Young children are forced to cower behind locked doors while an adult in black shouts threats and shoots blanks in the hallways. Northeastern professor James Alan Fox argues that this is not helping.

“Going from six to five movie studios will be a good test to see if the Justice Department’s view of horizontal mergers changes,” said John Kwoka, antitrust expert and professor of economics at Northeastern University. “The agency has taken a somewhat more vigorous approach to horizontal mergers in past years. How that portends for the […]

Dov Waxman, a professor of political science, Israel studies and international affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, noted that the Trump administration has yet to nominate ambassadors in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt – all countries vehemently opposed to the US leader’s decision.

A lethal robotic future is underway. And, if the recently-released short film “Slaughterbots” is any indication, that future is bleak, argues Northeastern professor Denise Garcia.

More broadly, how well the programs work is still an open question. “My take is that PDMPs in and of themselves have not proved their value in curbing the [overdose] crisis,” said Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University law professor specializing in drug policy. While such real-time alerts from datasets are a “no brainer and long […]

Using data gathered from more than 14 millions reviews on RateMyProfessor.com, professor Ben Schmidt of Northeastern University found that students in music were more than twice as likely to use the word genius about a male professor than a female one. (Music students were also more likely to use the word genius than students from […]

Dan Kennedy, associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, said the Herald’s print circulation loss is part of a larger pattern newspapers are dealing with across the country, namely weak print circulation numbers and declining print advertising revenue. And, Kennedy said, the paper’s primary distribution method — via newsstand or retail store — isn’t exactly […]

Reviews are crucial to what retailers call “conversion,” turning browsers into buyers. A study published last year by researchers at Northeastern University found that items for sale on a website that included reviews were up to 270% more likely to entice browsers to buy than items that did not have reviews.

There’s other evidence that as terrorism becomes part of the fabric of the everyday, it loses some of its power to disrupt and frighten. Dov Waxman, a professor of political science and Israel studies at Northeastern University, studied the impact of Palestinian terrorism in Israel during the second intifada, an uprising in the early 2000s […]

Researchers say the number of mass shootings has remained fairly steady over the past three decades with occasional fluctuations. “Some years are worse than others and bad years tend to be followed by not so bad years,” said James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has been studying mass shootings since […]

Radio Boston spoke with Northeastern professor Max Abrahms to better understand soft targets in terrorist attacks.

It is nearly impossible to prevent an attack like the one that occurred Monday morning in the subway station underneath the Port Authority Bus Terminal. But it is possible to react swiftly and decisively. So says Stephen Flynn, founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University.