Amitabh Pal

Amitabh Pal is the Managing Editor of The Progressive. He has interviewed the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter and John Kenneth Galbraith for the magazine. In addition to his role as the Managing Editor, Pal is the Co-Editor of the Progressive Media Project.
Twitter | RSS

A Ray of Hope for Burma? »

By Amitabh Pal, January 29, 2010

The decision to free Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in November offers a glimmer.read more

Video Games with a Progressive Message »

By Amitabh Pal, January 22, 2010

Wouldn’t you rather have people imagining that they’re intervening in Darfur rather than engaging in a grand theft of an automobile?read more

Google Move Highlights Hypocrisy of Internet Companies  »

By Amitabh Pal, January 13, 2010

Google’s possible closure of its operations in China will not atone for all the harm it—and other leading tech companies—have done there.read more

We Need a Global Tax on Financial Speculation »

By Amitabh Pal, December 11, 2009

“We need a shift in priorities in this country to ask not what America can do for Wall Street, but ask what Wall Street can do for America,” said Sen. Tom Harkin.read more

Obama Needs to Tackle South Asia as a Whole »

By Amitabh Pal, December 4, 2009

President Obama needs to resolve the problem of India and Pakistan before he can have any hope of success in Afghanistan.

In his speech on Tuesday, he wasn’t forthright about the nature of the problem.read more

25 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster, the suffering continues »

By Amitabh Pal, December 3, 2009

Dow Chemical needs to completely own up to its responsibility as Union Carbide’s parent company. The victims of Bhopal and their families have waited far too long and suffered far too much.read more

Triumphalism on Berlin Wall Anniversary Is Unfounded »

By Amitabh Pal, November 12, 2009

To give Reagan the central role in this saga completely ignores the part that dissidents within the Eastern Bloc and the peace movement in the West played in bringing down the system.read more

Crunch Time for Planet Earth »

By Amitabh Pal, November 6, 2009

The Obama Administration has been disappointing on global warming, and much of the American public is in full denial mode.read more

Pakistan Needs to Make Clean Break With Jihadists »

By Amitabh Pal, October 15, 2009

If recent events don’t force Pakistan’s establishment to sever its weirdly codependent ties with Islamic militancy, nothing will.read more

Let’s Think Rationally About Iran »

By Amitabh Pal, October 9, 2009

The latest moves of the regime—no matter how distressing—should not be mistakenly portrayed as a threat to the United States.read more

140 years after his birth, Gandhi has a message that resonates in Muslim societies »

By Amitabh Pal, September 25, 2009

It’s Mahatma Gandhi’s 140th birthday on Oct. 2, and his spirit of nonviolence lives on around the world, including in Muslim societies.read more

Catching a Utility Exec Off Base on Global Warming »

By Amitabh Pal, September 25, 2009

At a meeting of editorial writers, a local utility CEO tried to get away with a whopper.read more

Rajendra Pachauri Interview »

By Amitabh Pal, May 2009 Issue

“The U.S. has lost a lot of time—the world has lost a lot of time—in moving from fossil fuels to alternatives,”read more

What’s Wrong with Economists? »

By Amitabh Pal, September 10, 2009

This blind fealty to the market is not limited to the University of Chicago; it holds sway over almost all economics departments in the country.read more

New Japanese Leadership Causes Discomfort in the U.S. »

By Amitabh Pal, September 3, 2009

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama poses a challenge to the U.S. economic and military models. And The New York Times gasps.read more

Syndicate content