Op-ed by James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University and the author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.” He oversees the Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database.

Michele Polese is an assistant research professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University and expert in wireless networks. He called the plan to upgrade the air traffic control system an “initial investment” that in the long run, will allow for a financial savings on money spent on maintenance and updates.

Disbanding the DOJ’s Consumer Protection Branch removes the legal teeth needed to hold such violators accountable, said Darin Detwiler, an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University who wrote a book about food safety.

Consider Northeastern University, a popular Boston-based school with 16,000 undergraduates. Until the 1990s it was largely considered a commuter college. Over the last ten years its admissions rate has plunged from 32% to 5.2% in 2024, for its Class of 2028. 

Presidents have steered clear of direct involvement with the Justice Department since the abuses by President Nixon during the Watergate scandal. But Trump has changed that approach, choosing his Justice Department appointees “for loyalty, not independence,” said Dan Urman, who teaches courses on the Supreme Court at Northeastern University.

For a variety of reasons, elite college admissions are becoming an impossible dream—even for perfect students. Today, 19 of 20 applications submitted to nearly all of the schools in the Ivy League are rejected. And it’s not just the super elite: Admission rates are plunging at popular schools like Northeastern University and New York University.

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “The overall picture for Trump in these polls is not pretty. Even if some shifts appear insignificant, the trend lines suggest Trump approval is dropping in almost every state as well as in the national as a whole. Trump approval has dropped precipitously in key […]

Mentions insights from psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett at Northeastern University on how our brain interprets emotion.