One of the six famous Mitford sisters, Jessica — known as Decca, a childhood nickname — was a left-wing activist first and muckraking journalist second, best known for “The American Way of Death,” her scathing 1963 exposé of the funeral industry.

That’s the message in a new report from Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project, which last month released a “survival guide” that urges local stations to prioritize digital-first programming to reach younger audiences that don’t tune into the traditional broadcast.

Now Carla Kaplan brings us Troublemaker, the first biography of Jessica, the runaway Mitford who decamped to America, joined the Communist Party, and became a successful author, named by Time magazine as “Queen of the Muckrakers.”

In the wake of all this, Carla Kaplan’s exhaustively researched and thorough account of Jessica (or Decca, as everyone knew her and Kaplan calls her throughout) comes as a welcome relief. 

“Sir Isaac Newton never studied crime, but he says ‘What goes up must come down,’” said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. 

The mass killings — defined as incidents in which four or more people are killed in a 24-hour period, not including the killer — are tracked in the database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Fox, who manages the database, says mass killings were down about 24% this year compared […]

The Stockton shooting was the country’s 17th mass killing this year, the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. But experts say that the decline could represent a return to average levels of mass killings following an unusual spike in 2018 […]

These recaps may signal more transparency for users, because they can see some data in their hands. And products like Wrapped have become particularly popular because they’re personalized and now designed to share online — leaving many to look forward to it as an “annual ritual” of sorts, notes Yakov Bart, a marketing professor at […]

Joseph Aoun, the president of Northeastern University and a pioneer in thinking on AI whose book Robot Proof was first published in 2017, says: “Higher education was first in denial, and is now integrating it as a technology. The third phase will be to integrate it into our curricula.”

“Sir Isaac Newton never studied crime, but he says ‘What goes up must come down,’” said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. 

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “Huge shifts in a Democratic direction in all counties in Tennessee’s special election last night does not bode well for Republicans in the upcoming 2026 midterms.

A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.