Amitabh Pal

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

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’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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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