What happened in Gaza last Friday was, in fact, quite different from what many people might assume, says Northeastern professor Dov Waxman. While the violence has dominated the news headlines, it is not the only big story from that day.

But even though AR-15-style rifles have been used in many of the deadliest mass shootings, handguns are used more often, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist and researcher at Northeastern University, and co-author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.”

In the first week of every month between September and May, the state Supreme Judicial Court hears a number of oral arguments on cases that have made it to the highest levels of the state’s criminal justice system. WGBH’s Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed joined Morning Edition to break down some of […]

While shooting incidents involving students have decreased in the last two decades — according to researchers at Northeastern University, four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 1990s — young organizers hope to harness society’s heightened fear of school shootings to make gun reform an issue that could make or […]

“If the obstacles of the prosecution at the first trial related to the credibility of the survivor and why Bill Cosby would act this way, then I think the #MeToo movement has provided a cultural context and validation of Constand’s account,” Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, […]

Boston — where King had deep ties, earning his doctorate and meeting his wife — has a history of racial discord. Eight years after King’s assassination, at the height of turbulent school desegregation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph from an anti-busing rally at City Hall showed a white man attacking a black bystander with an American […]

“It has now been eight years since the merger and the world does not look a lot different,” said John E. Kwoka Jr., a professor of economics at Northeastern University and a longtime critic of the merger.

For other cities considering taking a lead from the likes of Milwaukee, it’s a matter of approach, according to Annalisa Onnis-Hayden, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University. “Welcome the water, but find a way to use those spaces as mitigation. It looks a lot better than building walls around the city.”

A recent poll by Northeastern University and the Gallup organization found that 85 percent of Americans use one AI application or another — navigation, streaming, personal assistance, “smart” home devices like “self-learning” thermostats, that sort of thing. Of those surveyed, 79 percent said AI had a “very or mostly positive impact on their lives so […]

The Cambridge Analytica debacle reveals that the system worked exactly as intended. We never stood a chance, writes Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.

Dr. Kim Lewis, co-founder of biotechnology company NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, Director of Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, and lead scientist on the team that discovered the promising new antibiotic Teixobactin being developed at NovoBiotic.

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, welcomed the investigation and said discontinuing the use of addiction medication for those in state custody is “barbaric,” especially for those who are civilly committed to addiction treatment.