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Adam Cohen (journalist)

February 16, 2024

For other people with the same name, see Adam Cohen.

Adam Seth Cohen (born c. 1962)[1] is an American journalist, author, lawyer, and former assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times.[1] He also worked in the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Adam S. Cohen
Born1962 (age 61–62)
EducationHarvard University (BA, JD)
Occupation(s)Journalist and author
Notable creditThe New York Times

Education edit

Cohen graduated from Bronx High School of Science. He obtained his bachelor's degree in the interdisciplinary honors Social Studies program from Harvard College in 1984 and received his J.D. degree in 1987 from Harvard Law School where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review.[1]

Career edit

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Cohen clerked for Judge Abner Mikva on the federal D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and then served as a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama.[2] Cohen subsequently worked as a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in New York City.[3] While at the ACLU, he focused on school finance and educational equity issues and was part of the legal team that brought an Alabama state court class action in 1991, claiming that the public school system violated the state constitution by failing to provide an equitable, adequate or "liberal" education.[4] In 1993 the state courts ruled in favor of the ACLU and the children plaintiffs in Harper v. Hunt, finding that poor schools were not equitably funded.[5] The lower court decision was reviewed in the federal courts.[5] During his tenure as Alabama attorney general, Jeff Sessions, later President Donald Trump's attorney general of the United States, fought against the findings of the Alabama courts.[5] Sessions was ultimately successful in his campaign to prevent schools in poorer Alabama communities from being funded at the same level as schools in wealthier districts.[5]

After leaving the ACLU, Cohen spent seven years as a senior writer for Time magazine, until he left to become a member of The New York Times editorial board.[6] During his tenure at the Times, from 2002 until 2010, Cohen's editorials focused on tech and legal affairs.[7] After leaving The New York Times, he became a lecturer in law at Yale Law School and a fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, teaching courses in media and internet law.[7] He also wrote a legal column which appeared in Time.com every Monday.[8]

Beginning in 2011, Cohen also served as special policy advisor to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo.[9][10] In 2014 Cohen joined New York City Mayor de Blasio's administration as chief speechwriter.[11] In 2015 he moved to the mayor's Center for Economic Opportunity, as a special policy advisor.[12] Along with Elizabeth Taylor, the literary editor of the Chicago Tribune and Cohen's co-author of American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Battle for Chicago and the Nation, Cohen is also co-editor of The National Book Review.[13][14] In 2017, Cohen was a Pulitzer Prize juror in the category of criticism[15] and in 2018 he was a juror in the category of Feature Writing.[16]

Cohen is the author of five books. The most recent, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, argues that the United States Supreme Court turned away from protecting the poor and weak and from advancing a more just and equal society across broad and diverse areas of law (education, poverty, campaign finance, democracy, workers' rights, corporations, and criminal justice), reversing the course the law had been on under the jurisprudence of the Warren Court.[17] This reversal occurred in the aftermath of Chief Justice Earl Warren's retirement and President Richard Nixon's successful bid—deemed a ruthless and baseless "squeeze play" by Cohen—to force liberal Justice Abe Fortas off the court by threatening federal investigations of Fortas and his wife.[18] Nixon went on to appoint four conservative justices (new Chief Justice Warren Burger, future Chief Justice William Rehnquist, then-conservative Associate Justice Harry Blackmun, and Associate Justice Lewis Powell). Calling the book "impressive and necessary", The New York Times praises Cohen's "sweeping review" as showing that "the Court has repeatedly engaged in judicial activism against the poor", aggressively exacerbating income inequality in the United States.[19] "Cohen sums up the result of fifty years of jurisprudence in the areas he explores, writing that 'the post-1969 Court has been working unrelentingly to protect the wealthy and powerful, and to make [the United States] more hierarchical and exclusionary - and it has been succeeding. When it comes to the law, and its many consequences for society, we are all living in Nixon's America now.'"[17]

Asked to explain how he reconciles the post-Warren Court's progressive-leaning decisions on gay rights (marriage equality), curbing executive powers during wartime and (some) reproductive freedom decisions with his narrative of a reactionary court, Cohen responded, "Well, you might just say that in a capitalist system like ours, wealth and money and the current income and wealth distribution are really where the rubber hits the road. Look at how corporations actually have gotten a lot better on things like affirmative action, inclusion, gay rights, and things like that, but they haven't gotten good at distributing their money to the poor. That's really the thing that separates the corporate mentality from a more progressive outlook."[20]

