Adam Cohen

The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

— Adam Cohen

Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

— Adam Cohen

State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

— Adam Cohen

There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.

— Adam Cohen

The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

— Adam Cohen

Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

— Adam Cohen

Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.

— Adam Cohen

The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.

— Adam Cohen

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

— Adam Cohen

In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

— Adam Cohen

There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.

— Adam Cohen

If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules…

— Adam Cohen

A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

— Adam Cohen

A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

— Adam Cohen

Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

— Adam Cohen

Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.

— Adam Cohen

Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed…

— Adam Cohen

In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie…

— Adam Cohen

Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for…

— Adam Cohen

The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion…

— Adam Cohen

If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law…

— Adam Cohen

It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is…

— Adam Cohen

A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But…

— Adam Cohen

Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects…

— Adam Cohen

There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging…

— Adam Cohen

Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.

— Adam Cohen

Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

— Adam Cohen

If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others,…

— Adam Cohen

Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

— Adam Cohen

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

— Adam Cohen

Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.

— Adam Cohen

The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church…

— Adam Cohen

People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart…

— Adam Cohen

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

— Adam Cohen

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out…

— Adam Cohen

If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

— Adam Cohen

'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

— Adam Cohen

After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

— Adam Cohen

A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'

— Adam Cohen

As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.

— Adam Cohen