As we come to the end of Trump’s first year in office, a remarkable number of those Never-Trump conservatives have changed their minds. Whatever else may be said of Trump’s first year, he did not turn out to be a closet liberal. So is it time for conservative Never-Trumpers to quit their complaining and join […]

Comics as a form is about “distillation and condensation,” writes Hillary Chute in her probing and engrossing new book, “Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere’’ (Harper). The book by the Northeastern professor and Cambridge resident details the evolution of the form, scrutinizing early cartoons in newspapers and magazines, the mimeographed pamphlets of the ’zine movement, the rise […]

A more comprehensive version of the results of the study conducted by Anthony Braga, a criminal justice professor, and Jack McDevitt, director of Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Injustice, is expected in March or April.

“States that are seeing relatively little fentanyl in their supply, their overdose rates are more or less remaining flat,” said Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. But states that have been flooded by fentanyl are seeing overdose rates rise, he said.

This primary insanity—with even a hapless leader like de Blasio, whose notable achievements include fending off corruption allegations, being showered with media attention—can be traced back to 1968, explains William G. Mayer, a political scientist at Northeastern University who has written extensively about primary politics.

Lastly, it contrived to keep thousands of people in jail, even after the evidence came to light. “It was a catastrophic failure by the attorney general’s office, and calls into question the idea that prosecutors are beacons of fairness,” says Daniel Medwed of Northeastern University, author of Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its […]

I’ve been trying for a while to think through a column on what’s wrong with The New York Times’ political coverage. The topic is so broad that it defies easy analysis. The Times is too big and too good to disparage in categorical terms. For every example I could come up with of a story […]

For most of us, New Year’s resolutions are difficult promises to keep. Whether it’s saving money, eating healthier, or hitting the gym, by January 8, already 25 percent of our resolutions will be broken, according to David DeSteno. DeSteno is a professor of psychology at Northeastern. But, he says, there is a way to make keeping your […]

Peter Enrich, a Northeastern University law professor and expert in public finance who served as general counsel to the budget offices in both Democratic and Republican administrations, said that opinion has set the legal standard for the past four decades.

A couple years ago, researchers from Northeastern University and George Mason University published their findings from a study that sheds new light on a better way to deal with rejection. Their research is even more important today. The results of this study, “Unpacking Emotion Differentiation: Transforming Unpleasant Experience by Perceiving Distinctions in Negativity,” go against […]

The highest court in Massachusetts, the Supreme Judicial Court, holds oral arguments in appellate cases at the start of each month from September to May. WGBH’s Morning Edition anchor Joe Mathieu spoke with WGBH News’ legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed about a pair of legally significant gun possession cases on the docket this week.

Men also sometimes get teased by male co-workers for being an involved parent, making it less socially acceptable for them to take time off to care for their children, said Jamie Ladge, a management and organizational development professor at Northeastern University. “We always say women are their own worst enemies, but I think men are […]