Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price. — Adam Cohen Clear Copy Share Image
With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions… — Adam Cohen Awareness Copy Share Image
Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both. — Adam Cohen Austen Copy Share Image
Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people… — Adam Cohen Bad Copy Share Image
State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new. — Adam Cohen Church Copy Share Image
There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial. — Adam Cohen About Copy Share Image
The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide. — Adam Cohen Bad Copy Share Image
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life. — Adam Cohen Better Copy Share Image
There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the… — Adam Cohen Fraud Copy Share Image
Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us - and the government wants… — Adam Cohen Government Copy Share Image
A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.' — Adam Cohen Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel. — Adam Cohen Government Copy Share Image
If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise. — Adam Cohen Cars Copy Share Image
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue. — Adam Cohen Age Copy Share Image
If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human… — Adam Cohen Apes Copy Share Image
Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while… — Adam Cohen Constitution Copy Share Image
The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on… — Adam Cohen Impossible Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show… — Adam Cohen Avatar Copy Share Image
Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from… — Adam Cohen Books Copy Share Image
It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square… — Adam Cohen Bridges Copy Share Image
There is no way to undo what happened in the Zimmerman-Martin encounter, but some good can still come of it: it could… — Adam Cohen Come Copy Share Image
It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake.… — Adam Cohen Compromise Copy Share Image
Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects… — Adam Cohen Business Copy Share Image
Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people. — Adam Cohen Good faith Copy Share Image
Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people. — Adam Cohen About Copy Share Image
It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out… — Adam Cohen 1950s Copy Share Image
If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules… — Adam Cohen Control Copy Share Image
There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law. — Adam Cohen Bench Copy Share Image
A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming. — Adam Cohen Care Copy Share Image
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line. — Adam Cohen Families Copy Share Image
Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling. — Adam Cohen Big Copy Share Image
The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never… — Adam Cohen Communication Copy Share Image
The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of… — Adam Cohen Economics Copy Share Image
Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty. — Adam Cohen Final Copy Share Image
As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions. — Adam Cohen Cars Copy Share Image
Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal. — Adam Cohen Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public… — Adam Cohen Corporations Copy Share Image
As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form. — Adam Cohen First place Copy Share Image
