Adam Cohen is a book author, journalist, and lawyer. He is the author of five books: Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for an Unjust America; Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck; Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Making of Modern America; The Perfect Store: Inside eBay; and American Pharaoh: Richard J. Daley’s Battle for Chicago and the Nation (with Elizabeth Taylor).

He was a member of the New York Times Editorial Board for eight-and-half years, and Associate Editorial Page Editor of The New York Times.  Before that, he was a Senior Writer, Correspondent, and Chief Technology Writer, for Time magazine. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Atlantic, Time, Time Digital, Smithsonian, Harvard Magazine, the Harvard Law Review, and BallsandStrikes.

Prior to becoming a journalist, Cohen was a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, in Montgomery, Alabama. He also served for three years as a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where he taught Media Law and Internet Privacy.

He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review.