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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
Adam Cohen
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In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
Adam Cohen
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Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.
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For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.
Adam Cohen -
There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
Adam Cohen
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Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
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Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.
Adam Cohen -
Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
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Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.
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Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
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The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
Adam Cohen
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
Adam Cohen -
One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
Adam Cohen