Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University. She is the author of several books, including How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Follow her on Twitter @LFeldmanBarrett.

“Covering songs during a live performance, a band or an artist can do that based on blanket licenses that the venue owners get from the performance rights organization,” said Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University.

“If you suddenly see it in your social media feed or on TikTok or wherever, and see your favorite celebrity has done an interview or had a conversation with a politician, that politician is much more likely to get traction just by having that entry into people’s attention spans,” Josephine Harmon, an assistant professor of political […]

“They’re clearly emphasizing Harris,” said Katherine Haenschen, an assistant professor of communications and political science at Northeastern University. “It’s a good, solid logo.”

On Wednesday, Buttigieg will visit the Portland International Marine Terminal and the East Deering neighborhood of Portland, where a $25 million federal RAISE grant was awarded in June for traffic improvements around the future site of the Roux Institute, a research hub and graduate school that is part of Northeastern University

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.”

Dan Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and the author of the Media Nation blog, called the paper’s error “a really bad mistake.” “That said, the editor’s note was certainly a full and complete apology for what had gone wrong, and I’m glad they did it,” he added.

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.

NORC’s study found that 69 percent were people of color. According to a separate study by researchers at Northeastern and Harvard Universities, 20 percent of new gun buyers between 2019 and 2021 were Black and 20 percent were Hispanic.