ADAM COHEN, a former member of the New York Times editorial board and senior writer for Time magazine, is the authorof Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America and the forthcoming Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty Year Battle for a More Unjust America. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he was president of volume 100 of the Harvard Law Review.
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Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of ... SEE MORE