“She’s certainly a bigger celebrity than Trump ever was, especially in terms of connecting with her audience. Obviously this has given her an opportunity. What does she do next with it?” said Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has written on the intersection of show business and politics.

“This is not easy for hospitals to do,” said Gary Young, the study’s lead author and director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Northeastern University in Boston. “By tradition, by the nature of their resources, hospitals have not been oriented to prevention, they’ve been oriented to treatment.”

“There have been data brokers for years but typically to get access to that data you had to sign a contract with them,” says Alan Mislove, a professor at Northeastern who worked on the project that exposed the problem. “Facebook and Google are de facto data brokers—they don’t sell data but they are making that […]

“The person that you trust might be totally trustworthy but just make a mistake by clicking on the wrong link that downloads a virus or getting hacked somehow and compromising your username and password without even meaning to,” said Woodrow Hartzog, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.

As Northeastern University economist Alicia Sasser Modestino puts it: “We have gone through all the easy-to-employ people, and we’re down to the hard-to-employ people.”

Ted Clark, executive director of the Center for Family Business, said difficulties in transferring a business to a succeeding generation can be many. The greatest is often the lack of money. “One of the huge problems is extracting value from the business and still being able to transfer it from one generation to the next,” […]

By focusing on publisher Katharine Graham, The Post has the potential to shift our collective understanding of women’s roles in media, entertainment and civic life. In a refreshing departure from the shallow, oversexualized way Hollywood typically depicts women in journalism, Meryl Streep portrays Graham as a serious newspaperwoman navigating complex social and political challenges. Her role should […]

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.