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  • Shikha Dalmia: Will liberals hold Obama accountable for civil liberties violations?

    Shikha Dalmia

    Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

    President Obama is dealing with revelations about the Justice Department's spying on journalists and other scandals by changing the subject. In a major national security address Thursday, he announced the phaseout of the Guantanamo prison facility and the CIA's oversight of the drone program....

  • Shikha Dalmia: 'Scientific' liberals should accept results of science

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

    Those who deny that germs cause disease shouldn't call their opponents anti-science. But that's exactly what HBO comedian and germ-theory-denier Bill Maher routinely calls Republicans to hearty applause. The core trait of a scientific mind is that when its commitments clash with evidence,...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Conservative nonsense on immigration reform

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    Remember the story about the drunk who loses his car keys in the forest but looks for them under a lamp post because that's where the light is? Conservative calls to fight terrorism in the wake of the Boston attack by ditching immigration reform make just as much sense. The difference is...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Obamacare is Obama's Iraq War

    Shikha Dalmia

    Updated: Thu, Mar 28, 2013

    Not even the most ardent defenders of Obamacare -- aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- claim anymore that the law will lower health coverage costs for Americans. How, then, will it achieve universal coverage, its central goal? The short answer is, it won't. Last week, major...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Democratic obstacles to immigration reform

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Thu, Mar 14, 2013

    On immigration reform, Republicans are supposed to be the bad guys and Democrats the good guys. Republicans think only about their own political interests, Democrats only about poor immigrants and the country. The part about Republicans is certainly true. But the part about Democrats? Not...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Stop sequester by collecting bailout dollars

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Thu, Feb 28, 2013

    President Obama has been jetting around the country, warning of untold pain and suffering starting today when the sequester budget cuts kick in. But if he really buys his own gloom and doom, there is a way he can avoid major cuts for the rest of the fiscal year: Recall the outstanding Troubled...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Obamacare's Medicaid expansion is an offer states can't refuse

    Shikha Dalmia

    Updated: Fri, Feb 15, 2013

    Lingering hopes that state resistance would yet derail Obamacare were recently dealt a major and possibly fatal blow. Unable to withstand the law's powerful and perverse incentives, six Republican governors dropped their opposition and agreed to cram more people into Medicaid. Unless the law...

  • Shikha Dalmia: Our coming immigration challenge is not having enough foreigners

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Thu, Jan 31, 2013

    America's future problem won't be too many immigrants, but too few. A "gray tsunami" is coming as the global population simultaneously shrinks and ages, producing an acute worldwide shortage of working-age people. Immigration reformers must position America now to effectively compete for...

  • GOP: Big Labor's willing dupes on immigration

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Thu, Jan 17, 2013

    President Obama will soon propose reforms that will make our current immigration system less of a living hell for employers and foreign workers. Before restrictionist Republicans -- who have killed every recent reform effort -- get their knickers in a knot, they should consider that the status...

  • Don't fear the debt limit

    Shikha Dalmia

    Published: Thu, Dec 20, 2012

    Whenever the establishment left and right agrees on something, expect a big assault on our democracy. That is the case with the emerging consensus that the debt ceiling should be rescinded as part of the "fiscal cliff" negotiations so that spending hawks can't later hold the economy hostage to...


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