Adam Cohen Quotes
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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.
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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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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.
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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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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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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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Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us - and the government wants to be able to see it.
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The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.
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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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Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
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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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Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.
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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.
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When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.
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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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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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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 blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.