Adam Cohen

There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial. ”

Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet. ”

If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime. ”

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. ”

As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form. ”

Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country. ”

We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens. ”

A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections. ”

Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people. ”

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. ”