With the release of Steven Spielberg’s new movie, The Post, we look back at the battle between the Post and the Nixon Administration over the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study about the Vietnam War that revealed the government’s lies about U.S. involvement in the conflict. The movie focuses on Katherine Graham’s role as publisher […]

Hospitals’ community benefit didn’t really budge after the ACA. That’s according to a study led by Gary Young of Northeastern University, which found that tax-exempt hospitals spent 8.1 percent of revenue on community benefit in 2014, a slight bump from 7.6 percent in 2010 but in line with historic trends. The biggest portion of that […]

“If the judge feels there’s sufficient information to assess the individual, a warrant for arrest is issued,” says Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. “The cops arrest the person, take them into a holding cell and then they undergo an evaluation by a clinical professional.”

Facebook has fixed the problem, Wired reports, but not before researchers from Northeastern University in Boston, US, were able to identify 19 personal phone numbers.

Daniel Medwed, Northeastern law professor and WGBH legal analyst, says that creating uncertainty around an industry that already struggles to obtain the traditional tools of business, including investment and bank services, could hamper the recreational marijuana trade in Massachusetts. “Like any nascent, burgeoning industry, you need financial backing to be successful,” he said. “And I can imagine a lot […]

All of which is to say that when Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” was released late last week, the ground was already plowed and well-fertilized. So it’s no surprise that it became an immediate sensation. If Wolff were providing us with new information, we would need time to process it, to […]

The data used in the San Francisco study came from a group of researchers at Northeastern University in Boston who opened a series of Uber and Lyft accounts across the city and used them to track when the nearest available vehicles accepted or completed ride requests. “The Northeastern researchers collected information on vehicle locations every […]

Ed Sweda Jr., a senior attorney with Northeastern University School of Law, said the decision not to hear the appeal “is a big victory for Engle plaintiffs and their attorneys.” “This makes litigating these (potential 8,000) Engle progeny cases much easier than if the plaintiff lawyers had to re-prove these issues in each individual case.” […]

Northeastern University will name Jeff Konya its new director of athletics. Konya joins Northeastern after 3½ years at Oakland University in Michigan, where the school was the winningest program in the Horizon League over the past three seasons. He was recognized as one of Under Armour’s Athletic Directors of the Year in 2016-17 and is […]

Overall, Gary Young, director of Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, and his coauthors found spending for all types of community benefit “remained largely unchanged during the study period.” Tax-exempt hospitals’ average spending for all community benefits increased from 7.6 percent of operating expenses in 2010 to 8.1 percent in 2014, but […]

The issue has even caught the attention of the FBI. The agency recently began collecting data on crimes against animals. Northeastern Professor Emeritus, Jack Levin, wrote a book called Extreme Killing, and says he knows why the agency is interested in animal abusers. “Animal abusers are five times more likely to commit acts of human violence, murder, […]

“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.