Adam Cohen Quotes
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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.
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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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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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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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The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
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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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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.
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If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'
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The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.
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If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.
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For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.
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The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.
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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 new jobs.
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Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
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The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
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Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
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There is no way to undo what happened in the Zimmerman-Martin encounter, but some good can still come of it: it could lead states to repeal their misguided 'Stand your ground' laws.