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Adam Cohen

• October 18 -- Making Ted Kennedy Look Moderate
Editorial writer Adam Cohen lays out the fearsome fruits of a potential second term for Bush: "Abortion might be a crime in most states. Gay people could be thrown in prison for having sex in their homes. States might be free to become mini-theocracies, endorsing Christianity and using tax money to help spread the gospel."

• March 2 -- Cleland Wuz Robbed!
Editorial writer Adam Cohen spreads paranoia in a story on electronic voting machines, hinting that just maybe there's some doubt about two Republican Senate wins in 2002.

• January 14 -- A "Mean Mood" in US Knocks Down Liberal Legislation
Liberal editorial writer Adam Cohen laments the "mean mood" that's settled on the country and bashes a Supreme Court that's "made it easier to discriminate against older workers, blind people and cancer victims."

• November 12 -- Dead Poets Society Takes Bush on Over Iraq
Adam Cohen salutes World War I poet Wilfred Owen in order to scorn Bush's conduct of the Iraq war: "Owen was right that an honorable approach to war requires both ably leading troops on the battlefield, and reporting honestly what occurs there. The Bush administration, however, is resisting this honorable approach….He avoids mentioning the American dead...”

• October 20 -- Times Editor Explains Tax Policy to Alabamans
Thank goodness Adam Cohen is around to tell Alabamans how to vote!

• October 13 -- Adam Cohen's Charming Conservative Assumptions
Writing about an Indian-American Republican's first-round win in the Louisiana governor's race, editorialist Adam Cohen declares: "If even a small percentage of white conservatives hold his ethnicity against him, it could cost him the election."

• September 22 -- Cucumber-Flinging Monkeys Fight for Fairness
Adam Cohen’s editorial summarizes a study of the group behavior of capuchin monkeys: “In a week when fairness was so evidently on the ropes--from the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancún, which poor nations walked out of in frustration, to the latest issue of Forbes, reporting that the richest 400 Americans are worth $955 billion--the capuchin monkeys offered a glimmer of hope from the primate gene pool.”

• August 19 -- Adam Cohen’s Constitutional Wrongs
An editorial by Adam Cohen uses a tour of Philadelphia’s new Constitution museum to accuse Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas of scuttling constitutional rights. A former lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Cohen’s one of a few Times editorial board members with liberal backgrounds.

• July 8 -- “Crime Falling, Yet Prisons Still Filling,” Part XVIII
An editorial by Adam Cohen repeats a cherished bit of Times crime naivete: “After a three-decade surge, which has continued even as crime rates have dropped…”