Quotes from Adam Cohen

Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.

For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.

The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.

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.

People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.

Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.

A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.

If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.

Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.

Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' delivers both.

If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.

When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

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.

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.