“It isn’t like we don’t have plenty of law enforcement, interdiction and prosecutorial tools at our disposal to dismantle drug trafficking organization,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, who called the order the “latest episode in drug policy theatrics.”

Some roboticists say that remote training has its limits. “There’s no world in which an AI operator can train the system for every situation that may occur,” said Taskin Padir, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University Health and Law Professor Leo Beletsky said without the proper guardrails to ensure that medical standards are followed, large therapeutic communities in the U.S. could turn into something like work camps.

“When crime goes up and spikes upward, it tends to drop following that,” James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, told GBH’s Adam Reilly. “And when you have particularly low points, like we did last year, the tendency is to go up a little bit.”

Featured quote of the day by Alaina Kinol, a Northeastern University Ph.D. candidate, on the fossil fuel industry’s astroturfing of environmental wind energy opposition.

“It you’re spending $100 billion on anything, you’re going to have some leakage,” said Christopher Bosso, a professor of public policy and politics at Northeastern University who published a book on SNAP.

There have been 17 mass killings, 14 of which involved guns, recorded this year, according to a database maintained by Northeastern University, in partnership with the Associated Press and USA Today. 

“Here, the evidence about dismemberment and improper disposal of a body was overwhelming, so I suspect the defense goal was to concede that through the guilty pleas, and make the case all about the murder and the absence of direct evidence about intent and cause of death,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern […]

“Here, the evidence about dismemberment and improper disposal of a body was overwhelming, so I suspect the defense goal was to concede that through the guilty pleas, and make the case all about the murder and the absence of direct evidence about intent and cause of death,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern […]

The scope and horror of American gun violence can create the impression of an intractable problem. But that impression runs counter to the data, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Dr. Neil Maniar, professor of public health practice at Boston’s Northeastern University, shared details on the early severity of this emerging strain.

“It you’re spending $100 billion on anything, you’re going to have some leakage,” said Christopher Bosso, a professor of public policy and politics at Northeastern University who published a book on SNAP.