“What the Supreme Court has done is to facilitate expanding gambling basically to everybody’s desktop,” said critic Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University, who runs Public Health Advocacy Institute.

“I fear Dershowitz has allowed his celebrity to stand as an apology for a great danger to the civil liberties he claims to cherish,” said Northeastern Law School professor Michael Meltsner, former first assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “Alan is fiddling while Washington burns.”

Dov Waxman, Northeastern University professor of political science, discusses what’s behind the clashes on the Gaza-Israel border with David Westin and Shery Ahn on “Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power.”

After the first Annual State of Critical Thinking report came out in 2017, MindEdge’s Frank Connolly interviewed Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy about his reactions to the study.  Kennedy reminded us that fake news is nothing new, citing examples such as a fake story about the 1890 explosion of the USS Maine in Cuba that led to war.

Sarah J Jackson, a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University, believes context is the key to anchoring Me Too. “I wouldn’t call hashtag ‘Me Too’ a movement at all,” she says. “I would call it a campaign that is part of a larger movement. So I would call women’s rights the movement, and feminism […]

If enacted, the rule could force a mother to weigh the need for hospital inpatient care for an ailing newborn against losing her legal immigration status, says Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.

“Lots of serial killers develop gradually. A lot of them start with lesser offenses, develop to sex offenses and eventually murder,” said James Alan Fox, professor of criminology at Northeastern University and author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.”

It’s official: Coffee sold in California must carry cancer warnings, a Los Angeles judge ruled this week. The warnings are required by California law, Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said, because of the presence of acrylamide, a chemical that is formed when coffee beans are roasted and that remains in the final beverage.

In an attempt to address Mark’s inquiry, I presented the following questions to both an expert in the field, Christo Wilson, assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University and a member of the university’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, and Brooks Hocog, a Google spokesman.

Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox panned reinstating the death penalty as a costly waste of time. “This is a foolish attempt because it’s not economically wise,” Fox said. “It’s not a pressing issue. We don’t have soaring crime rate, and we have other issues that require resources much more. … I’m not saying we […]

“Since there is zero evidence that a measure of the sort actually reduces overdose, diversion, or other problems, this is nothing more than window dressing,” said Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. “It is designed to signal to the public that Walmart is quote-unquote serious about addressing the opioid […]

After President Trump’s announcement that the United States will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, we check-in with experts about what this will mean for Iran and the future of U.S. diplomacy. Max Abrahms, political science professor at Northeastern University, comments.