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.
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Tibet Continues to Seethe »

By Amitabh Pal, October 5, 2011

To ensure that the Tibetans aren’t further alienated and radicalized, the Chinese regime needs to meaningfully negotiate.read more

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How Nonviolence Succeeds »

By Amitabh Pal, October 2011 issue

Amitabh Pal reviews Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan.read more

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U.S. Must Change Policy Toward Pakistan »

By Amitabh Pal, September 30, 2011

It must persuade Pakistan to abandon the lethal double game that it is playing. But saber-rattling won’t achieve that; nor will the cutting off of aid.read more

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Wangari Maathai »

By Amitabh Pal, May 2005 issue

An interview with Wangari Maathai from our May 2005 issue.read more

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Ignorance Rules as PA School District Cancels "Kismet" »

By Amitabh Pal, Setember 22, 2011

A play set in medieval Baghdad was somehow too close to 9/11 for the Richland School District.read more

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Watching Mitch Daniels in Action »

By Amitabh Pal, September 16, 2011

The Indiana governor would have been a superior presidential candidate to Perry. But that’s faint praise.read more

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U.N. Criticizes Austerity Path »

By Amitabh Pal, September 8, 2011

There is a clear road map to follow to get us out of the economic mess—if governments have enough guts to do so.read more

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Iraq Still in a Terrible Mess »

By Amitabh Pal, September 2, 2011

Just because U.S. soldiers aren’t dying in Iraq doesn’t mean all is well there.read more

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Invisible Victims »

By Amitabh Pal, July 2011 issue

The Deaths of Others is an incredibly important venture. I know of no other book that so comprehensively catalogues the victims of U.S. wars.read more

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Japanese Prime Minister Did One Thing Right »

By Amitabh Pal, August 26, 2011

Too bad it took a catastrophe of Fukushima’s magnitude to make the Japanese public and leadership reconsider the country's reliance on nuclear energy.read more

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The Gandhian Spirit is Alive in India—Sort Of »

By Amitabh Pal, August 19, 2011

Gandhi would perhaps be exasperated and happy—both at the same time.read more

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Whole Foods Caves in to Anti-Muslim Bigotry »

By Amitabh Pal, August 12, 2011

The grocery chain has done itself—and its clientele—a huge disfavor by capitulating to such vileness.read more

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Nuclear Power Losing Favor in Much of the World »

By Amitabh Pal, August 6, 2011

More countries need to take the right lessons from the Fukushima tragedy and renounce nuclear energy, once and for all.read more

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Muslim Americans Little Different from Other Americans »

By Amitabh Pal, August 3, 2011

In some ways though, Muslim Americans diverge in their attitudes—understandably so.read more

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In Norway Attack, the Media Jumped the Gun »

By Amitabh Pal, July 25, 2011

The New York Times and many other elite media outlets completely blew this one, quoting "authorities" on terrorism who proclaimed that Al Qaeda types were responsible.read more

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