quo Won't Save Patients
The program desperately needs radical surgery
Will Reforming Medicaid Kill People?
Liberal attachment to the worst insurance program in the civilized world is mind-boggling.
The Fatal Flaw in the Fights Against Global Warming and Global Terrorism
Beware the precautionary tales of the left and the right.
Playing Tax Collector for the Welfare State Didn't Win British Tories Voters
The party is in trouble because of Prime Minister Theresa May's dementia tax
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Paris Climate Agreement Wasn't Going to Save the Planet
So America's withdrawal won't lead to global doom.
Pulling Out of Paris Won't Doom the Planet
Trump may be nuts but liberals need to get a grip.
Britain Is Turning Into a Welfare State Dystopia
Theresa May wants to go after seniors' homes to pay for their long-term care
Another Advantage of Divided Government: Easier to Impeach the President
Republicans may rue the day they won Congress with Trump as president
The Case for Trump's Impeachment is Over-Determined
Where is divided government when you need it?
Surprise: Republicans Have a Sensible Plan to Fix Immigration
They'll let states enact their own guest-worker programs.
No Joke: Republicans Have An Excellent Plan to Fix Immigration
And it does not involve a big, beautiful wall
Will Crony Capitalists Make Detroit Great Again?
Their schemes to bilk taxpayers in the name of development are getting more outrageous.
Crony Capitalists in Detroit Are Ripping Off Taxpayers
The city's revival is mainly reviving the pocket books of connected billionaires
Trump's Radical Tax Reform Is the Best Antidote for Trumpism
A growing economy will undercut the appeal of his ethno-nationalist politics.
Bill O'Reilly Lost to the Feminists He Despises
No one is too big to fail in a properly functioning market
Trump's Executive Order Targeting the H-1B Visa Program Is Pure Theater
He is baiting opponents to sue him.
Portland Resistance Radicals Trying to Disrupt an Anti-Immigration Speaker Thwarted by Lewis & Clark Students
The student organizers were a model of how to engage your intellectual opponents, even hateful ones
Will a Constitutionally Questionable Doctrine Save Trump's Travel Ban?
The justices could choose to look the other way because of the plenary power doctrine.
America Needs High-Skilled Foreign Workers
If companies can't hire foreign techies in the U.S., they'll flee to where they can.
Advertisers Boycotting Bill O'Reilly Due to Feminist Pressure Are Doing the Right Thing for the Wrong Reason
The serial sexual harasser needs to get his comeuppance but...
Trump Is a Green Light for Illiberal Rulers Like India's Modi
The loss of liberalism in America will be costly for persecuted minorities elsewhere.
How Trump Is Emboldening a Reign of Anti-Muslim Terror in India
America is losing its soft power to spread liberal values
The Nativist Bias in the Welfare State
It is making even Canadians act more ruthlessly rather than benevolently
The Divisive Logic of the Welfare State
It is feeding forces of nativism in the West, including in compassionate Canada
Do Crimes Against Immigrants Deserve More Attention?
The coverage of recent shootings of Indian Americans was muted compared to terrorist attacks
Trump Has Radically Transformed the GOP
The party has already given up on five of its core issues.
The Immoral 'Rule of Law ' Behind Trump's Deportation Regime
It is wrong just like Fugitive Slave laws were wrong.
Trump's New Travel Ban, Just as Mean and Useless as the Old One
It covers its legal tracks but is still an exercise in Muslim bashing
Bring the Coffin, Trump Has Just About Killed the GOP
He has devoured the party's core issues
Feminism Needs to Take a Day Off
The upcoming Day Without A Woman is a Western feminist conceit.
Like Fugitive Slave Laws, Deportation Is a Moral Loser
The resistance to Trump's war on immigration looks remarkably similar to the abolitionist movement
Trump Trots Out Canada's Obsolete Immigration Policy For America
Merit-based immigration is economically obtuse
Conservatives Made Their Bed With Milo, Now They Have to Lie In It
Disinviting him from CPAC won't wash their sins.
Trump's Deportation Memos Will Give the Joe Arpaios of America Free Rein to Terrorize Immigrants
But not a single American will be any safer.
Conservatives Are Finally Feeling Screwed by Milo
That it took them so long to see he is a false anti-PC messiah shows their moral bankruptcy
Reforming Our Awful Medicaid Program Requires Massive Doses of Political Courage
Republicans don't know how to roll back Obamacare's massive expansion of this lousy program.
Medicaid is Broken. Long Live Medicaid
GOP efforts to repeal Obamacare will run into a buzz-saw of political opposition
Undocumented Aliens May Be Safe in Sanctuary Cities, Thanks to Conservative Justices
The ruling against Obamacare's Medicaid mandate renders the order toothless.
How the Supreme Court's Conservative Justices May Have Saved Undocumented Aliens in Sanctuary Cities
Trump's executive order is toothless
Democrats' Crusade Against Betsy DeVos Only Discredits Them
They should take her argument for school choice seriously, not brand her as an ideologue
Trump's Great Wall Will Be Costly and Useless and Mexico Won't Pay For It
You will, dear American taxpayers.
Trump's Scrapping of TPP Will Make America Poor Again
American consumers, exporters and manufacturing will get screwed
The Idiotic Democratic Crusade Against Betsy DeVos
National Choice Week would be a good time to get off their high horse
The Pointless Women's March Against Trump
Feminist windbags will take the air out of the anti-Trump movement.
