Steve Granelli, a pop culture expert and associate teaching professor at Northeastern University, said last year, it’s becoming “its own subculture.” Granelli said, “For one’s fandom to be a part of your identity, it needs to be displayed.” Wicked collaborations, he explained, “are going to allow people to engage with their fandom materially.”

In previous shutdowns, the fate of SNAP had caused less concern because of the relative brevity of those closures and a broadly shared assumption that the government would continue to fund such programs, said Christopher Bosso, a professor of food policy at Northeastern University and the author of a book on the history of federal […]

Daniel Urman, a professor of law at Northeastern University, said he thinks the justices will also weigh considerations beyond the legal ones. The court, which has granted win after win to Trump in a series of temporary cases, may be looking for a chance to check the president with two other major cases dealing with […]

Abbie DeCamp, an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University who specializes in internet culture, said Boston has an outsized influencer culture thanks to the sheer volume of young people, restaurants and cultural institutions here.

Koen Pauwels, a professor of marketing at Northeastern University, said this wide target is also its weakness, and it is “very unlikely” that boycotters will succeed in causing companies to notice and stop running ICE ads.

Rebekah Tromble, a political scientist at Northeastern University, says they might do so vigorously. “In recent months, many of these companies have been more aggressively pushing back” against the DSA’s provisions, she says. 

Christopher Bosso, a Northeastern University professor of public policy and political science who has published a book about SNAP, said even a delay would be deeply felt. 

“Americans don’t like welfare, but they don’t want to see fellow Americans go hungry,” Christopher Bosso, a political-science professor at Northeastern University and a historian of SNAP, told me.

“There’s no way to sugarcoat it. Pretty quickly, as early as late next week, we’re going to start seeing evidence of real distress out there,” says Christopher Bosso, a professor of public policy and political science at Northeastern University.

Dan O’Brien, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, said the preliminary results could bode well for Santana.

Christopher Bosso, a Northeastern University professor of public policy and political science who has published a book about SNAP, said even a delay would be deeply felt. Beneficiaries often stock up on groceries at the start of the month, and stores often hold sales that encourage shoppers to do so.

“You need regulation when the industry has shown an inability and unwillingness to police itself,” said Harry Levant, director of gambling policy for the Public Health Advocacy Institute at the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.