In April 2023, in response to reports of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's failure to disclose a series of luxurious presents and benefits he received from conservative activist billionaire Harlan Crow, Cohen penned an Op Ed in The New York Times, drawing an unfavorable comparison to the bipartisan agreement on ethics that had marked the resignation of Justice Abe Fortas from the Supreme Court in 1969.[21]

Cohen's previous book, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, was named to the longlist for the 2016 National Book Award,[22] and is slated to be made into an Amazon film, Unfit, starring Dakota Johnson.[23][24]

Books edit

  • Co-author of American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (2000)[1]
  • The Perfect Store: Inside E-Bay (2002)[1]
  • Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America (2009)[8]
  • Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, Penguin Press (Mar. 1, 2016)[25]
  • Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, Penguin Press (publication date Feb. 25, 2020)[26]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e "Times Appointment". The New York Times. 28 February 2002. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Times Appointment". The New York Times. 2002-02-28. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  3. ^ Hershkoff, Helen; Cohen, Adam S. (1992). "School Choice and the Lessons of Choctaw County". Yale Law & Policy Review. 10: 1–29.
  4. ^ Hershkoff, Helen (1998). "School Finance Reform and the Alabama Experience". In Gittell, Marilyn (ed.). Strategies for School Equity: Creating Productive Schools in a Just Society. Yale University Press. pp. 24–39.
  5. ^ a b c d Gabrielson, Ryan (2017-01-31). "How Jeff Sessions Helped Kill Equitable School Funding in Alabama". AlterNet. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  6. ^ "Playbook: Cuomo adviser, NYT/Time alumn, to be mayor's speechwriter; reality show on NYC restaurants". Politico PRO. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  7. ^ a b Grant, Drew. "New York Times Writer. Editorial Board Member". Media lite. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  8. ^ a b "Adam Cohen". Time Ideas. 6 October 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  9. ^ "Playbook: Cuomo adviser, NYT/Time alumn, to be mayor's speechwriter; reality show on NYC restaurants". Politico PRO. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  10. ^ Confessore, Nicholas (2010-12-09). "Gov.-Elect Andrew Cuomo Names Top Aides". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  11. ^ "Playbook: Cuomo adviser, NYT/Time alumn, to be mayor's speechwriter; reality show on NYC restaurants". Politico PRO. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  12. ^ (PDF). CEO Annual Report. 2015. Appendix C. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  13. ^ "About Us". The National Book Review. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  14. ^ Tribune, Chicago. "Elizabeth Taylor, literary editor". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  15. ^ "The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  16. ^ "The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2020. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  17. ^ a b Cohen, Adam (2020). Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 9780735221505.
  18. ^ Stern, Mark Joseph (2020-01-29). "How the Supreme Court Contributed to Growing Inequality". The American Prospect. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  19. ^ Yoshino, Kenji (2020-02-21). "A Supreme Court for the Rich". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  20. ^ Lithwick, Dahlia (March 29, 2021). "The Supreme Court Was Once a Champion of the Poor". Slate. from the original on 2021-03-29. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  21. ^ Cohen, Adam (April 11, 2023). "54 Years Ago, a Supreme Court Justice Was Forced to Quit for Behavior Arguably Less Egregious Than Thomas's". The New York Times. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  22. ^ "2016 National Book Awards Longlist (40 books)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  23. ^ "Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, by Adam Cohen, 2016 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction". www.nationalbook.org. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  24. ^ McNary, Dave (2017-03-07). "Dakota Johnson to Star in Courtroom Drama 'Unfit' for Amazon". Variety. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  25. ^ "Imbeciles". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  26. ^ "Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America | IndieBound.org". www.indiebound.org. Retrieved 2020-02-21.

