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Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy. Adam Cohen
Democracy Vote Tough Fraud Laws ID Supporters Voter Afraid
Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic. Adam Cohen
Gun Epidemic Violence
The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully. Adam Cohen
Technology Degree Important Other Pandora Moral Seeing About Remarkable Because Integral Natives Story Which Avatar Show Fully Beings Thing Fundamentally Necessity
The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone. Adam Cohen
Gone Worst Excess Era Dot-Com
In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created. Adam Cohen
World Internet First Control Would Perfect Perfect World Put Information Created Users
The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much. Adam Cohen
Impossible First Though About Know First Thing Understand How How Much Lot Surveillance Going The First Thing Places Public Video Much Thing
When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed. Adam Cohen
Government People Crime Long Few Destroyed Only Investigate Takes Days Been Report May After Places Public Video Should Reasonably Images Kept Needed
A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court. Adam Cohen
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming. Adam Cohen
Health Care Run Record Could Health Care Insurance Insurance Companies Private Private Insurance Which Companies Publicly Compete Program
The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market. Adam Cohen
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty. Adam Cohen
Poverty Older Living Final Security Years Option American Public Social Rescued Social Security
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue. Adam Cohen
Rights Age Women Rights Issue Minorities Civil Civil Rights Issue Discrimination Against Racial Illegal Compared Second-Class
To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high. Adam Cohen
Life Home Generation Unhappy Men Down Savings Mad Mad Men High Plunging Beaten Retirement Message Equally Always Meter Were Been Unemployment Offers Mounting American Predecessors American Life Skyrocketing Set
After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel. Adam Cohen
Government You Travel Pay Records No Reason After Bill Your Reason Keep
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. Adam Cohen
Constitution Strict Free Insist Giving Free Speech Conservatives Way Right Way Magic Potato More Like Terms Judges Due Precise Process While Chip Meaning Activists Right Interpret Speech
It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote. Adam Cohen
Vote Congress Minorities Constitutional More Area Protecting Than Authority Which Act Hard Express Right Imagine
Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both. Adam Cohen
Marriage Pride Vanquished Both Pride And Prejudice End Romances Being Stories Prejudice Zombie Zombies
Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers. Adam Cohen
Good Society Vampires Plunder Good Times Investment Shares Like Deals Demons Off Times Managers Bankers Themselves Who Fund
Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling. Adam Cohen
Big Though Financially Winners Struggling Remain Layoffs Mass Most Employer Losers Produce Workers Who Even
One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees. Adam Cohen
Work Employees Back Way Would Would-Be One-Way More Layoffs Hours Reduce Spreading Available Cut Among Need
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings. Adam Cohen
Depression Few Find Silver Does Least Subjects Times Hard Hard Times
Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it. Adam Cohen
Government Voting National Presidential Protect Elections Should Congressional Right
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. Adam Cohen
Government Great Facebook Social Media Great Deal Twitter Other See Able About Outlets Deal Wants Information Social Us Media
DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter. Adam Cohen
Privacy Email Like Lot Same Should Letter
When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns. Adam Cohen
People Gun Lobby Logic Guns Laws Prevent Clear Like Does Legislation Owning Fights Using
The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously. Adam Cohen
Seriously Power Take Senate Refuse Confirm Should Congressional Who
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