Opposition to military commitments with foreign allies is a political stance with a long history in the Republican Party, says Edward Miller, a political historian at Northeastern University. 

So the organization partnered with Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland, where graduate students in an experiential learning course spent 12 weeks this spring analyzing data to pinpoint where LifeFlight could be more efficient.

James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University, said it’s unclear if the RNC is at greater risk because of Saturday’s events, but he “wouldn’t feel any greater threat.”

Meta’s move to stop amplifying news in user feeds may be the right one for shareholders as executives have come to view moderating that type of content as an unsustainable business cost, said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University. 

Loper, however, will make the FTC more cautious about pursuing companies like Teami Tea, which in 2020 agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims that celebrities didn’t reveal their Instagram posts promoting the brand were sponsored, said Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University.

Jacqueline McCleary, an assistant professor in physics at Northeastern University who was not involved in the study, said the new research helps inform “a decades-long debate over what role, exactly, climate change will play in the changing length of the day.”

“There are many things that people desperately want to know that we just don’t know yet,” said Laura Edelson, a professor at Northeastern University.

But with television coverage, the appearance of conflict within the party became politically risky and the events morphed into something more scripted, according to Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University.

“What we don’t want is to be losing critical minerals from the supply chain,” says Martin Bazant, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT who leads the Center for Battery Sustainability, a joint effort of MIT and Northeastern University. “We have to be able to recycle them.”

“You never know what may happen and who might break through for whatever reason,” Costas Panagopoulos, a professor and chair of political science at Boston’s Northeastern University, said. “There are lots of developments that can happen on the campaign trail.”

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,” […]