Jonathan Cowan
President, Third Way Executive Team, Office of the President
Jonathan Cowan has co-founded and run three high-impact national advocacy organizations, served as Chief of Staff of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and worked as a Democratic press secretary and legislative aide in Congress. For two decades, he has led Third Way and built it into a prominent voice in center-left debates, with Prospect Magazine naming Third Way the 2013 North American Think Tank of the Year and The Washington Post dubbing it “the best source of new ideas in public policy.”
Previously, he co-founded and ran America’s then-largest Generation X advocacy group, Lead…or Leave and battled the NRA for sensible gun policy as the head of Americans for Gun Safety, which The Atlantic said was responsible for “fundamentally changing the debate” on firearm policy. Additionally, Cowan has served as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, authored a book titled Revolution X, and is frequently cited as a policy and political expert in national outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, and NPR.
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Third Way rolls out “new economic bargain” platform for Dems (external link)
Jonathan Cowan
Democrats are calculating a left turn. The math is inescapable. (external link)
Jonathan Cowan, Matt Bennett
The Left’s Three Big Lies Behind the Platner Disaster
Jonathan Cowan, Matt Bennett
No more appeasement. Democrats need to fight the DSA. (external link)
Jonathan Cowan, Matt Bennett
Pod Save nobody (external link)
Jonathan Cowan
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