Michael Ratner

Michael Ratner is president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and co-author of The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld.

Currently

  • Don't Repackage Gitmo!

    November 25, 2008 Subscribe

    Shutting down Guantánamo is long overdue. We shouldn't recreate it by another name.

2006

  • Pushing Back on Detainee Act

    October 4, 2006

    As Republicans and Democrats voted to approve the Military Commission Act last week, those who love the law were mortified by its passage and angry at those who capitulated, but unwilling to give up.

  • For His Eyes Only: Bush's Secret Crimes

    July 2, 2006

    By blindly accepting Bush's expansion of state secrets claims, the courts are allowing the executive branch to operate above the law, putting the core principles of our democracy at risk.

  • Making the Case for Impeachment

    May 4, 2006

    The idea of impeaching the President is not such an unlikely notion after all.

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» State of Change

UN Pick Rice: Another Wrong-on-Iraq Nominee | She fell for Colin Powell's WMD fantasies, and ridiculed those who did not.
John Nichols
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» The Notion

DC to Delhi: Only Our Missiles -- Not Yours | What is Rice going to say to India: only DC not Delhi is allowed to bomb Pakistan?
Laura Flanders
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» Act Now!

World AIDS Day | How to help in the fight against the AIDS pandemic.
Peter Rothberg

» The Beat

Why Obama's Got "Complete Confidence" In Clinton | She won't bring the change his backers believed in. But Obama never really shared that belief.
John Nichols

» Editor's Cut

Robert Gates: Wrong Man for the Job | What we need after eight ruinous years is experience informed by good judgment.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama's New Team at State, Defense, NSC | And some comments about why John Brennan didn't get the CIA job.
Robert Dreyfuss

» Passing Through

Forget GM's Plan -- Where's The Government's Plan? | Create a demand for green cars.
Jane Hamsher

» Capitolism

Is Personnel Policy? | How much do personnel choices reflect the Obama administration's policy direction
Christopher Hayes

» And Another Thing

Election Updates --Good News and Not | Details on some ongoing stories
Katha Pollitt