External links edit

  • Author Website
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • "The Founders Had an Idea for Handling Alberto Gonzales" by Adam Cohen, Editorial Observer, The New York Times, August 19, 2007
  • The Perfect Store Book Review at Letters on Pages
  • [usurped], review of Nothing to Fear in the Oxonian Review

February 16, 2024
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For other people with the same name see Adam Cohen Adam Seth Cohen born c 1962 1 is an American journalist author lawyer and former assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times 1 He also worked in the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Adam S CohenBorn1962 age 61 62 EducationHarvard University BA JD Occupation s Journalist and authorNotable creditThe New York Times Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Books 4 References 5 External linksEducation editCohen graduated from Bronx High School of Science He obtained his bachelor s degree in the interdisciplinary honors Social Studies program from Harvard College in 1984 and received his J D degree in 1987 from Harvard Law School where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review 1 Career editAfter graduating from Harvard Law School Cohen clerked for Judge Abner Mikva on the federal D C Circuit Court of Appeals and then served as a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery Alabama 2 Cohen subsequently worked as a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU in New York City 3 While at the ACLU he focused on school finance and educational equity issues and was part of the legal team that brought an Alabama state court class action in 1991 claiming that the public school system violated the state constitution by failing to provide an equitable adequate or liberal education 4 In 1993 the state courts ruled in favor of the ACLU and the children plaintiffs in Harper v Hunt finding that poor schools were not equitably funded 5 The lower court decision was reviewed in the federal courts 5 During his tenure as Alabama attorney general Jeff Sessions later President Donald Trump s attorney general of the United States fought against the findings of the Alabama courts 5 Sessions was ultimately successful in his campaign to prevent schools in poorer Alabama communities from being funded at the same level as schools in wealthier districts 5 After leaving the ACLU Cohen spent seven years as a senior writer for Time magazine until he left to become a member of The New York Times editorial board 6 During his tenure at the Times from 2002 until 2010 Cohen s editorials focused on tech and legal affairs 7 After leaving The New York Times he became a lecturer in law at Yale Law School and a fellow at the Yale Information Society Project teaching courses in media and internet law 7 He also wrote a legal column which appeared in Time com every Monday 8 Beginning in 2011 Cohen also served as special policy advisor to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo 9 10 In 2014 Cohen joined New York City Mayor de Blasio s administration as chief speechwriter 11 In 2015 he moved to the mayor s Center for Economic Opportunity as a special policy advisor 12 Along with Elizabeth Taylor the literary editor of the Chicago Tribune and Cohen s co author of American Pharaoh Mayor Richard J Daley His Battle for Chicago and the Nation Cohen is also co editor of The National Book Review 13 14 In 2017 Cohen was a Pulitzer Prize juror in the category of criticism 15 and in 2018 he was a juror in the category of Feature Writing 16 Cohen is the author of five books The most recent Supreme Inequality The Supreme Court s Fifty Year Battle for a More Unjust America argues that the United States Supreme Court turned away from protecting the poor and weak and from advancing a more just and equal society across broad and diverse areas of law education poverty campaign finance democracy workers rights corporations and criminal justice reversing the course the law had been on under the jurisprudence of the Warren Court 17 This reversal occurred in the aftermath of Chief Justice Earl Warren s retirement and President Richard Nixon s successful bid deemed a ruthless and baseless squeeze play by Cohen to force liberal Justice Abe Fortas off the court by threatening federal investigations of Fortas and his wife 18 Nixon went on to appoint four conservative justices new Chief Justice Warren Burger future Chief Justice William Rehnquist then conservative Associate Justice Harry Blackmun and Associate Justice Lewis Powell Calling the book impressive and necessary The New York Times praises Cohen s sweeping review as showing that the Court has repeatedly engaged in judicial activism against the poor aggressively exacerbating income inequality in the United States 19 Cohen sums up the result of fifty years of jurisprudence in the areas he explores writing that the post 1969 Court has been working unrelentingly to protect the wealthy and powerful and to make the United States more hierarchical and exclusionary and it has been succeeding When it comes to the law and its many consequences for society we are all living in Nixon s America now 17 Asked to explain how he reconciles the post Warren Court s progressive leaning decisions on gay rights marriage equality curbing executive powers during wartime and some