“I wanted to take her off the pedestal as an icon of middle-class respectability. That’s not who she really was. She’s a radical; she’s a lefty,” says Strain, who is a professor at Northeastern University. “She wrote ‘Raisin’ as a protest play.” Strain’s many onscreen interviews include Hansberry’s sister, Mamie Hansberry, as well as the […]

I asked experts at the University of Chicago and Yale University, and they did a collective “huh?” about Chalmers and the thesis. I also tracked down James Fox of Northeastern University Law School, who has done serious research on serial killers. Whites, he made clear, are the biggest group, though nobody’s claimed there weren’t many […]

I wouldn’t call it a get out of jail free card, but maybe a get out of jail at a discount. Because what it does, this is a law that was passed when Governor Deval Patrick was in the State House. And it was designed to give trial judges wide latitude, discretion to award rehabilitation or counseling to […]

“What surprised me as we scripted this game are aspects I wouldn’t necessarily have thought of. I would focus on the legal aspect – what happens in the courtroom – but there are a lot of things that need to be done well before court … that people don’t think about: Making sure you’ve got […]

In a recent study the research and advocacy group Model Alliance conducted in conjunction with Harvard and Northeastern University, the results of which were published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, 81 percent of the models surveyed reported a body mass index of less than 18.5, which the World Health Organization considers underweight.

The prosecutions are just the latest crackdown in a drug war that has only ever exacerbated the problem, said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. “The opioid crisis, first and foremost, is an indictment of decades of failed drug policy,” said Beletsky. “We have consistently invested in punishment and […]

Northeastern University professor Max Abrahms called the mistake “dangerous” in light of the contentious relationship between the U.S. and North Korea, saying it could affect people’s trust in the government when a threat is real. “It is dangerous in terms of escalating the conflict,” Abrahms said. “It is possible we could have escalated, which would […]

In recent years, researchers have been trying to reinvigorate antibiotic discovery in several ways. A team from Northeastern University developed a specialized plastic chip that allowed them to culture a broader diversity of bacteria in the field, which led to the discovery of teixobactin from a meadow in Maine.

“If you have a single paper or a small chain, you have to do everything yourself and pay for it,” said Dan Kennedy, a media critic and Northeastern University journalism professor. A large chain such as GateHouse can spread out costs, do some things more efficiently, and potentially keep some small papers viable, he said. […]

Dr. Elwood’s position — and the Swiss government’s — is outside the scientific mainstream, said Joseph Ayers, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. “I think the idea of producing such a law is just a bunch of people anthropomorphizing lobsters,” Dr. Ayers said, adding that there were other possible […]

As Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, previously told me, “We have a lot of complex problems in this country. Without really addressing all of those physical, emotional, and mental health problems, just focusing on the opioid supply makes no sense — because people still have those problems.”

Trump still has confidence in himself as a campaigner, and Northeastern University expert Costas Panagopoulos said the president might be energized to aggressively campaign in the midterms later this year. “This is where we see Trump excelling most, or at the very least, his passion and his interest seems to lie in the game (of […]