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Political repurposing
Two weeks after his inauguration, President Obama invited supporters of his 2008 campaign to the White House to lay out his plan for a Middle Class Task Force. The idea behind the task force was that research and public outreach could break through the partisan gridlock on Capitol Hill and help create good-paying jobs in […]
The Appeal
DAs Increasingly Treat Overdoses as Homicides. Will November Reel That In?
Leo Beletsky, a professor at Northeastern University who has spearheaded this data collection, attributes this to a prosecutorial culture of “cherry picking” cases for “performative” purposes. “If you’re a prosecutor in a rural Pennsylvania county, the story you want to tell your constituents is that people from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are coming into your community and poisoning […]
Impeach Trump? House Democrats face delicate choice as lawmakers, but not public, push for action
“I think the hearings largely serve a political purpose, keeping this issue at the forefront of the public’s mind heading into the fall and the campaign season,” said Daniel Medwed, who followed the Mueller inquiry as a professor of criminal law and procedure at Northeastern University.
Boston Herald
Terrorism hysteria often hollow panic
“The purpose of terrorism is to intentionally sow fear in the public and thereby change the status quo,” said Max Abrahms, a political science professor at Northeastern University who researches terrorism. “In that sense, terrorism is very effective. It does what it sets out to do — it creates terror.”
Crain's New York Business
Will stepping up drug-dealer arrests help alleviate the opioid crisis?
But Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University School of Law, said little evidence exists to support the idea that arresting drug dealers will lead to fewer overdoses. “Taking someone out of the drug supply chain has not been shown to affect the drug supply,” said Beletsky, who has consulted […]
The Varieties of Anger
Bitterness. Hostility. Rage. The varieties of anger are endless. Some are mild, such as grumpiness, and others are powerful, such as wrath. Different angers vary not only in their intensity but also in their purpose. It’s normal to feel exasperated with your screaming infant and scornful of a political opponent, but scorn toward your baby […]
Finding solidarity in disaster
Yet that does not mean that government policy is unimportant. Daniel Aldrich, a political scientist, showed that in a series of Asian disasters, villages with stronger and more participatory local government rebuilt faster and better. Building infrastructure for tighter and more successful communities is the business of government, and it can be pursued through policies […]
Hong Kong protests mark twist in history of umbrella symbolism
As young people in Hong Kong pop open umbrellas in a show of defiance against China’s plan for watered-down democracy in the city, a U.S. academic notes that to previous generations the accessory symbolized appeasement. From 1930s England through the Kennedy and Nixon years in the U.S., to display an umbrella was to allege political softness, says Edward H. Miller, […]
International Business Times
James Foley’s killing turns spotlight on European jihadists
The beheading of James Foley by a man whom UK intelligence agencies are close to identifying as a British national didn’t just reveal the brutality of how ISIS operates. It raised questions about why a large number of young Muslim men from across Europe have joined the ranks of the Sunni militant group. Thousands of […]
CBS Boston
Facebook users react to company’s psychological study
When users sign up for Facebook, they agree to allow research studies to be conducted on their profiles. In 2012, Facebook manipulated users’ news feeds without their consent to see whether their moods changed when exposed to positive or negative news. “I think it is cause for concern,” said Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy, a […]
Political repurposing
Two weeks after his inauguration, President Obama invited supporters of his 2008 campaign to the White House to lay out his plan for a Middle Class Task Force. The idea behind the task force was that research and public outreach could break through the partisan gridlock on Capitol Hill and help create good-paying jobs in […]