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Shikha Dalmia is a senior policy analyst at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
Dalmia is a Bloomberg View contributor, a columnist at the Washington Examiner, and writes regularly for Reason magazine. She is also a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications such as the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, The Weekly Standard, Business Week, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. She previously served as a columnist for Forbes.
Dalmia was co-winner of the first 2009 Bastiat Prize for Online Journalism for her columns in Forbes and Reason.
From 1996 to 2004, Dalmia was as an award-winning editorial writer at the Detroit News, covering a variety of policy issues, including the environment, immigration, Social Security, welfare reform, health care and foreign policy. She also worked as a reporter for the Patriot, a national daily newspaper based in New Delhi, India, where she grew up and earned her B.S. degree in chemistry and biology from the University of Delhi.
Dalmia frequenlty appears on Fox Business Network and other television and radio outlets.
Dalmia, who taught news writing courses at Michigan State University, earned a Master's degree in mass communication from Louisiana State University. She also holds a post graduate diploma in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communications.
She lives in the Detroit area with her husband and son.
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- Don't Blame Voters for California's Budget Woes
Big spending pols falsely claim citizen ballot initiatives have tied their hands
Shikha Dalmia, Adam Summers and Adrian Moore
October 9, 2009 - Obama, Race, and Health Care
Understanding America's real and imagined grievances
Shikha Dalmia
September 25, 2009 - Singing the Motown Blues
Shikha Dalmia
September 21, 2009, 10:39pm - Obama's Health Care Plan: Put Up and Shut Up
More broken promises from the candidate of change
Shikha Dalmia
September 14, 2009 - President Obama's Plan Will Control Every Aspect of the Medical Transaction
Health care plan will tell patients when, what and how much coverage they must buy
Shikha Dalmia
September 11, 2009 - About That Detroit Renaissance
Don't believe the hype
Shikha Dalmia
September 11, 2009 - That's a Lie, Mr. President
Shikha Dalmia
September 11, 2009, 10:28am - BaucusCare = TaxoCare
Shikha Dalmia
September 9, 2009, 5:01pm - Motown Comeback?
Shikha Dalmia
September 9, 2009, 12:42pm - About That Detroit Renaissance
What chance is there for an artist-led revival in the midst of civic hemorrhage?
Shikha Dalmia
September 9, 2009 - Moral of Michigan's Stimulus Story: Don't Give Subsidies to Hollywood Fat-Cats
Shikha Dalmia
September 4, 2009, 11:16am - The French Patient
Shikha Dalmia
August 29, 2009, 12:28am - The Evil-Mongering of the American Medical Association
Obama's cozy relationship with Big Medicine will hurt patients
Shikha Dalmia
August 27, 2009 - Breaking the AMA Monopoly
Shikha Dalmia
August 26, 2009, 6:07pm - Will ObamaCare Cure a Stupidity Epidemic in Rhode Island?
Shikha Dalmia
August 22, 2009, 10:26pm - Obama's Heavenly Care
Shikha Dalmia
August 22, 2009, 12:45am - Obama's Axis of Evil on Health Care
Shikha Dalmia
August 16, 2009, 11:02pm - Obama's "Astro-Turf" Health Care Conversation
Shikha Dalmia
August 15, 2009, 9:35am - Euthanizing Cars Won't Heal the Economy or the Planet
Shikha Dalmia
August 12, 2009, 1:02pm - Cash for Clunkers Destroys Wealth and Resources
Program isn't delivering on its eco-goals
Shikha Dalmia
August 12, 2009 - When Obama Speaks, "I Hear a Symphony"
Shikha Dalmia
August 8, 2009, 10:50am - Sticker Shock Over ObamaCare: Part 2
Shikha Dalmia
August 6, 2009, 11:16pm - Obama's Manufactured Indignation
Shikha Dalmia
August 5, 2009, 10:17pm - America's Real Immigration Problem
Shikha Dalmia
August 4, 2009, 10:10pm - The Myth of Free-Market Health Care in America
Why other Western countries offer no panacea for American woes
Shikha Dalmia
July 30, 2009 - America Doesn't Have a Free Market Health Care System
Shikha Dalmia
July 29, 2009, 4:47pm - The Myth Of Free Market Health Care In America
Uncle Sam picks up nearly half of the country's $2.5 trillion annual health care tab
Shikha Dalmia
July 29, 2009 - ObamaCare Explained
Shikha Dalmia
July 23, 2009, 10:21am - Fun Taxes on Health Care
Shikha Dalmia
July 21, 2009, 6:35pm - Third World to Obama: Global Warming is Your Problem
Shikha Dalmia
July 17, 2009, 9:35am - Why Poor Countries Won't Curb Emissions
Massive greenhouse gas reductions would require developing countries to abandon plans to ever conquer poverty
Shikha Dalmia
July 15, 2009 - The Employee Free Choice Act and Binding Arbitration
EFCA is destructive to the rights of employers and workers, and the economy
Shikha Dalmia
July 14, 2009 - Card Check's Evil Twin -- Binding Arbitration
Shikha Dalmia
July 12, 2009, 9:23pm - Please Go To Bed, Dear Lawmakers
Shikha Dalmia
July 8, 2009, 1:23pm - Who's the Real Health Care Radical?
Shikha Dalmia
July 7, 2009, 10:32am - Union Against Union
Shikha Dalmia
July 2, 2009, 10:45pm - President Obama's Top Five Health Care Lies
Tony Soprano Care
Shikha Dalmia
July 2, 2009 - Obama's Not-So-Noble Health Care Lies
Shikha Dalmia
July 1, 2009, 12:51pm - Will the Climate Change Bill Cost Just a Postage Stamp?
Shikha Dalmia
June 29, 2009, 10:12am - The Real Climate Change Deniers
Shikha Dalmia
June 25, 2009, 11:39pm - The Right Cure for Physician Wages
Shikha Dalmia
June 24, 2009, 5:48pm - Reich's False Prescription
Shikha Dalmia
June 24, 2009, 10:55am - ObamaCare, Like Medicare, WIll be a Total Disaster
Shikha Dalmia
June 19, 2009, 2:50pm - Medicare Is Not the Model for Health Care Reform
The "public option" health care plan will not be financially sustainable
Shikha Dalmia
June 18, 2009 - Time to Replace Don't Ask, Don't Tell with When Asked, Do Tell
Shikha Dalmia
June 12, 2009, 10:51am - The Supreme Court Gives Chrysler's Evil "Speculators" Some Hope
Shikha Dalmia
June 9, 2009, 9:47am - Obama's Betrayal on Don't Ask Don't Tell
Shikha Dalmia
June 3, 2009, 5:14pm - Killing G.M. Softly
Shikha Dalmia
June 3, 2009, 1:34pm - Obama's Betrayal on Don't Ask Don't Tell
The president's forgotten civil rights promise
Shikha Dalmia
June 3, 2009 - A Green Ride in Government Motors
Shikha Dalmia
June 2, 2009, 12:23am
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