Andrew Cohen
justadcohen.bsky.social
Andrew Cohen
@justadcohen.bsky.social
Dad, husband, horseman. Editor-at-large, TheMarshallProject; curator of TMP's "Opening Statement" newsletter. Keeping Pace columnist at Paulick Report. Formerly legal analyst and columnist @CBSNews and @BrennanCenter @TheAtlantic.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
New @paulickreport on a surprise entry into the race to succeed Mitch McConnell as a Kentucky senator.

The first days of the rest of Dale Romans life paulickreport.com/features/kee...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Good job here by TD Thornton on this week's big HISA arguments at the 6th Circuit

www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/sixth-circui...
Sixth Circuit Judge On HISA: 'It Happens All The Time That Governments Rely On Private Entities To Do Things'
A sixth circuit judge on HISA said 'It Happens All the Time That Governments Rely on Private Entities to Do Things'
www.thoroughbreddailynews.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The latest Keeping Pace column is here.

Racetrack vets wield enormous power. The least they can do is quickly and completely explain their decisions to scratch a horse from a race.

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November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Once one person trusted me enough to talk, my number spread through the Mohican Young Star Academy network. Over and over, I heard the same thing about the residential treatment facility for boys: someone is going to get hurt.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/06/r...
How an Ohio Youth Treatment Center Tried to End Escalating Violence
A year after taking over Mohican Young Star Academy, new owners and leadership face questions from workers, police and neighbors about its direction.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Screams and bangs echoed inside Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment center. Some children rushed outside to grab rocks. A teacher ushered her students into the cafeteria for safety.

Another teacher texted her mother, pleading with her to call 911: “Call them. Call mom please.”
How an Ohio Youth Treatment Center Tried to End Escalating Violence
A year after taking over Mohican Young Star Academy, new owners and leadership face questions from workers, police and neighbors about its direction.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The latest from @paulickreport.bsky.social

What happens when there are too many sellers and not enough buyers at a horse auction? We may find out this week.

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Keeping Pace: Reactions, Feedback To The CAW Lawsuit
Plus, what happens to a market flooded with goods but not enough buyers? We may find out later this week at the Standardbred Horse Sale, the largest in the U.S., where dispersal sales have flooded the market for fillies and mares. Who will buy all these nice horses?
paulickreport.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Trump dismisses prosecutors of Jan 6 rioter who was preparing to assassinate former Pres Obama. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Prosecutors placed on leave hours after describing Jan. 6 attack as a ‘mob of rioters’
The prosecutors made the description in a sentencing memo for a Jan. 6 defendant who was pardoned by Trump but is facing prison time for unrelated crimes.
www.politico.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A major case that will shape the future of horse racing lands in the lap of a federal judge in New York.

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October 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Jeffries on a death threat made against him by a pardoned J6 criminal: "Not a single Republican has reached out to me since that incident occurred, and that's no surprise because they cannot defend the fact that Donald Trump pardoned hundreds of violent felons who brutally beat police officers."
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
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October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Horse racing regulations and rules aren't going to get better if. industry stakeholders are misinformed about what's working and what's not. The latest Keeping Pace column @paulickreport.bsky.social

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October 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Thanks very much. And keep up the good work @boltsmag.org
Always in awe of the work @justadcohen.bsky.social does every single morning for @themarshallproject.org's daily newsletter. A critical way to stay on top of the daily news in the world of criminal justice. My semi-regular plug to check them out here: www.themarshallproject.org/newsletters/...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

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October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The first episode of Collateral Damage, my reported podcast with The Intercept, went up today.

Hope you’ll check it out and, if you enjoy it, give it a favorable rating or review.

Eternal thanks to my producers @lauraflynn.bsky.social and Andrew Stelzer for making it happen.
Ep. 1 Dirty Business: The Atlanta Narcotics Unit’s Deadly Raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston.
Podcast Episode · Collateral Damage from The Intercept · 10/08/2025 · 55m
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October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I have no doubt things could get bad enough that the political opposition and civil society will start to seem suitably responsive to the threat. But that's precisely why they should be acting that way now. www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...
October 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I feel so badly for my former colleagues and friends @cbsnews.com, so many of whom were such fine and fair journalists.

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The devolution of CBS News
A network once revered for fact-based reporting is embracing right-wing pseudo-journalism
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October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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It's now clear that Tom Cibrowski -- CBS News' president and a broadcast-news veteran who has covered wars, earthquakes and plane crashes-- will now have his judgment frequently overridden or second-guessed by Bari Weiss, who has never done any of those things.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
October 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM