Nick Beauchamp, an associate professor of political science at Boston’s Northeastern University, said there is an opportunity now for political leaders to “start framing their critiques of the others in words that explicitly denounce violence.”

James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University professor of criminology, law and public policy, said the country has experienced assassinations and attempts on the lives of politicians in the past. “What is different about today’s event is that it comes in a backdrop of political divisiveness in rancor that seems to be unmatched in our history,” […]

Nick Beauchamp, an associate professor of political science at Boston’s Northeastern University, said there is an opportunity now for political leaders to “start framing their critiques of the others in words that explicitly denounce violence.”

A semi-automatic firearm, which includes AR-15-style rifles, is a weapon where the shooter must pull the trigger to fire, but the next round is automatically loaded into the chamber, according to Northeastern University.

A letter to the editor by Arnold Arluke, a professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University.

“Carbon capture and storage essentially perpetuates fossil fuel reliance. It’s a distraction and a delay tactic,” says Jennie Stephens, a climate justice researcher at Northeastern University in Boston. She adds that there is little focus on understanding the psychological, social, economic and political barriers that prevent communities from shifting away from fossil fuels and forging […]

It’s worrisome “to see any part of the local TV infrastructure get worn down,” said Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy.

There’s a real chance prosecutors could be barred from retrying Read for murder and leaving a deadly accident scene, if it’s shown the jury did unanimously agree to acquit, according to Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who is not involved in the case.