Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, 60 Minutes' first-ever legal analyst, and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. He is also chief analyst for CBS Radio News and has won a Murrow Award as one of the nation's leading legal journalists. More

Andrew Cohen is a Murrow Award-winning legal analyst and commentator. He covers legal events and issues for CBS News' 60 Minutes and CBS Radio News and its hundreds of affiliates around the country. He is also a contributing editor at The Atlantic, where he focuses his writing upon the intersection of law and politics.He is the winner of the American Bar Association’s 2012 Silver Gavel Award for his Atlantic commentary about the death penalty in America and the winner of the Humane Society’s 2012 Genesis Award for his coverage of the plight of America’s wild horses. A racehorse owner and breeder, Cohen also is a two-time winner of both the John Hervey and O’Brien Awards for distinguished commentary about horse racing. Follow Andrew on Twitter at @CBSAndrew.

The Man Who Could Save America's Wild Horses

The Man Who Could Save America's Wild Horses

Meet Raul Grijalva, a rumored potential nominee for Secretary of the Interior -- and dedicated friend of the nation's untamed herds. More »

Can Pro-Gun Legislators Make It a Crime to Enforce the Law?

Can Pro-Gun Legislators Make It a Crime to Enforce the Law?

Anticipating new federal rules, lawmakers in 16 states are finding ways to block their implementation. More »

Dark Sites: Distorted Reality, Willful Ignorance, and the War on Terror

Dark Sites: Distorted Reality, Willful Ignorance, and the War on Terror

Zero Dark Thirty may be a flawed film -- but no more or less so than our perceptions of how the war on terror was prosecuted in our name. More »

The Long Slog to Legalizing Marijuana in the U.S. Is Just Beginning

The Long Slog to Legalizing Marijuana in the U.S. Is Just Beginning

Popular support may be rising, but a ruling from a federal appeals court shows that Washington regulators still hold the power. More »

At Supreme Court, Gay Marriage Foes Make Their Strongest Case Yet

At Supreme Court, Gay Marriage Foes Make Their Strongest Case Yet

With an eye to persuading Justice Kennedy, Prop 8's supporters finally have laid out the best version of their argument. More »

The Big Issues Obama Left Out of His Inaugural Address

The Big Issues Obama Left Out of His Inaugural Address

The president's speech highlighted the gulf between the promise and the practice of America -- but it also showed how much narrower that gulf has become. More »

All the Pretty Horses: Ken Salazar to Leave Interior

All the Pretty Horses: Ken Salazar to Leave Interior

You know about the Gulf oil spill. You know about the relaxed regulatory oversight. But in the past four years, the Interior Department has also presided over a ruinous wild horse program. More »

The Struggle Over Gun Control in Congress Begins With These Two Men

The Struggle Over Gun Control in Congress Begins With These Two Men

One want to give more protections to gun manufacturers. The other would gut the 2005 law that already gives the industry unusual immunity. Who will prevail? More »

Speak, Clarence, Speak!

Speak, Clarence, Speak!

America waited seven years for Justice Clarence Thomas to speak from the bench -- and when he finally did, he didn't say much. More »

Can Ohio Handle the Truth About The Tyrone Noling Case?

Can Ohio Handle the Truth About The Tyrone Noling Case?

In the face of a demand for DNA testing of evidence, state lawyers contort themselves to keep a man on death row. More »

Sonia Sotomayor and the Real Lessons of Affirmative Action

Sonia Sotomayor and the Real Lessons of Affirmative Action

In a new memoir, the Supreme Court justice underlines the importance of optimism and perseverance. More »

The Day the Colorado Theater Suspect Made Puppet Motions

The Day the Colorado Theater Suspect Made Puppet Motions

Prosecutors have easily met their burden of establishing that James Holmes should be tried. What likely comes next, a mental illness defense, will be tougher for everyone to take. More »

Blood on the Tracks: The Aurora Theater Shooting Hearing

Blood on the Tracks: The Aurora Theater Shooting Hearing

Mass murder suspect James Holmes stared straight ahead in a Colorado court Monday morning, even when police witnesses broke down on the stand. More »

Held Without Retrial for 11,800 Days, Texas Inmate Still Waits for Justice

Held Without Retrial for 11,800 Days, Texas Inmate Still Waits for Justice

A convicted murderer was granted a new trial in 1980. He never got one. So what's he still doing in a state prison 32 years later? More »

The Death Penalty in America, 2012

The Death Penalty in America, 2012

A year's worth of injustices, botched trials -- and inspiring attempts to right the wrongs More »

Finally, Justice at Supermax? If Anyone Can Make the Right Call, It's This Judge

Finally, Justice at Supermax? If Anyone Can Make the Right Call, It's This Judge

He's tough. He's courageous. He tried Timothy McVeigh. Now Richard Matsch takes on another critical case: a civil rights lawsuit alleging prisoner abuse and neglect. More »

America's New War Over Voting Rights: The 2012 Election and Beyond

America's New War Over Voting Rights: The 2012 Election and Beyond

Complete coverage of the ruses, hearings, and legal battles that have plunged the U.S. into a civil rights crisis More »

The Human Casualties of the War on Drugs

The Human Casualties of the War on Drugs

Let's stop humoring ourselves, says the filmmaker Eugene Jarecki -- America can no longer afford to keep millions of its citizens locked away. Now he's taking his law-and-order documentary on the road. More »

The Law: 10 Days to Watch in 2013

The Law: 10 Days to Watch in 2013

From memorable anniversaries to game-changing new rulings, some dates to mark this coming year More »

George Will Gets (Almost) Everything Wrong About Voting Rights

George Will Gets (Almost) Everything Wrong About Voting Rights

The conservative columnist describes a world that's completely unrecognizable to anyone who followed the story of the 2012 election. More »

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