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Israel's attack may be de-escalatory - Ali

Oct 26, 2024 KCBS
Javed Ali, Ford School professor talked with KCBS about Iran's response to the Israeli missile strikes. Ali said "they hit about 20 targets roughly across Iran Iraq and syria and focused on facilities associated either with air defense and or...
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Ali comments on damage to Iran from Israel

Oct 27, 2024 ABC Australia
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked with ABC Australia about the damage Iran sustained from Israel's attacks. Ali said, "this was a significant response by Israel but also very calibrated and deliberate, and appears not to have been designed to...
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It's very difficult to militarily eliminate a terrorist group - Ali

Jan 16, 2025 National News Desk
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, says that making a deal with Hamas and then making sure they don't strike Israel, "that's just going to be something that Israel is going to have to focus more on, from an intelligence perspective, to make sure...
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Ali not concerned about last minute ceasefire crisis

Jan 16, 2025 ABC News
In an interview with ABC, Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked about why the last minute crisis with the Israel Hamas ceasefire should not be concerning. He said, "I am not that concerned that the deal somehow is  going to fall apart because so...
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Moynihan on Trump administration conflict with judges

Feb 26, 2025 Raw Story
Don Moynihan, Ford School professor and co-director of the Better Government Lab, talked about the court orders against the Trump administration, saying, ""Trump administration broke the law by pausing legitimate spending. The courts told him to...
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Lewis and Honorific Namings Task Force seek input

Mar 24, 2025
The tri-campus Task Force on New Honorific Namings is seeking input from the university community as it works to develop policies and procedures for new honorific namings of facilities and prominent spaces at the University of Michigan.Working with...
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Moynihan on human-centered government benefit delivery

Sep 18, 2024 State Scoop
Don Moynihan, Ford School professor, discussed the future of govnerment benefit delivery. He explained, “What does administrative burden mean? Essentially, it is defined as people’s experience of policy implementation as onerous.” He talked about...
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A lot of ‘unskilled’ workers actually aren’t - Stevenson

Oct 7, 2024
"It is an appropriate time to consider the term 'unskilled,'" writes Betsey Stevenson, Ford School professor and economist in an opinion article for Bloomberg. She says this term is "demeaning and misleading."These workers, she says, "Often people...