Jared Cohen

📷📷 How do we talk to our kids about politics? My new book #SpeakingOfAmerica offers one answer. It's not just history—it's America's story told by its leaders. Since we always tell kids to "use their words," let's show presidential words changed history! tinyurl.com/3h8j6hej

OUT TODAY! My new book, Autocrats vs. Democrats, looks at the challenges posed by autocratic Russia and China and explains how/why the U.S. must lead the democratic world in response. Available in stores or online: harpercollins.com/products/autoc… @HooverInst @FSIStanford @MarinerBooks @HarperCollins

1 The defining deliberations of this war aren't between the US and Iran, but Trump and himself. He’s vacillated between walking away and promising to bomb Iran to the Stone Age. Iran has been consistent: Its ideology is resistance, its strategy is chaos, its endgame is survival.

Check out my latest article: A Living Nightmare: Reflections on my Personal Humanitarian Mission to #Sudan linkedin.com/pulse/living-n… via @LinkedIn

Munich: on the sidelines at #MSC2026, I met with the President of Global Affairs at @GoldmanSachs and Co-Head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute @JaredCohen. We discussed a path towards a peaceful Sudan, stronger humanitarian support and more effective international partnerships. 2026 is the year of peace, stability, investment and cooperation. We welcome all opportunities that support the development and recovery of our great nation, Sudan. #MSC2026 #Peace #GovernmentOfHope

I often get asked who will win the AI race: The US or China? The answer to this question is far more complicated than the quasi-Cold War framing suggests. I unpack this in my latest piece in ⁦@TIME⁩ time.com/7379419/ai-rac…

Congrats to Dina Powell! Endlessly impressed as you continue to tackle new frontiers and shape the most important parts of our society. Very smart hire by Meta! about.fb.com/news/2026/01/d…

@BenSasse Ben, I’m heartbroken to hear this news. You have been the gold standard for what it means to be a great American in public life. More importantly, I’ve always admired your commitment in private life as an exceptional father, husband and family man. You are in my prayers

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses

#1 on The New York Times Bestseller list. I’m speechless. Thank you for reading and for believing that history still matters. 🙏

Governments are now more than just regulators of markets, they are among the most consequential asset owners and allocators of capital in the global economy, write @JaredCohen and George Lee. foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/03/ins…

Mikes book is must reading for anyone trying to navigate the tensions between democracy and autocracy. He is a world class scholar and brilliant thinker! @McFaul

In @nytopinion “Even for seasoned financial analysts, it is difficult to predict when an event will cause lasting disruption” to the stock market, Jared Cohen and Sam Morgan write. Some patterns they’ve studied may surprise investors. nyti.ms/4mgo0MI

How to Know When a World Event Could Shock the Market nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opi… via @NYTOpinion (My piece w/my partner Sam Morgan in today’s @nytimes)

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written amazon.com/Greatest-Sente…

Happy July 4! As we head into our 250th next year, I’ve written a short book, out in November, about the Declaration’s “We hold these truths” sentence, how Jefferson and Franklin and Adams crafted it, and how it can help us find common ground today. amazon.com/Greatest-Sente…

Big congrats Alex!

Thanks Cara! I hope you enjoy it

NEW ODD LOTS - GOLDMAN'S GLOBAL INSTITUTE ON UNPRECEDENTED GEOPOLITICAL RISKS @TheStalwart & I speak with @JaredCohen & George Lee, co-heads of the GS Global Institute about basically all the big things that are happening right now - the break-up of the trans-Atlantic partnership - changing ideologies in international affairs - the strategic importance of AI (including subsea cables) - Plus much, much more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gol…

The AI economy has a massive vulnerability in the ocean’s 750,000 miles of undersea cables. 95% intl data flows, $10T daily transactions, offshore energy and national secrets are all vulnerable to geopolitical risk: search.app/f6UWjAFu7fXMsP…

Goldman Sachs’ @JaredCohen weighs in on the AI economy’s massive vulnerability and why subsea cables face escalating risks. cnbc.com/video/2025/02/…

Dave and I have been blessed by mentors that changed our lives, and we know you can have that profound impact, too. Today we are thrilled to introduce, “Who Believed in You?” You can change somebody’s life — and #mentoringchangestheworld. axios.com/2025/02/24/new…