NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with journalism and communication studies associate professor Meredith Clark of Northeastern University about her project “Archiving Black Twitter.”

“Behind the smokescreen of ‘holding someone accountable,’ prosecutors are increasingly manufacturing such homicide charges against friends, family members, and partners of people who die of accidental overdoses,” said Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University professor of law and health sciences who leads the Health in Justice Action Lab. 

Since 2006, at least 2,884 people have died in 554 mass killings, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. 

Kasia Madera hears from Nancy Kimelman, a Professor in Economics at Northeastern University.

Dr. Nancy Kimelman, professor at Northeastern University, joins to discuss the latest on the debt ceiling and the potentially devastating economic consequences of a default. 

Even so, Mr. Bunker said demand to fill positions this summer was strong. Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor of public policy and urban affairs and economics at Northeastern University in Boston, agreed, though “it may not be quite as gangbusters as last summer,” she said.

Dr. Nancy Kimelman, professor at Northeastern University, joins to discuss the latest on the debt ceiling and the potentially devastating economic consequences of a default.