Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek on Wednesday that a Swift endorsement “could be worth its weight in gold for the Harris campaign.”

“TikTok has said that they really don’t want to have political content—that’s not what they want this platform to be for,” Laura Edelson, a researcher at Northeastern University who spent four months tracking the spread of pro-Palesetinian and pro-Israeli content on TikTok between early October 2023 and late January 2024. 

The challenge is figuring out what parts of a company need to be separated. John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University who recently served as an adviser to FTC chair Lina Khan, says the key is identifying businesses in which ownership by Google are “distorting its incentives.” 

“It’s easy for the government to win a case and lose the war,” said Northeastern University economics professor John Kwoka, a former adviser to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan. “I don’t underestimate the difficulties of this.”

There’s even a mathematical way to express the value of the kind of insight that led to Bezos’s early career switch. Physicist Albert-László Barabási, a Northeastern University-based expert on network theory, examined the careers of scientists and came up with this formula for success: S = Qr.

Analía Albuja, a psychology professor at Northeastern University who studies multiracial identities, is worried about the implication of Trump’s “turn Black” comments. Recent history shows that Trump’s stump speech messaging carries weight. 

“The character of the defendant’s use is an important factor, and in this case the use appears to be comment and criticism—and perhaps satire—which are core functions that fair use aspires to protect,” says Northeastern University law professor Alexandra J. Roberts.

“The summer job is back,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor of economics who studies youth development at Northeastern University. “I remember being completely dead wrong in summer of 2021 when I said, ‘Teenagers: just run out, grab these jobs, because this is not going to last.’”

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, clinical social worker and instructor at Northeastern University. She is the author of ”13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do″ and ”13 Things Mentally Strong Couples Don’t Do.”