Michael Cohen is a non-resident Senior Fellow and helms the Stimson Center “Is War Worth It?” Project. He is also a columnist for MSNBC and publishes the newsletter Truth and Consequences.  Michael is the the author of three books “American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division,” “Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century, and How They Shaped Modern America” and “Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans” co-written with Micah Zenko.

Michael has also served as the national political columnist for the Boston Globe and was a columnist for Foreign Policy, the Guardian, and World Politics Review. Most recently, he was a Senior Fellow at Fletcher School, Tufts University, where he helmed the “Afghanistan Assumptions Project.” He previously worked as a speechwriter at the US State Department, on Capitol Hill, and was a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and a fellow at the Century Foundation, the American Security Project, and the World Policy Institute. He’s also been a lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he also received his Master’s Degree. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.