In the Press Archive

Greater Boston: The Constitution bars insurrectionists from office. SCOTUS may let Trump run anyway

Gautam Mukunda was joined by Politico Senior Legal Affairs Reporter Josh Gerstein and Jeremy Paul, a professor of Constitutional Law at Northeastern University, to weigh in how the Supreme Court case could shake out.

Love, Throughline

Moira Weigel, assistant professor at Northeastern University and author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

CBS Money Watch

Inflation is cooling. So why are food prices, from steak to fast-food meals, still rising?

Greedflation refers to when companies hike product prices beyond the rate of inflation in order to juice their profits — a concept that Northeastern University economist William Dickens notes has become politicized, with Democrats typically leaning into the idea. Republicans, meanwhile, tend to blame the Biden administration for higher prices.

Woman’s horror story reflects loosely regulated nature of US fertility industry

“I think we should pause before creating additional criminal liability for people practicing reproductive medicine,” said Katherine L. Kraschel, assistant professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.

What to know about gambling addiction

“I have patients who gamble in the shower. I have patients who gamble before they get out of bed in the morning … there are no guardrails,” gambling addiction therapist Harry Levant told “60 Minutes” recently.

CBS News

The “Taylor Effect” at the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is being hosted in America’s entertainment capital, but the NFL could never have imagined the additional attention being paid to pro football thanks to Taylor Swift. CBS News’ Jamie Yuccas takes a look at the “Taylor Effect” and the star’s cultural and economic impact on the big game.

Healey relied on small circle to pick SJC nominees

The other three members were Kate Cook, Healey’s chief of staff and a former top attorney in the Deval Patrick administration; Paige Scott Reed, Healey’s chief legal counsel; and Mary Strother, Northeastern University’s general counsel.

The Ringer

Wait, Is Taylor Swift Actually a ~Good~ Poet?

Northeastern University postdoctoral teaching associate Catherine Fairfield says she firmly views Taylor as “under the big umbrella of poetics,” meaning that she employs poetry techniques and aesthetics in her writing.

Layoffs and closures have roiled the media industry. What will happen to the young people studying journalism?

“There is so much variation and fluctuation in news media these days,” said Meg Heckman, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University. “We have to teach our students how to navigate that and how to be flexible and versatile.”

From working with Black Panthers to calling for cease-fire, Barbara Lee stands by her beliefs

On a rainy January day, Rep. Barbara Lee wandered the campus of Mills College pointing out sites from her momentous past. The leafy, seminary-like grounds in Oakland look different from when she attended. To her frustration, even the school’s name has been changed to Northeastern University Oakland.

GBH

As war rages, a Newton-based charity fosters Mideast hope through ‘environmental diplomacy’

Lori Lefkovitz, who directs the Jewish Studies program at Northeastern University, has taken cohorts of students to the Arava Institute for coursework multiple times. “What I love about it for our students is the hope that the Arava Institute represents,” she said.

This ‘legend’ fought Big Tobacco and won. Now, he’s targeting a new ‘public health threat’

40 years ago, Richard Daynard and his colleagues at the Public Health Advocacy Institute took on — and beat — Big Tobacco.

Researchers decode the chemistry behind a deadly genetic disorder

How this entrepreneur built an e-commerce network for Latin America

This ‘super flu’ could cause widespread serious illness, experts say

Did Nick Reiner’s drug use mask longstanding mental health problems?