Shikha Dalmia was a senior analyst at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
A more complete archive of her work can be found here at Reason.com.
Dalmia is a columnist at The Week and writes regularly for Reason magazine. Her work also appears in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications such as The Times of London, Time, USA Today and The Daily Beast. She previously served as a columnist for Forbes and the Washington Examiner.
Dalmia's feature on sanctuary churches won the first prize in immigration reporting at the 2019 Southern California Journalism Awards. She 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 an award-winning editorial writer at the Detroit News, covering a variety of policy issues, including the environment, immigration, Social Security, 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 frequently appears on Fox Business Network, BBC Business Matters, MSNBC 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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No Child Left Behind Act: Keep it or Kill it?
Law has not lived up to grand expectations
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Indira and the Islamists
One vacation from democracy can be a huge setback for secularism
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Snow: President Bush is ‘Aggressively Curious’
Former press secretary says Bush invites debate, stands on principle
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Lessons From Abroad
School choice only helps education
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Going Protectionist Over a Fantasy Highway
Xenophobes see a threat to U.S. sovereignty in a Texas freeway project that would ease trade with Mexico
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Stop Government Takeover of Health Care
GOP's focus on illegal immigrants sidetracks fight on kids care program
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Employers and Workers Are Victims of New Immigration Policy
Bush's crackdown: all politics, no principle
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Health Care Costs Imperil Big Three
The UAW's health care dreams
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For Prosperity, Immigrants Need the Family
Letter to the Editor
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Lessons of a Serial Killing
We need to start searching for workable reforms to end the apartheid-like justice system
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This Fourth of July, Salute Rush Limbaugh
Why you should thank the people who killed the immigration bill