“Gun control laws are only as good as the weakest link in the national chain,” says James Alan Fox, Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University, in a telephone interview with the Monitor. “Massachusetts has strong ones, for example, New Hampshire weaker ones, so there’s nothing to stop guns crossing the border. […]

Whatever its other disappointments, the 2016 Republican nominating contest has at least done one thing that ought to bring a smile to supporters of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio alike: It brought an end to the Bush dynasty in national politics. And the Republican Party will be better for that. The Bush dynasty […]

“I think public opinion about smoking has really changed dramatically,” says Richard Daynard, a law professor and president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute, also at the Northeastern University School of Law. “My students, their general attitude at this point is, ‘Why would somebody want to do that?’ Certainly that wasn’t the attitude when I […]

Each autumn night below the surface of the Gulf of Maine, a feeding frenzy takes place. It’s occurred for eons, but until just recently, human observers had little idea what really took went on down in the cold, dark Atlantic waters. Now new research out of Northeastern University brings the scene into focus. In a […]

Northeastern University’s sailing team took to the Charles River Wednesday to practice as temperatures crept into the seventies on a spring-like day toward the end of a mild winter. The students, who decided to stay in the city for spring break, whipped and twirled their sailboats, emblazoned with the red and black Northeastern logo, around […]

The idea is not without skeptics. James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University professor who studies mass shootings, said: “Some bunching just happens. Yes, there is some mimicking going on, but the vast majority of mass killers don’t need someone else to give them the idea.”

On February 3, 2016 the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit agreed to rehear the appeal inWollschlaeger v. Florida, commonly known as the case of the “docs versus the glocks.” Wollschlaegerconcerns a Florida law that bars physicians from routinely asking their patients whether they have guns or store them safely. In agreeing […]

Now, a new study by a team of researchers from Harvard and Northeastern debunks that notion, putting the spotlight squarely on firearms, which are by far the most likely risk factor responsible for increased rates of suicide in gun-owning households. Their paper, published this month in Epidemiologic Reviews, a leading public health journal, is a systematic […]

Most of what Donald Trump has to say is either ignorant, offensive or both. That’s especially true when it comes to foreign policy. Yet when he’s pushed to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — among the more politically charged issues in this election cycle — Trump actually makes some sense. During an MSNBC town hall meeting […]

“Certain candidates who looked good on paper — Scott Walker, for instance — could not translate that appeal through the lens of a camera,” Northeastern University professor Alan Schroeder, the author of a book on presidential debates, wrote in an email, citing the Wisconsin governor who dropped out. “In the case of Donald Trump, we […]

Brendan Duke, associate director of economic policy at the Center for American Progress. Author of the new report, “When I Was Your Age: Millennials and the Generational Wage Gap.” (@brendan_duke) Alicia Sasser Modestino, professor of economics and public policy at Northeastern University. (@SasserModestino) Center for American Progress: When I Was Your Age — “By all […]