Jonathan D. Cohen

Jonathan D. Cohen is the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Senior Program Officer for American Institutions, Society, and the Public Good at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, where he is the lead staffer for the Commission on Reimagining Our Economy.

Jon is the author of Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling (2025) as well as For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America (2022), which was featured in the New Yorker and has been cited or reviewed in a wide variety of national and local outlets, including CNN, CBS Morning News, and the BBC. He is also the co-editor of two volumes: Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen (2019, with June Skinner Sawyers) and All In: The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States (2018, with David G. Schwartz). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and many other outlets. Prior to joining the Academy, he served as financial writer and editor at Tiger Capital Group. He completed his B.A. at McGill University and received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia.