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Hanson assesses Trump-Xi summit

May 15, 2026 WJR
President Donald Trump said many issues between China and the U.S. were “settled” during his two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, though no specific resolutions were given. Ford School Professor Jonathan Hanson comments.
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Ann Chih Lin comments on Trump's China visit

May 14, 2026
Ford School Professor Ann Chih Lin spoke with Spectrum News about the possible agenda items for President Trump and President Xi's meeting including the war in Iran, the economy, political prisoners in China, and Trump's defense of Taiwan.
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Moynihan on the death of USAID

Aug 6, 2025
In his paper published in Public Administration and Development, Don Moynihan analyzes the unprecedented dismantling of USAID under President Trump’s second administration, orchestrated by Elon Musk.
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State & Hill

Import tariffs and their effects

May 8, 2025
The economics of tariffs is surprisingly simple: they are a tax, which raises the price that buyers pay and that competing sellers inside the country can charge.
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State & Hill

A house on fire: rescuing state capacity

May 8, 2025
Moynihan: "State capacity” is hard to define and measure, and is perhaps seen as boring, but capacity is the hidden glue that holds public policy together, or, when debased, causes public policy to fall apart. If you care about the quality of governm...
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State & Hill

Trump in international comparative context: another Hungary?

May 8, 2025
Cavaillé: A large and growing number of voters have found in political figures like Trump, Meloni, Orban, and Le Pen a home to express their grievances over the state of the economy, their own socioeconomic status, and immigration control.
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Trump's 100 days in office: Ford School experts available

Apr 29, 2025
In the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump has unleashed a whirlwind of policy shifts that have sent ripples across the globe. The responses to his administration's actions have ranged from applause to skepticism. Ford School fa...
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Stevenson widely quoted on Trump tariff policies

Apr 25, 2025
Ford School professor Betsey Stevenson has been widely sought for her insights, and concerns, about the implications of the Trump administration's proposed tariffs. Here are some of the notes Stevenson has shared with news outlets over the past few w...
Betsey Stevenson
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Stevenson predicts Fed chair to reassure financial markets

Apr 16, 2025 Bloomberg
Reflecting on recent stock market instability, the Ford School's Betsey Stevenson told Bloomberg in an interview that, "I do think that he [Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve chairman] is going to reassure financial markets that we have a strong and soli...
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In the Media

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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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 de...
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In the Media

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 t...
Justin Wolfers
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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 ex...
Kenneth Lowande
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Stevenson discusses Trump reasoning on tariffs

Mar 6, 2025 Michigan Public
Ford School professor Betsey Stevenson discussed the rational behind implement tariffs on Canada and Mexico, but she said, "with China that they may have been trying to compete with very low-cost manufacturing" however “I don't think you can make thi...
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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, Trump...
In the Media

Moynihan on donors paying millions to dine with Trump

Mar 4, 2025 Wired
Don Moynihan, Ford School professor says his worries about donors dining with Trump is "where there doesn’t seem to be a clear line between Trump’s businesses and the presidency.” He says, “The concern is less about fundraising and more about access ...
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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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Moynihan argues Trump's mass federal layoffs are an assertion of power

Feb 27, 2025 Associated Press
"There’s a fundamental realignment of power here," said Don Moynihan, a public policy professor at the Ford School, commenting on the mass federal firings carried out by the Trump administration. “This administration is saying we have much more power...
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Rico comments on Trump policies' impact on immigrant communities

Feb 23, 2025
Center for Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow Kristina Fullerton Rico explores what she calls the dangerous implications of President Trump's deportation policy in an essay in The Conversation.  Citing extensive social science research on U.S. immigr...
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