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Worcester Telegram

Sipping the suds of revolution: Taverns were critical to independence

“Beer was part of everything,” said historian Malcolm Purinton of taverns, a professor of history, beer and food at Northeastern University. Where they drank beer mattered. Taverns played a crucial part in these revolutionary talks, as critical hubs and gathering spaces.

Ted Landsmark was attacked with an American flag 50 years ago. What does the flag mean to him now?

It’s been 50 years since he was attacked, and Landsmark is now 80 years old. He’s a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University. For years, Landsmark said he did not have a copy of Forman’s photograph because the image was copyrighted, and the copyright holder was reluctant to give it to […]
The Globe and Mail

Trump’s growing powers as president will have effects beyond his term David Shribman

“Agencies are no longer insulated from presidential control, even if Congress intended them to be,” said Daniel Urman, who teaches constitutional law at Northeastern University. “The era of independent agency independence, save for the Federal Reserve, is officially over.”
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Chasing imaginary diversity demons won’t save our declining institutions

Donathan L. Brown, Ph.D. is an associate professor at Northeastern University, a former U.S. Fulbright Professor and the author of five books on civil rights and public policy.
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Progressive Democrats Continue to Shape Midterms

“Primary elections tend to attract fewer and more extreme voters, so these voters are more influential in these types of elections,” Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek. 
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‘We’re Pushing Financial Literacy’: Kalshi CEO Claims His App Stops Instagram Brain Rot. Experts Aren’t Convinced

“It’s definitely a provocative way of looking at what prediction markets are,” John Wihbey, E.d.D., a professor of media and communications technology and co-founder of the Institute for Information, the Internet, and Democracy at Northeastern University, told Inc. 
The Christian Science Monitor

After more than 100 years of birthright citizenship, Supreme Court appears skeptical of change

With that argument, the Trump administration is “trying to characterize that [Wong] decision as more narrow than it was,” says Rachel Rosenbloom, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law.

Who Can Sell ‘6 7’ Chicken Nuggets? One Company Is Asking a Court to Decide.

“You can’t be the only producer of nuggets in the shape of ‘6 7,’ just like you can’t be the only producers of chicken dinos, or unicorn mac and cheese, or fish sticks in the shapes of fish,” said Prof. Alexandra Roberts, the faculty director of the Center for Law, Information & Creativity at Northeastern […]
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Boston named the most collision-prone city in the US — yet again

“We have other data on what really counts in terms of safety, so let’s not be misled by data on collisions that need an insurance claim,” Peter Furth, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Northeastern University, told the Globe last year.
WCVB TV

More than half of social media child safety features aren’t working as advertised, new research finds

 To the Cybersafety Research Center, a joint initiative from New York University and Northeastern University, the findings show social media harms to kids “are not hypothetical, and that when they do occur the consequences can be irreversible.”
Fortune Greece

New research exposes measures to protect minors on social media

Major social media platforms have been touting parenting tools as a key part of their user safety strategy for years. But new research from the Cybersafety Research Center, an initiative of New York University and Northeastern University, finds that more than half of these features either don’t work as advertised or are so difficult to detect that they are ineffective in practice .
Mass Live

The US Supreme Court just supercharged presidential power. Here’s why you need to care

“The only sane reading of what’s happening in our court now is that the court is continuing to expand unbridled executive power,” Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University Law School in Boston, said.