Amitabh Pal

The United States is the biggest merchant of death, accounting for almost one-third of the sales, with Russia close behind, having nearly one-fourth of the total. Why on Earth are countries buying up such junk, especially in hard times?read more

“Democracy” was never much more than an afterthought for the Bush team.read more

Know-nothings draw sustenance from a deep distrust of basic science in the United States, including on climate change.read more

Her criticism of Iran went over well in Saudi Arabia, which is actually a monarchy with no civil society and a global disseminator of Wahhabi Islam, the ideological fountainhead of Al Qaeda.read more

Can the Taliban be persuaded to join in the political process without steering the government in an even more fundamentalist and misogynist direction?read more

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