And finally, as argued by Northeastern University Professor Matthew Nisbet, horse race journalism leads to coverage that seems to present a false equivalency in the treatment of meaningful issues and allows more readily for the emergence of so-called “fake news.”

Former president Bill Clinton took on the politics of discrimination and division in a panel discussion in Boston Friday night, never naming President Trump but pointedly addressing recent controversies that have been associated with the president’s rhetoric and the views of some Trump supporters. Speaking on a panel before a crowd of more than 1,000 […]

The 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting kicks off Friday at Northeastern University, bringing together more than 1,000 students and experts to hear from former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and more over the course of the three-day event. From Oct. 13 to 15, the CGI U will feature seminars, workshops and panel discussions in order to […]

Hundreds of college students from across the U.S. will be coming to Boston for a leadership conference created by former President Bill Clinton. Northeastern University is hosting the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting, which gathers students and experts in a variety of fields to discuss solutions to pressing problems.

If there is any bright spot it is that little more than a third of American households own a gun now, compared with 50 percent in earlier decades. Still, this has driven the industry to try to sell more guns to fewer Americans, from battlefield-type weapons to the concealed-carry pistols marketed as stylish vigilante accessories. […]

“Most of us don’t realize how much identity information is packed into our voices, even in a single word,” says Rupal Patel, a speech scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, who was not involved in the study.

How could someone mistake the rush of an infection for the fever of love? A psychologist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, Barrett has spent her career examining the ways we construct emotions, culminating in a recent book – How Emotions Are Made – and her experience on that date is just one of many examples that […]

Kristen Lee, lead faculty for behavioral science at Northeastern University in Boston, specializes in studying self-care and resilience. She agrees that we must be careful to watch for “insularity,” as she calls it, lest we hoard concern only for those “on our own little island.” Lee also says we should be careful not to project […]

One day at graduate school, one of Lisa Feldman Barrett’s colleagues asked her out on a date. Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern Universtiy, didn’t really fancy him, but she had been in the lab all day and felt like a change of scenery, so she agreed to go to the local coffee shop. As they […]

The legal difference between murder and involuntary manslaughter is the defendant’s mental state, Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, told the AP.

New technology being developed at Northeastern University could give first responders a new tool to beat that clock.

The Democrats are moving left. This is objectively true, but it also represents a challenge for those mainstream journalists whose equilibrium has been disrupted by the Republican lurch to the extreme right over the past several decades and, more recently, by the rise of Donald Trump. The challenge can be described this way: Can the […]