Economists have been sounding the alarm about this trend for a while now. John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University, has literally written the book on the follies of the modern age of antitrust. In a new report, he shows how much more complacent the government has gotten toward oligopolies. The government still doesn’t tend […]

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said he would be surprised if Carter receives the maximum sentence of 20 years. But he expects Moniz will reach some kind of a compromise or middle ground that would include some prison time.

Waiting for enough users to report a particular story may take too long. By the time two fact-checking organizations research and debunk a story — even if it’s the next day — “it may be too late and the damage is done,” said David Lazer, a professor at Northeastern University who has done extensive research […]

Sean Gallagher, the executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education & Talent Strategy at Northeastern University, says the university approach to bootcamp has a unique leg-up to its for-profit industry counterparts. But that doesn’t make them immune to the same fate. “Universities are more conservative and stable [than for-profit schools], and […]

At the company’s most recent Food Safety Day, Darin Detwiler, an assistant dean at Northeastern University and a member of QAmagazine’s Advisory Board, spoke about the personal impacts of food poisoning. Detwiler’s son was one of four children who died as a result of the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak. “You only have the luxury […]

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said he would be surprised if Carter receives the maximum sentence of 20 years. But he expects Moniz will reach some kind of a compromise or middle ground that would include some prison time. “I imagine that she’ll get prison time,” he said, adding that a five […]

On this episode of The Secret Worlds of Boston Comic Con. there’s more to comics than superheroes! We explore the comics and geek culture that take on real-world social and political issues: how fantasy worlds are being used to create change in the real world, including insight from Northeastern professor Hillary Chute.

A smarter profit-sharing system would differentiate better between, say, a video of Queen performing “Bohemian Rhapsody” or the same song playing in the background of someone’s wedding video. “What is needed is a more nuanced approach to how stuff gets monetized,” says Robert Lyons, a former digital media executive who is now a visiting lecturer […]

“As abhorrent and horrific as Michelle Carter’s behavior was, and it was appalling, I’m not sure it’s manslaughter,” said David Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston.

Leo Beletsky is a Northeastern University law professor who conducted a small study of Reddit users’ experiences with PDMPs. “In the Reddit posts, the picture that comes out is, once you’re rebuked by a provider based on PDMP data, that influences how patients decide to seek help or not seek help,” Beletsky says. “The collateral […]

“The thing is, Amazon is hiring. And so they are growing. The trick is they’re probably not growing fast enough to offset the decline in retail employees,” said Bruce Clark, a business professor at Northeastern University. Clark says the jobs gained are not balancing out the jobs lost in part because the average Amazon employee […]

Michelle Carter was convicted of manslaughter in June for convincing her friend Conrad Roy, largely through text messages, to kill himself by carbon monoxide poisoning. On Thursday, she will have her sentencing hearing. Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed discussed the sentencing process on Tuesday with “Morning Edition.”