The Washington Examiner Super Tuesday: Three takeaways from marquee primary night that opened the 2024 show Cracks in Biden’s or Trump’s support “portend obstacles for either or both,” according to Northeastern University political science chairman and professor Costas Panagopoulos, based in Massachusetts, another Super Tuesday state. “Sizable numbers of ‘no preference’ protest votes in states that allow them could signal fissures in the Biden coalition,” Panagopoulos said.
U.N. Court Says Israel Must Prevent Genocidal Acts in Gaza, But Doesn’t Order a Ceasefire Nonetheless, it’s “a very significant finding from both a legal and political perspective,” Zinaida Miller, a Professor of Law at Northeastern University, tells TIME. She adds that it will most likely increase international pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to curb the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
CNBC News At least a dozen U.S. universities reinstate mask mandates as Covid cases rise “The national debate over mask mandates is certainly reflective of both pandemic fatigue and the deep political divides we have in terms of the public health policy related to Covid,” said Neil Maniar, director of Northeastern University’s Master of Public Health in Urban Health Program.
Scientific American Will Giving COVID Booster Shots Make It Harder to Vaccinate the Rest of the World? But one billion doses would be nowhere near enough to achieve the WHO’s goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the world by June 2022—and this is where widespread booster campaigns could become a problem. “I understand why a politician would like to say, ‘I want to do both’” booster campaigns and donations, says health law expert […]
‘I did what I came to do’: Biden, Putin leave summit with agreements, but clear tensions remain Max Abrahms, a professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University, said Putin’s remarks about both countries being “committed to discussions” about cybersecurity were a positive signal.
Preparing For A Triple Whammy: Hurricanes, Pandemic And A Loss Of Public Confidence While both President Trump and Vice President Pence said that the country is “ready,” Northeastern University Political Science Professor Daniel Aldrich warns that the problem with the White House hurricane plan is confidence in the messenger.
CBS Boston Keller @ Large: New York Times, Tucker Carlson Face Scrutiny For Recent Coverage Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University professor, media critic and author, discussed both high profile media events with WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller.
Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth David Lazer, a political and computer scientist at Northeastern University who wasn’t part of the study but wrote an accompanying report, praised the MIT research but said the scientists may have missed a lot of bots and cyborgs — sort of in-between humans. His ongoing, not-yet-published research has found that about 80 percent of false […]
The Christian Science Monitor As Hurricane Irma hits Florida, evacuees try to keep ahead of the storm “We have top-down institutions like FEMA and law enforcement, but then we have bottom-up phenomenon too, like the market and civic engagement, so people can flee feeling secure that they can find a hotel room, that there will be a church that can help, or friends will reach out, even if they’re dealing with survivor’s […]
Britons will shake themselves off and pick a prime minister this week With the country now coming to terms with terrorist attacks in both London and Manchester in the last few weeks, there is even greater uncertainty about how this could affect decisions made inside the ballot box on Thursday. “There’s no question the attack in London will affect the election,” said Max Abrahams, a political scientist […]
From swastikas to bomb threats, anti-Jewish incidents on record-setting track Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University, said the report documents what he, too, has been finding. “There has been a rebirth of anti-Semitism associated with electoral politics, both in Europe and in hate groups in the United States,” he said. McDevitt said traffickers in hate focus on any […]
Ars Technica Making a different case for guns as a public health issue Because both criminal violence and gun rights have become contentious political topics, research on the health and safety aspects of gun ownership in the US is barely funded. In fact, many have questioned whether it should be studied at all. But Northeastern University’s Matthew Miller used a talk at the meeting of the American Association […]