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Shikha Dalmia

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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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- Wither to Conservatism?
Shikha Dalmia
May 27, 2009, 11:16pm - Fun Facts about the Obama Budget
Shikha Dalmia
May 25, 2009, 11:27am - Who Will Bailout Uncle Sam?
Shikha Dalmia
May 21, 2009, 7:42pm - Conservatives Need to Accept Liberty Not Just in Name But Also In Attitude
Shikha Dalmia
May 20, 2009, 3:19pm - Dear GOP: Please Choose Liberty
Even non-Republicans need a strong opposition
Shikha Dalmia
May 20, 2009 - Health Care Quackery: Round 2 on Tierney Lab
Shikha Dalmia
May 8, 2009, 12:16pm - Contrary to Claims, Government-Run Health Care Won't Reduce Costs or Boost Economy
Shikha Dalmia
May 6, 2009, 10:20am - The Economic Impact of President Obama's Health Care Tactics
No major industrialized economy with universal health care has performed better than the U.S. in the last decade
Shikha Dalmia
May 6, 2009 - Spring Madness on Global Warming
Shikha Dalmia
May 5, 2009, 5:40pm - White House's New Political Consultant: Elliot Spitzer!
Shikha Dalmia
May 4, 2009, 12:36pm - Obama to UAW: XOXOXO.............
Shikha Dalmia
May 4, 2009, 1:16am - Obama's Sweet Surrender to the UAW
Shikha Dalmia
April 29, 2009, 4:45pm - University of California System's Fishy New Admissions Policies
Shikha Dalmia
April 28, 2009, 9:16pm - Address as Education Destiny
Shikha Dalmia
April 22, 2009, 2:22pm - President Obama Fails the Kids in the DC Voucher Program
Ignoring the program's big successes, Congress and Obama pay off the teachers' unions
Shikha Dalmia
April 20, 2009 - Obama on Education: Separate and Unequal
Shikha Dalmia
April 13, 2009, 4:31pm - Immigrants to America: Keep Your H1-Bs
Shikha Dalmia
April 10, 2009, 12:08pm - Medical Rationing Masquerading as Quality Care
Shikha Dalmia
April 9, 2009, 11:12am - The French Patient
Shikha Dalmia
April 6, 2009, 9:59pm - Checking Out Card Check
Shikha Dalmia
April 4, 2009, 12:28pm - GM Should File For Bankruptcy ASAP
Shikha Dalmia
April 2, 2009, 1:34am - GM Should Run To Bankruptcy Court
By avoiding bankruptcy, GM only risks trading union demands for federal tyranny
Shikha Dalmia
April 2, 2009 - Is India Really Immune to the Global Slowdown?
Shikha Dalmia
April 1, 2009, 4:49pm - India's Faulty Exceptionalism
India isn't suffering during this global slowdown, but needs more openness to trade
Shikha Dalmia
April 1, 2009 - Grab Your Wallets: Another Auto Bailout Cometh
Shikha Dalmia
March 25, 2009, 9:20pm - Bipolar Bad News for Global Warming Alarmists
Shikha Dalmia
March 23, 2009, 10:14pm - Goodbye Chang, So Long Singh
America's real immigration problem will soon be returning emigres
Shikha Dalmia
March 23, 2009 - Immigrants Have Never Been Less Interested in America
Much-needed, highly-skilled immigrants are returning to their home countries
Shikha Dalmia
March 23, 2009 - Taxation by Mis-Representation
Shikha Dalmia
March 21, 2009, 5:26pm - Massachusetts Health Care Experiment: Right Questions, Wrong Answers
Shikha Dalmia
March 20, 2009, 1:33pm - The Great Union Debate
Card check: unions' salvation?
Shikha Dalmia
February 6, 2009 - Government Intervention Might Delay the Economic Recovery
Every recession contains the seeds of its own regeneration
Shikha Dalmia
February 4, 2009 - Detroit Bets Its Future on Washington
Carmakers seek to please Congress instead of customers
Shikha Dalmia and Henry Payne
January 24, 2009 - Merry Christmas Chrysler
Shikha Dalmia
December 18, 2008, 8:39am - A Good Deal For Big Three Workers
Compared with Japanese counterparts, they pay less for health care
Shikha Dalmia
December 17, 2008 - How Unions Stop The Cars
Big Labor is a big problem for automakers' survival
Shikha Dalmia
December 12, 2008 - Arming India Against Terrorism
Relaxing gun control laws would be a good start
Shikha Dalmia
December 11, 2008 - It's 65 Million B.C. for the Detroit Three
Why use taxpayer money to postpone the inevitable?
Shikha Dalmia
December 2, 2008 - President-elect Obama's Budget Problems
Cure the economy or tackle climate change
Shikha Dalmia
November 26, 2008 - Daschle for Health: Another Bottom of the Barrel
Shikha Dalmia
November 18, 2008, 3:44pm - Obama's Cabinet: Part Two
Best and worst candidates for Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and Attorney General
Shikha Dalmia
November 18, 2008 - Eric Holder for AG? Civilian Libertarians Should Shudder
Shikha Dalmia
November 17, 2008, 2:14pm - Obama's Cabinet: Part Three
Picking Secretaries of Commerce, Energy, and Health and Human Services
Shikha Dalmia
November 17, 2008 - Obama's Cabinet: Hoping for an Empirical Presidency
Looking at the best and worst picks from a libertarian perspective
Shikha Dalmia
November 17, 2008 - Jennifer Granholm: Neither Change -- Nor What We Need
Shikha Dalmia
November 5, 2008, 3:47pm - A Toke for Liberty
Shikha Dalmia
November 4, 2008, 7:24am - Please, Jacob -- Obama is no Adam Smith
Shikha Dalmia
November 3, 2008, 12:07pm - Obama and Big Labor
Allowing unions to do away with secret ballots
Shikha Dalmia
October 29, 2008 - The (Carbon) Tax Man Cometh
Shikha Dalmia
October 19, 2008, 7:57pm - Universal Preschool Hasn't Delivered Results
Study after study shows no long-term gains for kids who attend universal preschool
Shikha Dalmia and Lisa Snell
October 17, 2008
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