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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Blogs

» The Beat

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
47 Comments

» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
91 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
69 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
61 Comments