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We have too much faith in the law - Moynihan

Mar 23, 2025 Financial Times
Current government operations under the Trump administration are pointing to signs of democratic backsliding. The Ford School's Don Moynihan has stated that Americans have put too much faith in the law. Quoted in an article from the Financial Times,...
Don Moynihan
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Morenoff calls for Michigan state prison reform

Mar 23, 2025
The Ford School's Jeff Morenoff advocated for legislation that would reduce long sentences for incarcerated people in Michigan. In an opinion piece published in the Detroit Free Press, Morenoff explained that Michigan's average prison sentence...
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Bipartisan panel advocates for civic discourse and humility

Mar 23, 2025
“Civility is the bedrock of our free and democratic society,” Tonya Schuitmaker, a former Republican member of the Michigan Senate, told the recent panel on Promoting Civic Discourse - Democratic and Republican politicians on bridging the political...
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Wolfers: Two Reasons for Optimism About the Economy

Mar 23, 2025
"The air is thick with recession talk, and stocks are cratering. But it just may be a mirage, a refraction of partisan distortions" wrote Ford School professor, Justin Wolfers, in a recent guest essay for The New York Times."It started with a...
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The Trump administration is erasing DEI from history - Moynihan

Mar 22, 2025 The Daily Beast
The Ford School's Don Moynihan spoke with The Daily Beast and commented on the removal of government history from various agency websites, specifically targeting topics involving DEI or POC and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. "It's this sort of...
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Herd on Trump's return-to-office order

Mar 16, 2025 Reuters
Pam Herd, Ford School professor, talked about the Trump administration's strategies to cut the government work force, saying "It's the move fast and break things approach, without really thinking through the implications of a range of different...
Pamela Herd
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Parthasarathy on AI running the government

Mar 13, 2025 Al Jazeera
Shobita Parthasarathy, Ford School professor, says "These workers have real expertise and a nuanced understanding of the issues, which AI does not. AI does not, in fact, ‘understand’ anything." So, she says,  “It’s a very bad idea" to use AI to run...
Professor Shobita Parthasarathy leads a discussion in the Betty Ford Classroom
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Wolfers: It's not a world trade war, but an American trade war

Mar 12, 2025 ABC Australia
Justin Wolfers, Ford School professor talked with ABC Australia about Trump's trade war and how other countries like Australia have yet to retaliate. Wolfers said "we haven't seen any action of non-US countries imposing tariffs on each other so its...
Justin Wolfers
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Trump sees the world in zero sum terms - Wolfers

Mar 11, 2025 MSNBC
Ford School professor Justin Wolfers tried to explain Donald Trump's thinking on the economy. He said, "There is an underlying economics of trump, and you won't be surprised I think it's dead wrong." Wolfers said, "There's the zero sum thinking and...
Justin Wolfers
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Moynihan on disruption caused by DOGE

Mar 9, 2025 ABC News
Don Moynihan, Ford School professor, said the DOGE cuts at agencies created by Congress "is implementing an unprecedented scale of disruption.” Rather than just shrinking the government in ways conservatives have long advocated, these efforts by...
Don Moynihan
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The strategy behind Trump's executive orders - Lowande

Mar 6, 2025 The Oklahoman
The Ford School's Kenneth Lowande recently presented at the University of Oklahoma's annual Teach-In conference. There, Lowande was asked to comment on the power of the president and why Donald Trump has upheld a strategy of implementing countless...
Kenneth Lowande
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Lowande on English as US official language: "Their goal is branding"

Mar 5, 2025 McClatchy News
Kenneth Lowande, Ford School professor, explains why the Trump administration made English the official language of the US by saying, "The point of these actions is to show you that President Trump stands for people speaking English.” It is not...
Kenneth Lowande
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Trump's address to Congress like a campaign rally - Hills

Mar 5, 2025 Daily Mail
Rusty Hills, Ford School lecturer, commented on the president's address to Congress, calling it "classic Trump." He said, "The speech was a campaign rally held under the capitol dome. It was a two hour long ‘Greatest Hits’ tour." In the speech,...
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Moynihan on DOGE employees' government salaries

Mar 4, 2025 Wired
Don Moynihan, Ford School professor, spoke about reports of DOGE employees receiving six-figure salaries from government agencies. He said, "It does seem worth understanding what these employees are being paid, especially if they are being paid...
Don Moynihan
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Lowande on presidential powers: Is the system collapsing?

Mar 1, 2025 NTV Germany
Kenneth Lowande, Ford School professor, talked impacts of the Trump administration and expansion of presidential powers. Lowande discussed the breaking of norms, saying, "Their goal is to change the rules of American government that have existed for...
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The reality of DOGE's mediocre savings - Stevenson

Feb 25, 2025
The Ford School's Betsey Stevenson recently spoke with Bloomberg, highlighting the false assertions of government saving increases made by DOGE. DOGE claims it has saved the government around $55 billion in spending through a wave of federal firings...
Betsey Stevenson
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Bednar says Michigan politics reflect national trends

Feb 18, 2025 Michigan Advance
Michigan Advance has observed ways in which political trends and ideologies of Michiganders are representative of the broader national population. “It’s not just that we’re a swing state, but we’re kind of a microcosm of the country and our politics...
Jenna Bednar
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Withholding funding is not reasonable - Bagenstos

Feb 4, 2025 Marketplace
Professor at the Ford School and former General Counsel to the Office of Management and Budget, Samuel Bagenstos said the president "withholding certain funding — including for green energy projects and foreign aid" is not supported by "proper...
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Concerns arise with Trump's OMB director nomination - Moynihan

Feb 4, 2025 The New York Times
Donald Moynihan, professor at the Ford School, commented on President Trump's nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought: “Vought is Trump’s Thomas Cromwell: the behind-the-scenes fixer who enables his master’s...
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Bagenstos on RFK Jr.'s threat to medicated abortion

Feb 4, 2025 HuffPost
With Trump's nomination for Robert F Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services, many worry the drug used for medicated abortions is on the chopping block. “Under the statute that governs drug approvals, FDA is required to follow...
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Hanson: Democrats' vigilance needs to be increased

Jan 6, 2025 O Sul
Jonathan Hanson, Ford School professor says “Last year, Democrats had a very tough task" and even though they failed, "yesterday’s losers should let their guard down today. On the contrary, everything indicates that vigilance needs to be...
Jon Hanson
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Rabe talks Trump conflict over electric vehicles

Dec 18, 2024 Politico
Ford School Professor Barry Rabe said when President Trump was inaugurated the conflict over electric vehicles switched from "Biden versus Trump to Trump versus Newsom," Governor of California. However, Rabe said some blue states may be able to use...
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Hanson on Matt Gaetz running for his own house seat

Nov 21, 2024 Forbes
Jonathan Hanson, Ford School professor, talked with Forbes about the possibility of Matt Gaetz running for election to the house seat he vacated. Hanson says there is no law prohibiting Gaetz from running for election in the special election,...
Jonathan Hanson
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EV mandate backlash helped Republicans - Rabe

Nov 19, 2024 Inside Climate News
Ford School professor Barry Rabe said not having an EV mandate “was consistently a top five issue in Michigan politics in candidates for federal office and candidates for state office,” said Rabe. He says there was “a very vigorous backlash by...
Barry Rabe
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High prices made voters angry with Democrats - Stevenson

Nov 15, 2024 ABC Australia
Betsey Stevenson, Ford School professor, talked about voters' reactions to inflation and high prices and their effects on the 2024 elections. "I failed to understand just how much anger high prices would bring," said Stevenson. That is one reason...
Betsey Stevenson
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Inflation hurt Democrats and angered consumers - Stevenson

Nov 11, 2024 NPR
Ford School professor and economist Betsey Stevenson said, “Economists are going to have to reckon with the fact that the public would have preferred a slower recovery with much higher unemployment, as long as prices had been stable.” She then said,...
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