“It really is like Godzilla versus Kong,” said Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University. But for all the irresistible allure of watching two of the world’s most powerful men savage each other, there is much substance at stake.

Daniel Urman, a Northeastern University law professor, told Newsweek no one really knows when someone will leave the court, but that Alito and Thomas would be the most likely to retire to ensure someone with similar legal views could replace them on the court. But it may not necessarily be likely because they are now in the […]

“There is this sentiment that the brain is for thinking,” said Jordan Theriault(opens a new tab), a neuroscientist at Northeastern University who was not involved in the new analysis. 

“We may be at an inflection event,” said Mai’a Cross, a professor of international affairs and diplomacy at Northeastern University. “The nature of warfare has transformed.”

To understand what was happening, I met with Rachel Hopman, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at Northeastern University. She told me about the nature pyramid.

“Then you dry up advertising for the whole ecosystem,” said John Wihbey, an associate professor of media innovation at Northeastern University. “Advertising boycotts and pressure on advertisers by civic groups — whether that be researchers, watchdogs, advocates, trade associations, whoever — are just completely constitutionally protected speech that are core to what the country stands […]

“Sure, [a sustained signal] happens in emotion,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University. “But it also happens in all kinds of other instances,” like when a person is concentrating or remembering.

James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University, told Newsweek the increase is “in all likelihood an aberration that will be reversed next year.”

“It’s been a very demoralizing trend, where we’ve seen oftentimes double-digit year-over-year increases, and so this decline is a welcomed change,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.

“Companies are resourceful, they are clever at identifying trends and studying their environment and their customers’ needs, but those needs change and corporations adjust,” said Amir Grinstein, a marketing professor at Northeastern University.

“One of the things that record labels historically do is prevent artists from rerecording their early versions of songs, because they wanna have those recordings in their catalog,” said David Herlihy, an intellectual property, new media and entertainment lawyer who also teaches at Northeastern University in Boston. “Which is ridiculous.”

Corporate social and brand activism peaked between 2016 and 2022, observed Northeastern University marketing professor Amin Grinstein, but most recently, it has been in retreat.