reproductive freedom decisions with his narrative of a reactionary court Cohen responded Well you might just say that in a capitalist system like ours wealth and money and the current income and wealth distribution are really where the rubber hits the road Look at how corporations actually have gotten a lot better on things like affirmative action inclusion gay rights and things like that but they haven t gotten good at distributing their money to the poor That s really the thing that separates the corporate mentality from a more progressive outlook 20 In April 2023 in response to reports of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas s failure to disclose a series of luxurious presents and benefits he received from conservative activist billionaire Harlan Crow Cohen penned an Op Ed in The New York Times drawing an unfavorable comparison to the bipartisan agreement on ethics that had marked the resignation of Justice Abe Fortas from the Supreme Court in 1969 21 Cohen s previous book Imbeciles The Supreme Court American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck was named to the longlist for the 2016 National Book Award 22 and is slated to be made into an Amazon film Unfit starring Dakota Johnson 23 24 Books editCo author of American Pharaoh Mayor Richard J Daley His Battle for Chicago and the Nation 2000 1 The Perfect Store Inside E Bay 2002 1 Nothing to Fear FDR s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America 2009 8 Imbeciles The Supreme Court American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck Penguin Press Mar 1 2016 25 Supreme Inequality The Supreme Court s Fifty Year Battle for a More Unjust America Penguin Press publication date Feb 25 2020 26 References edit a b c d e Times Appointment The New York Times 28 February 2002 Retrieved 20 May 2013 Times Appointment The New York Times 2002 02 28 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2017 04 11 Hershkoff Helen Cohen Adam S 1992 School Choice and the Lessons of Choctaw County Yale Law amp Policy Review 10 1 29 Hershkoff Helen 1998 School Finance Reform and the Alabama Experience In Gittell Marilyn ed Strategies for School Equity Creating Productive Schools in a Just Society Yale University Press pp 24 39 a b c d Gabrielson Ryan 2017 01 31 How Jeff Sessions Helped Kill Equitable School Funding in Alabama AlterNet Retrieved 2017 04 07 Playbook Cuomo adviser NYT Time alumn to be mayor s speechwriter reality show on NYC restaurants Politico PRO Retrieved 2017 04 11 a b Grant Drew New York Times Writer Editorial Board Member Media lite Retrieved 20 May 2013 a b Adam Cohen Time Ideas 6 October 2011 Retrieved 20 May 2013 Playbook Cuomo adviser NYT Time alumn to be mayor s speechwriter reality show on NYC restaurants Politico PRO Retrieved 11 April 2017 Confessore Nicholas 2010 12 09 Gov Elect Andrew Cuomo Names Top Aides The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2017 04 11 Playbook Cuomo adviser NYT Time alumn to be mayor s speechwriter reality show on NYC restaurants Politico PRO Retrieved 2017 04 07 CEO NY Center for Economic Opportunity PDF CEO Annual Report 2015 Appendix C Archived from the original PDF on 23 February 2017 Retrieved 11 April 2017 About Us The National Book Review Retrieved 2017 04 11 Tribune Chicago Elizabeth Taylor literary editor chicagotribune com Retrieved 11 April 2017 The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism www pulitzer org Retrieved 11 April 2017 The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing The Pulitzer Prizes 2020 Retrieved 2020 02 22 a b Cohen Adam 2020 Supreme Inequality The Supreme Court s Fifty Year Battle for a More Unjust America New York Penguin Press ISBN 9780735221505 Stern Mark Joseph 2020 01 29 How the Supreme Court Contributed to Growing Inequality The American Prospect Retrieved 2020 02 21 Yoshino Kenji 2020 02 21 A Supreme Court for the Rich The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2020 02 22 Lithwick Dahlia March 29 2021 The Supreme Court Was Once a Champion of the Poor Slate Archived from the original on 2021 03 29 Retrieved April 2 2021 Cohen Adam April 11 2023 54 Years Ago a Supreme Court Justice Was Forced to Quit for Behavior Arguably Less Egregious Than Thomas s The New York Times Retrieved April 18 2023 2016 National Book Awards Longlist 40 books www goodreads com Retrieved 2020 02 21 Imbeciles The Supreme Court American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen 2016 National Book Award Longlist Nonfiction www nationalbook org Retrieved 2017 04 11 McNary Dave 2017 03 07 Dakota Johnson to Star in Courtroom Drama Unfit for Amazon Variety Retrieved 2017 04 07 Imbeciles PenguinRandomhouse com Retrieved 21 March 2016 Supreme Inequality The Supreme Court s Fifty Year Battle for a More Unjust America IndieBound org www indiebound org Retrieved 2020 02 21 External links editAuthor Website Appearances on C SPAN The Founders Had an Idea for Handling Alberto Gonzales by Adam Cohen Editorial Observer The New York Times August 19 2007 The Perfect Store Book Review at Letters on Pages One Hundred Days Until Disappointment usurped review of Nothing to Fear in the Oxonian Review Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Adam Cohen journalist amp oldid 1197838470, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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