“The disruption of a week of this size is going to continue to have cascading effects … it’s got to be at least 60 days before things get sorted out and appear to be a bit back to normal,” said Stephen Flynn, professor of political science at Northeastern University. “This level of disruption cascaded after […]

“Unless you’re living under a rock, there’s no one in Minneapolis, and probably no one in the United States, who’s not familiar with George Floyd’s death,” said Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University. “You want people who have heard of the case but are willing to put aside any preexisting biases or […]

James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, maintains a database in collaboration with USA Today and the Associated Press that covers all mass shootings in the United States since 2006.

Such incidents take place, on average, about two dozen times per year, according to the Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University mass killing database (of which I am one of the principals).

Public health measures meant to contain the pandemic, “have still been extremely destabilizing”, said Rachel Rodgers, associate professor of psychology at Northeastern University. Changes to eating habits could be especially lasting for groups, such as “children, adolescents, and new college students who are transitioning to independent life decisions”, said Rodgers. “Having this happen at that […]

“It’s yet another indicator of exactly who these rioters were – they were clearly rioters who were supportive of Republican voices in Congress and Donald Trump in particular,” Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University, said of the donations.

“Let’s just not tempt fate, let’s just get rid of this damned thing,” said Samuel Scarpino, who directs the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University, regarding the pandemic.

“Absolutely, we should be concerned,” said Northeastern University epidemiologist Sam Scarpino. He attributed the increases both to the arrival of coronavirus variants and to people letting down their guard as Governor Charlie Baker has loosened coronavirus restrictions. “This is exactly the reason that so many of us were saying it was too soon to be relaxing measures.”

“The world is in the place we’re in because we’ve had this concentration of wealth and power. This would actually exacerbate and further concentrate power among a few,” said Jennie Stephens, director of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. “This is something that a few elites are going to control, and it’s […]

Jennie Stephens, director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, said that geoengineering research takes money and attention from the core problem, which is cutting emissions and helping vulnerable communities cope with the climate disruptions that are already happening. “We need to double down on bigger transformative changes,” Dr. Stephens […]