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The US is less than 2 weeks away from Election Day. Here’s what to watch for.

“This is the pandemic election. It’s a whole different world,” said Sabrina Siddiqui, national politics reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and one of three politics experts who participated in the latest Civic Experience event at Northeastern on Wednesday.

by Molly Callahan October 21, 2020

Climate change has made history this election cycle. But how will it fare in November?

With this week’s debate canceled, the only presidential debate so far featured the longest discussion of climate change of any such showdown to date. But there’s still a long way to go, says Jennie C. Stephens, dean’s professor of sustainability science and policy at Northeastern.

by Molly Callahan October 14, 2020

How has COVID-19 transformed the ‘forgotten front line’?

How has the disease affected the people who work in grocery stores, hotels, or restaurants? Paul Fombelle, associate professor of marketing at Northeastern, considers these employees the “forgotten front line,” and seeks to learn more about how their jobs and lives have changed over the last six months.

by Molly Callahan October 14, 2020

Changing culture is the first step toward erasing racial boundaries

Culture is more than what we watch, read, and listen to. The movies, TV shows, theater, books, music, or podcasts we consume shape how we understand ourselves and the world in which we live, according to a panel of Northeastern faculty who spoke during the third installment of the university’s Racial Literacy series.

by Molly Callahan October 13, 2020

Onstage and online, the show goes on in the Theatre Department

Acting, says Antonio Ocampo-Guzman, chair of the Theatre Department at Northeastern, is perpetually inventing the next moment. His practice in the art is perhaps partially what drew him back to the university’s Boston campus this fall, for a chance to invent the next moment, week, semester, year, with his students and colleagues.

by Molly Callahan October 6, 2020

Was ‘stand back and stand by’ a rallying cry for the Proud Boys? Here’s how to deflate extremist fringe groups.

Intended or not, President Donald Trump’s remark that the Proud Boys, a group of far-right extremists, should “stand back and stand by” was taken up by members as a rallying cry. “If Trump said something that the Proud Boys saw as validation of them, it doesn’t matter what he meant. It matters how they perceived it,” says Gordana Rabrenovic, assistant professor of sociology who studies intergroup violence and conflict.

by Molly Callahan October 5, 2020

Did anyone really win the first presidential debate?

Tuesday’s debate between Republican incumbent Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden was marked more by what it wasn’t—a coherent advocacy of policy differences—than what it was. The showdown was nearly 90 minutes of cross-talk, interruptions, and shouting that “both men probably lost,” said Nicholas Beauchamp, assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University.

by Molly Callahan September 30, 2020

Have a problem with Trump’s low income tax? Blame the tax code.

An explosive New York Times investigation reveals that Donald Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. William Dickens, university distinguished professor of economics and social policy at Northeastern, says that while he sees some “questionable deductions” outlined in the Times report, “more generally, Trump is just benefiting from a lot of legal deductions.”

by Molly Callahan September 28, 2020

Police weren't indicted for the killing of Breonna Taylor. What happened?

A grand jury didn’t indict any police officers in connection with the killing of the 26-year-old medical worker in her apartment, and charged one former detective with wanton endangerment—an outcome that’s likely as much the result of the evidence that prosecutors from the Kentucky Attorney General’s office chose to present as what they didn’t, says Daniel Medwed, university distinguished professor of law and criminal justice.

by Molly Callahan September 24, 2020

Working with Ruth: A law professor reflects upon his time with RBG

In 1970, Michael Meltsner—who is currently the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern—was hired by Columbia University to create a clinical program within its law school. Several lawyers were hired afterward who helped run the program. Among them? Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

by Molly Callahan September 23, 2020

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