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Adam Cohen is an American journalist and assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times. Cohen is a lawyer and author, with a particular interest in legal issues, politics and technology. Before joining the Times editorial board in 2002, he was a senior writer at Time Magazine, where he wrote about the Supreme Court, Internet privacy and the Microsoft antitrust case, among other topics.

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Editorial Observer: After 40 Years, Age Discrimination Still Gets Second-Class Treatment

After working for a vending machine company for more than 20 years, James O’Connor was replaced with someone younger. He sued. He testified that his boss had disparaged older workers, including saying two weeks before he was fired “O’Connor, you are ...

From ADAM COHEN, International Herald Tribune,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Lyndon B. Johnson,  Thurgood Marshall

Editorial Observer: ‘Mad Men’ and the Thrill of Other People’s Misery in Sour Times

During the Great Depression, America entertained itself with Busby Berkeley musicals, movies about the madcap adventures of the rich and other happy escapism. It is not exactly a trend, but one well-watched and critically acclaimed television show is ...

From ADAM COHEN, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Don Draper,  Richard Nixon,  White House,  Marilyn Monroe

Editorial Observer: A Casualty of the Technology Revolution: ‘Locational Privacy’

When I woke up the other day, I went straight to my computer to catch up on the news and read e-mail. About 20 minutes later, I walked half a block to the gym, where I exercised for 45 minutes. I took the C train to The New York Times building, and ...

From ADAM COHEN, International Herald Tribune,  31 Aug 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  AT&T Inc.,  Electronic Frontier Foundation

Zachary Adam Cohen: What Do Don Draper and American Food Have In Common?

I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It's not just that it produces unhealthy food, mishandles waste and overuses antibiotics in ways that harm us all. More fundamentally, it has no soul. More than you ...

From ZACHARY ADAM COHEN, Huffington Post,  25 Aug 2009
Related Topics: AMC,  Jon Hamm,  Michelle Obama,  White House,  Wal-Mart

Zachary Adam Cohen: Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: Marketing Genius or Out-of-Touch Schmuck?

Not that I'm exactly sweating for the fortunes of Whole Foods. Quick: name the last time a consumer boycott achieved a result of any significance. (Getting American Airlines to stop using animals in its ads doesn't count.) I have to go all the way ...

From ZACHARY ADAM COHEN, Huffington Post,  19 Aug 2009
Related Topics: John Mackey,  Megan McArdle,  American Airlines,  U.S. Republican Party,  Safeway Inc.

Editorial Observer: A Century-Old Principle: Keep Corporate Money Out of Elections

The founders were wary of corporate influence on politics and their rhetoric sometimes got pretty heated. In an 1816 letter, Thomas Jefferson declared his hope to “crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to ...

From ADAM COHEN, International Herald Tribune,  10 Aug 2009
Related Topics: William Jennings Bryan,  Thomas Jefferson,  William McKinley,  Mark Hanna,  John McCain

Zachary Adam Cohen: Who Owns Good Food?

"It might have something to do with the circumstance that the conservatives tend to think the Earth is 6000 years old and the moon is made of green cheese we can have for free if we only let the banks freely distribute money to the corporations who ...

From ZACHARY ADAM COHEN, Huffington Post,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Ina Garten,  Natural Resources Defense Council

Editorial Observer: A New Kind of Memorial for the Internet Age

I got a Facebook friend request a while back from Luke Cole, who had attended law school with me. We were never close, but I liked him. He was smart and funny and he cared about important things. We had lost touch, but once I friended him back I ...

From ADAM COHEN, International Herald Tribune,  24 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

Where are the Conservatives in the Local, Sustainable Movement?

The traditional conservative will want to take a stand for the mom-and-pop cheese maker over the pasteurized processed food disgorged by the factory and sold cheaply. I started looking into how the government regulates the meat industry. It was ...

From ZACHARY ADAM COHEN, Huffington Post,  24 Jul 2009
Related Topics: McDonald's,  Thomas Jefferson,  Alice Waters,  U.S. Republican Party

Editorial Observer: White Firefighters, Black Airline Passengers and Judge Sotomayor

George and Judy King were bumped from a flight to the Bahamas. They claimed that white passengers who did not have confirmed reservations were allowed on while their own boarding passes were confiscated. The Kings sued for discrimination. A federal ...

From ADAM COHEN, The New York Times,  25 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Sonia Sotomayor,  Barack Obama,  Karl Rove

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