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Moynihan: Trump's foreign policy is "smash and grab, see what works"

Mar 16, 2026 The New York Times
Don Moynihan cites Trump’s "almost childish impetuousness": A through line of Trump’s actions is that they are impulsive, with little consideration of the constraints or consequences. We clearly see this with Iran, where the president has shown littl...
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Green discusses local impacts of data centers

Nov 30, 2025
Ford School professor Ben Green's research on the impacts of data centers recently caught the eye of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, which asked him to deliver a presentation on the topic to its Citizens Advisory Council on Nov...
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Hanson: younger candidates showing "it's time for a fresh face"

Nov 9, 2025 ABC News
"We are already seeing evidence of senior members of Congress facing challenges from younger members, and they're being backed by the voters," Jonathan Hanson, a political scientist and lecturer in statistics at the University of Michigan, told ABC N...
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Civil service brain drain will be hard to reverse - Moynihan

Sep 30, 2025 Reuters
Don Moynihan, a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, said the biggest impact of this week's exodus will be the brain drain of so many experienced civil servants, a loss of talent he says will be hard to reverse...
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Wolfers explains potential impacts of new $100K H-1B visa fee

Sep 23, 2025 PBS
"Economics is like baking a cake," said Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. "You put a whole lot of ingredients into the mixing bowl and we bake our economic cake. Sometimes, though, in America, we discove...
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Swisher Hosts Pete Buttigieg for Live Podcast Appearance

Sep 21, 2025
Kara Swisher, the award-winning journalist and current Ford School Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence, sat down for a conversation with Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to discuss “The State of U.S. Democracy,” for her On with ...
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Leiser: possibility of state shutdown is difficult to predict

Sep 19, 2025 Midland Daily News
The likelihood of a shutdown is difficult to predict, said Stephanie Leiser, who leads the Michigan Local Government Fiscal Health Project at the University of Michigan’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy and has worked as a tax policy analys...
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Moynihan: Trump's speech on Kirk's death a "missed opportunity"

Sep 11, 2025 Financial Times
Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, said Trump could have used his speech from the Oval Office to condemn all forms of political violence and emphasise the importance of tolerance as a “cornerstone for democra...
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Ostfeld conducting research on political status in Guam

Sep 10, 2025
Since the end of World War II, the United States has rhetorically championed the principle of “self-determination.” Yet today, more than four million Americans live in U.S. territories whose homelands are excluded from most maps and remain invisible ...
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Trump is driving America toward authoritarianism - Moynihan

Sep 10, 2025
Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by what Ford School professor Don Moynihan describes as following a checklist for consolidating power and silencing dissent—both serious threats to democracy. In an opinion for the Detroit News,...
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Hills handicaps GOP 2028 field

Sep 8, 2025
According to Ford school lecturer Rusty Hills, the Republican Party has a succession problem. This produces an opportunity for non-Trump Republicans to put forth a candidate that can transform the party. In an opinion for the Detroit Free Press, he m...
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Bagenstos: states can ensure access to vaccines

Aug 29, 2025 The New Republic
“All that would have to happen is for some state to purchase a whole bunch of vaccines,” Bagenstos says, “then have the state’s chief health officer prescribe the vaccine to anyone who wants them—and then provide the vaccines out of the state’s own s...
Samuel Bagenstos
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Wolfers on market reactions to Trump pronouncements

Jul 23, 2025 MSNBC
Wolfers on MSNBC: Here's the most important thing if you look at markets: If you look at every singly day where Trump has backed his own instincts, when he's imposed new tariffs, every single time he's done that, markets have gone down. When he's bac...
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Bednar: Musk's third party unlikely to rival established parties

Jul 7, 2025 The Times of India
Jenna Bednar, a political scientist at the University of Michigan, echoed these concerns in an interview with The TimesofIndia.com: "“In the United States' electoral system, third parties face nearly insurmountable organizational, institutional, and ...
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New Wolfers segment on MSNBC: The Professor Is In!

May 23, 2025
Ford School economics professor Justin Wolfers is one of the most prolific “public” scholars at the school. His analyses about current economic events regularly appear on the pages of The New York Times (among others), on the screens at Bloomberg (am...
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Herd explains how social security benefit cuts may happen

Apr 4, 2025 Finger Lakes 1
Ford School professor Pamela Herd explained how Trump's agenda of using AI and making cuts to federal staff will damage Social Security. She said, “We’re talking about an agency that manages one-fifth of the federal budget—AI alone won’t cut it.” By ...
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Moynihan on excessive amount of money in American politics

Apr 2, 2025 Political Wire
Don Moynihan, Ford School professor, said “Money is a an aggressive growing tumor at the heart of American democracy. The 2023 Wisconsin state supreme court race cost $56 million, a national record at the time. The 2025 version blasted that out of th...
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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 d...
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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 projec...
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