John Kwoka, a professor at Northeastern University who previously worked at the US Federal Trade Commission, said the verdict was a warning to large corporations in other industries.  

But ousting Powell would be legally dubious, Dan Urman, director of the law and public policy minor at Northeastern University, told CBS News.

But that might not matter either, according to Alexandra Roberts, a trademark expert and professor of law and media at Northeastern University School of Law.

Advertisers and data brokers “are recording basically everywhere you go and then drawing inferences from that. So where do you like to shop? What kinds of things do you like to read?” said Christo Wilson, a computer science professor at Northeastern University in Boston who researches digital consumer protection issues. 

David Bau, who was doing similar work at Northeastern, told me: “I think that people will agree that it’s evidence that the black box is not totally opaque. I think we’ve turned a corner.”

Op-ed by Beth Simone Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University.

But John Kwoka, a Northeastern University economics professor who specializes in antitrust, thinks that supply and demand aren’t enough to explain what’s happening. “I’m one of the economists who’ve argued you need to break up some companies,” he says.

While MAHA voters have been upset at some of the administration’s actions that promote industry, it’s hard to know how that may play out in the midterms, said Christopher Bosso, a professor of public policy and politics at Northeastern University. 

Mark Herz spoke with mental performance coach and Northeastern University lecturer, Grayson Kimball, who’s been running marathons on and off for the last 25 years. What follows is a lightly edited transcript.

The writer holds a doctoral degree in mass communications and is an associate professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern University.

Brooke Foucault Welles, a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University who has studied “hashtag activism,” said online campaigns and slogans can frame the public’s thinking about divisive topics, noting that #SendBarron seems to be an attempt by some to call attention to “the class tensions around wars and the military.”

Etai Mizrav, a professor of education policy at Northeastern University, said the systemwide decline “tells us that families across the District, not just in one neighborhood or one type of school, are making different choices about public education than they were a year ago.”