Summary: JARED COHEN (bestselling author) and DR. JOHN YORK (The Heritage Foundation) Joining us on the show this week is our Special Guest - bestselling author, businessman, and political advisor - Jared Cohen! Jared Cohen is the founder and CEO of Jigsaw at Alphabet Inc. He also serves as an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to Alphabet, he was Google's first Director of Ideas and chief advisor to Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt. From 2006 to 2010 he served as a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Cohen is the New York Times bestselling author of four books, including "Children of Jihad", "One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide", and "The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Business, and Our Lives", which he co-authored with Eric Schmidt. His new book, "The Accidental Presidents", examines the eight instances in American history when a president has died in office. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, LA Times, Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and Foreign Policy. He has been named to the "TIME 100" list, Foreign Policy's "Top 100 Global Thinkers," and Vanity Fair's "Next Establishment." Cohen serves on several advisory boards, including Allianz, Stanford University's Freeman-Spogli Institute, Rivet Ventures, FluidMarket, ASAPP, and NCTC. he is a member of GenNext and a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. Also joining us on the show this week is our Special Guest - policy analyst - Dr. John York! Dr. John York is a policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation. His work focuses on utilizing the precepts of the American political tradition to understand and critique modern concerns of federalism, the bureaucracy, money and politics, and political parties and interest groups. He has a particular interest in the Electoral College and what may happen with "The Compact" - which would eliminate the Electoral College without amending the Constitution. John earned a bachelor of arts in Political Science at Kenyon College in Ohio, a Master's degree in Politics at the University of Virginia, and his Ph.D from the University of Virginia.
