In August the Supreme Court invalidated a moratorium on evictions issued by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And in July a federal appeals court rejected restrictions imposed by the CDC on cruise ships. Both rulings demonstrated the willingness of the judiciary to narrow the government’s public-health authority, says Wendy Parmet of Northeastern […]

Evan Selinger is a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity. 

While little can be done about the presence of glycans, revealing their significance in the spike’s mechanism could offer previously unknown opportunities to protect against COVID-19, says co-principal investigator Paul Whitford, an associate professor at Northeastern University and senior scientist at CTBP.

A Northeastern University study of Boston Public Schools graduates in the class of 2000 found that, seven years after finishing high school, for every 100 men who had earned a four-year college degree, 146 women had done so, a gap that was much greater among Black and Hispanic students. 

Researcher Sam Scarpino with The Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute and Northeastern University said it’s best to use an analogy to explain why. Scarpino says to take a football team with 20 players. During its first season, ten players wear helmets on the field and ten do not. At the end of the season, two […]

But as the aforementioned Selinger, a professor of philosophy at MIT and an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University, argued over the weekend in a Boston Globe Ideas piece, there are times when slippery-slope arguments, often bogus, are sometimes valid.

The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill now moving through Congress will bring money to cities for much-needed investments in roads, bridges, public transit networks, water infrastructure, electric power grids, broadband networks, and traffic safety. Joan Fitzgerald is a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University.

A group of researchers from Northeastern University and Tufts University has called for funds from President Biden’s infrastructure bill to be diverted to dismantling “racist infrastructure” which is currently disproportionally impacting minority neighborhoods in the United States.

Militant groups like the Taliban benefit from presenting a moderate face, says Max Abrahms, an expert in international security and professor at Northeastern University.

Death rows are “very expensive to maintain,” James Alan Fox, Ph.D., a professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University, told The Crime Report in an interview.

Joan Fitzgerald Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University Many urban highways built in the 1950s and 1960s were deliberately run through neighborhoods occupied by Black families and other people of color, walling these communities off from jobs and opportunity.

Nationwide, as many as 27% of all healthcare workers are still unvaccinated, according to data compiled by Northeastern University.