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The ‘Cold War’ between Iran and Saudi Arabia is heating up. Here are five things you should know about it

As the threat from a common enemy “has imploded, tensions between these historic adversaries have escalated,” said Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston.
WGBH

Northeastern celebrates its veterans

As students went to and from class Friday on Northeastern’s campus, a red, white and blue wreath decorated the university’s veterans memorial. It was placed there after the school’s annual Veteran’s Day ceremony, during which more than 100 students, veterans, alumni, family and community members gathered to celebrate those who serve their country.
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Tracing the education of Michelangelo

Northeastern professor Cammy Brothers discusses the Met’s new exhibition on Michelangelo, which shows how the master used drawing to experiment, refine and expand his work—both on and off the page.
U.S. News & World Report

Consider MBA scholarships that reward military service

Sometimes, business school applicants with a military background qualify for more than enough service-related scholarship money to attend graduate school for free. If you want reassurance that it is possible, consider the story of John Healy, a first-year MBA student at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business who received a full ride by capitalizing on service-related scholarship programs. Healy, a husband […]
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Addressing inmate addiction must be a priority

The criminal justice reforms recently passed by the Massachusetts Senate and released by the House Committee on Ways and Means provide sensible reform to failed criminal justice approaches, including doing away with some mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug offenses. These reforms are both pragmatic and just. By shifting the focus away from laws and prosecutorial […]
The Christian Science Monitor

On gun violence, blaming mental illness may only deepen stigma

Only 3 percent to 5 percent of violent acts can be attributed to a person living with a severe mental illness, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, while people linked to those illnesses are actually 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population. Of 88 mass […]

Are video games bad for your kids? Not so much, experts now believe

Magy Seif El-Nasr, director of the Game Design Program at Northeastern University, said parents should make an effort to learn about the games their kids are playing and to join them for a match or two.
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Trump’s CNN attacks may hobble legal case to block AT&T-Time Warner deal

“His comments have soiled the process,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University. “If I were AT&T’s lawyers I would certainly introduce them into the evidentiary record as meddling with what is really a law enforcement process.”
Vox

“Climate change” and “global warming” are disappearing from government websites

Jennifer Bowen, an associate professor at Northeastern University, reported in August that she was asked to remove the words “global warming” and “climate change” from a research grant application she submitted to the Energy Department. Officials have denied that there is any policy banning the use of these phrases.
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The forgotten women scientists who fled the Holocaust for the United States

A new project from Northeastern University traces the journeys of 80 women who attempted to escape Europe and find new lives in America during World War II  
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Bob Schieffer: Old journalism, new media, and #fakenews

“We are not the opposition party. We are reporters,” Schieffer writes. “Our role is simply to ask questions and to keep asking until we get an answer.” It’s no longer that simple, of course, and Schieffer knows it. But we would all be better off if we could return to a time when the president […]
Slate

Why conservatives are more susceptible to believing in lies

If “truth” is judged on the basis of Enlightenment ideas of reason and more or less objective “evidence,” many of the substantive positions common on the right seem to border on delusional. The left is certainly not immune to credulity (most commonly about the safety of vaccines, GMO foods, and fracking), but the right seems […]