Andrew Cohen
Andrew Cohen is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, and a legal analyst for 60 Minutes and CBS Radio News. He has covered the law and justice beat since 1997 and was the 2012 winner of the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award for commentary.
Latest articles by Andrew Cohen
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The wrongheaded law that's making your food less safefeature If the cows providing your milk were being drugged up and abused, you'd want to know, right?
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What the legal fight over contraception coverage says about the Supreme Courtfeature No one should be surprised when the court's conservatives impale this ObamaCare provision
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The most persuasive judicial response to voter suppression laws yetfeature Two judges — a Reagan conservative and an Obama liberal — stand up against the discriminatory laws sweeping America
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The sad saga of Ernest Cloudfeature Our country must stop ruining the lives of so many young black men
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The myth of good faith in our legal systemfeature The criminal justice system is worthy of trust and respect only to the extent that the men and women running it act honorably. Too often, they don't.
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Justice Scalia: Sometimes right, often wrong, never in doubtfeature Antonin Scalia is a striving, conniving political animal, a man as well suited for a career in talk radio as he has been in the law
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Why the Interior Department desperately needs beat reportersfeature The federal agency's treatment of wild horses has been scandalously poor. But you wouldn't know it from reading the newspaper.
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The troubling lessons of California's death penalty rulingfeature To truly ensure justice in America's largest state, the government will have to spend a fortune. And it most certainly won't.
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After Oklahoma's botched execution, here comes the cover-upfeature There is nothing independent about this "independent investigation"
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Yes, West Virginia, a private prison transfer is a terrible ideafeature The Mountain State is the latest to consider outsourcing its jailhouse duties
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Oklahoma just neutered its state Supreme Courtfeature Goodbye, judicial independence
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Don't punish lawyers for representing unpopular clientsfeature Everyone deserves a lawyer, no matter what the charges against them
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The deep shame of capital punishment in Americafeature Even if you support the death penalty, you shouldn't support the flawed way our government enacts it
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Texas has been holding this man hostage for 12,600 daysfeature This is what passes for justice in the Lone Star State
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This is the one area where America really needs more lawyersfeature A lack of public defenders is leaving millions of Americans without a competent, focused attorney
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The death of the presumption of innocencefeature A dirty secret of the American judicial system is that juries are hardly fair and impartial
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Welcome to Tennessee, where lawmakers are trying to kneecap judgesfeature So much for checks and balances
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Aereo at the Supreme Court: No matter what, broadcasters losefeature An industry born of innovation faces a serious challenge from a new innovator
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