“Public interest and focus have a lot to do with whether people can see themselves as a victim, whether it could have happened to them,” said James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University professor of criminology, law and public policy. “If it happens in a workplace, people think, ‘That’s not like my workplace.’”

Kay Mathiesen, an associate professor at Northeastern University who focuses on information and computer ethics, said it’s too early to say what effect the group will have. But she lauded its focus on research and development as something that can benefit governments: “We need good policy-making that is aware of the direction that these technologies […]

“The meaning we give to these masks matter,” Liz Bucar, a professor of religion at Northeastern University, told our colleague Robin Givhan about society’s sartorial shift.  

U.S. involvement is important because of the large role that American tech firms play globally and its historic advocacy for human rights, said Kay Mathiesen, an associate professor focused on computer ethics at Northeastern University in Boston.

But Tiffany Joseph, a sociologist at Northeastern University who studies health access in Boston’s immigrant neighborhoods, told me, “You should not underestimate how much the fear of ICE raids and the public-charge rule worsened the pandemic in Chelsea.”   “If you go to the hospital and it turns out you’re [COVID-19]-negative, and actually what you […]

Sam Scarpino is a professor of network science who heads up Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab. 

“A few ultra-wealthy individuals are making decisions about the future of the planet with little accountability or transparency,” said Matthew Nisbet, a professor of communication and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston. 

—Mr. Kaufman is director of the School of Journalism at Northeastern University. This essay is adapted from his new book, “The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China,” which will be published by Viking on June 2.

“Thus far, the fragmented data we are getting from HHS, state, and local sources paint a very fragmented, but troubling picture,” Northeastern University health policy expert Leo Beletsky told BuzzFeed News in an email. “Systematic national data are necessary to understand the full scope of the issue and to target resources where they are most […]

“I do think there’s maybe a lack of trust about the science of trust in science, though,” said David Lazer, a professor of political science at Northeastern University.

“For many of us, there really is no comparison. You’d have to go back to the Vietnam War, which started 20 years before I was born,” said Assistant Professor Samuel V. Scarpino, Ph.D., of Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute. “There were about 50,000 deaths in battle during Vietnam, which is a war that lasted almost […]

“The headlines tomorrow will read 100,000 deaths,” says Gregory Goodale, an expert in political communication at Northeastern University. “Does Trump want Fox News to carry that headline, or Joe Scarborough is a murderer or Joe Biden is PC for wearing a mask or mail-in voting will rig the election?”