President Trump

As President Trump continues to escalate his Twitter attacks in the wake of negative headlines and unflattering books, Ford School professor Brendan Nyhan told a National Public Radio reporter that the president "more and more is calling into...

In a recently released letter to the Senate Banking Committee, prominent economists including Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers of the Ford School, have urged the confirmation of American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Kevin Hassett, President...

Betsey Stevenson’s latest column for Bloomberg View suggests looking to the tax code to cut wasteful spending, rather than cutting programs like environmental protection and support for science and the arts. The April 20 article, “Where Trump...

Marina v. N. Whitman advocates for the Trump administration to invest in public goods in her April 18 article for The Conversation: “‘Public Goods’ made America great and can do so again.”Public goods include a nation's existing natural resources,...

An article published by The Detroit News on March 16, titled “Trump’s budget plan hurts Michigan, Great Lakes cleanup” discusses President Trump’s budget blueprint, which was revealed earlier this month. The budget plan proposes to eliminate a...

Ashley Wilson (BA '18) speaking on behalf of Students for Choice at the Ann Arbor Women's March (photo credit: Ashley Wilson (BA '18)) While Fordies have been active in politics since the beginning of time (or, more...

Susan M. Collins, the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Ford School and a former president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), has signed a "Commitment to Diversity" statement just released...

Marina Whitman is featured in AP auto writer Dee-Ann Durbin’s January 24 article, “How a Trump tariff could sideswipe U.S. auto industry.” Durbin reports President Trump is considering a tax on Mexican-made cars to pressure U.S. automakers to keep...

Bloomberg View columnists, including Betsey Stevenson, issued an article on “17 metrics to watch in the Trump era” on January 20. Columnists each submitted benchmarks to watch for a sense of President Trump's performance. “His success, he...