“The piece is about damage to the natural environment from invasive species, and about harm from invasion of privacy,” said Ed Andrews, who is an associate professor in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. Being observed, or even a perception of surveillance, can be traumatic, he said.

The group Project Veritas was caught this week trying to trick the Washington Post into publishing phony sexual assault allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. It is not the first time that that group has used hidden recording devices to try to goad reporters, media executives and others into making unflattering and sometimes unprofessional […]

“What it says about the cases is that we no longer can trust the integrity of the drug test and that therefore the convictions stand on very shaky ground,” said WGBH News legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed.

Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun argues that we’re having the wrong debate on taxes.

That aggression, when referred to in women, is frequently described with words like “bossy” and “bitchy.” The terms have become so engendered that Benjamin Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University who teaches a class on reading digital history, data-mapped the words used to describe professors at the top of their fields, based […]

There is evidence that other agencies are making similar decisions. Earlier this year, a project coordinator at a Department of Energy lab emailed a researcher at Northeastern University asking her to adjust the language a public abstract for research funded by the DOE.

The author of the longstanding study, Northeastern University economist Barry Bluestone, may be forgiven for sounding repetitive. He has hit on some of the same themes in his last few annual reports — namely, that Boston is carrying the brunt of the region’s housing needs. Yet even so, working families are being priced out by […]

“It was such an amazing piece of journalism,” said Dan Kennedy, a professor at Northeastern University. “One can only imagine the world of hurt we’d all be in journalism if the Post had been taken in” by the ruse, he said.

“What we need to see is the rest of Greater Boston catching up with the city, learning from the city, and finding out how to permit more quickly and to produce the housing we’re going to need throughout the region,” said Boston Foundation senior fellow and Northeastern University public policy professor Barry Bluestone, who put […]

The United States is awash with guns. Currently, there are about 270 million firearms in civilian hands, but half of those weapons are owned by just 3 percent of the population, according to a national survey conducted last year by Northeastern University researcher Matthew Miller, a professor of health sciences and epidemiology.

In a paper published in the journal Business Horizons, Melissa S. Baucus, formerly of the University of Otago in New Zealand, and Cheryl R. Mitteness of Northeastern University say it’s easy for swindlers to circumvent safeguards in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, the 2012 federal law allowing startups to raise up to $1 million […]

“The purpose of terrorism is to intentionally sow fear in the public and thereby change the status quo,” said Max Abrahms, a political science professor at Northeastern University who researches terrorism. “In that sense, terrorism is very effective. It does what it sets out to do — it creates terror.”