‘Like a big gumbo pot’The way Branford Marsalis sees it, the world needs social activists and artists. Yet the Grammy-winning saxophonist said he has a hard time doing both.“Playing music is so hard — I don’t really have time for (activism),”...

Most of Michigan’s county sheriffs and local police chiefs support some type of alternative or hybrid approach for responding to 911 calls beyond traditional law enforcement officers.However, a majority of them believe it would be difficult to...

Challenges abound in the development, implementation and effects of artificial intelligence. Yet people still have the power to limit risks and even foster positive integration of AI—should they choose to shoulder that responsibility. Listen to the...

Javed Ali, Ford School professor, says “This is not a good-news story for the CIA,” about a CIA official being charged with leaking documents about Israeli strike on Iran. Ali also highlighted the vulnerabilities in the US system of keeping...

Susan D. Page, Ford School professor, says the continuing crisis in Haiti is hard to explain. Page says “Everyone is just kind of astounded.” Because of that it will be hard to know how the incoming Trump administration will influence that...

Javed Ali, Ford School professor talked on the rhetoric Russia has deployed, he says the war in Ukraine "is a ground war that's a stalemate, and it's a war of attrition, and now it's the battle of wills." But he says, the "really provocative...

Javed Ail, Ford School professor, talked about possible topics at the meeting to be held between NATO and Ukraine next week. Ali also talked about Russias use of a hypersonic ballistic missile. He said the US may have been notified of the use of...

Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked with ABC Australia about the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah and the International Criminal court arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu. He said about the ceasefire, "I am treating what has...

Betsey Stevenson, Ford school professor said, "I don't think its reigniting" about the inflation rate, though she said it is hard to reduce inflation from 3% to 2%. She also talked immigration, saying "one of the reasons we have had such fast...

Ford School Professor, Javed Ali talks about Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s international arrest warrants and the possibility of a ceasefire deal and the negations in Lebanon. He says for the most part the "arrest warrants are mostly...