Adam Cohen is an American

United States

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 journalist and assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times

The New York Times

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. 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

Supreme Court of the United States

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, Internet privacy

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 and the Microsoft antitrust case, among other topics.

Prior to entering journalism, he was an education-reform lawyer, and a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center

Southern Poverty Law Center

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 in Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery, Alabama

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. He is the author of "The Perfect Store: Inside eBay" and co-author of "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Battle for Chicago and the Nation." A native of Manhattan

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, he is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Harvard College

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 and Harvard Law School

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External links

• "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', review of Nothing to Fear in the Oxonian Review