About one in five gun owners in the U.S. said they purchased a firearm in the previous two years without undergoing a background check, according to a new study. The result, from a 2015 survey, is an improvement, according to lead author Dr. Matthew Miller, of Northeastern University in Boston. A similar study conducted in […]

And now it’s Ford keeping jobs in the USA. After public pressure from President-elect Donald Trump, this week Ford said it would scrap plans for a new $1.6 billion plant in Mexico and instead put 700 new manufacturing jobs in Michigan. Carrier already folded job move plans from Indiana. Now Trump is threatening GM with […]

As framed by Breitbart, the Post-Gazette’s report is a comforting revelation for white readers who feel attacked by those dreaded social justice warriors. But here is a reality check, courtesy of Margaret A. Burnham, founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University: “It is far more common to uncover lynchings that […]

The unemployment rate in November in Massachusetts dropped to 2.9 percent, the lowest since January 2001. The state’s economy likely grew at a rate of 2 percent in 2016, according to Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor and a senior contributing editor of MassBenchmarks.

If the police do find the source of the notes, the case will not be clear-cut. The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech – even hate speech. Conviction for a hate crime requires direct action or targeting. “There are some who might see it as a hate crime,” said Jack Levin, co-director of the […]

So it’s unclear what, if any bounce NBC and its local affiliates will get from Kelly’s arrival because no one yet knows when she’ll finally be on the air. “I would think that if they put some billboards up around Boston that said ‘Coming Soon,’ if they put some promotional heft behind this now, that […]

Nonverbal cues often occur in what is called a “gesture cluster” – a group of movements, postures and actions that reinforce a common point. Clusters play a key role in your growing ability to spot lies. A single nonverbal cue can have several meanings or mean nothing at all, but when it is reinforced by […]

In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, a large number of so-called mainstream media organizations have declared war on “fake news” — by which they mean, of course, not their own errors and inaccuracies, but those committed by alternative media sources, particularly those with a conservative bent. But if the mainstream media are really serious […]

“Teachers don’t get a lot of education around social emotional development,” said Dr. William Sharp, a psychoanalyst and professor at Northeastern University who worked in BPS. “Districts push learning of reading, writing and math so much, there is no room for social and emotional learning.” Boston school leaders, however, defended their behavioral health work, arguing […]

The share of Americans who obtained a gun without first undergoing a background check is dramatically lower than previous estimates, researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities have determined. The finding re-shapes one of the most prominent assumptions of the US gun control debate. Just 22% of current gun owners who acquired a firearm within the […]

Across the country, there is a strong movement to limit the use of segregation in prisons, especially for juveniles and people with mental illness, said Natasha A. Frost, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University who coauthored a recent paper on segregation for the National Institute of Justice. Change is driven […]

But when I spoke with Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, she thought that my job seemed easy—maybe too easy. “People have always created personalities for objects,” she said. “People have always talked to their cars; they’ve talked to their plants; they’ve talked to their blankets; they’ve talked to their stuffed […]