Government

All these Brexit extensions ‘are getting to the point of ridiculousness’

With yet another extension on Brexit, it’s clear that there’s extreme internal turmoil within the United Kingdom’s government. But it’s only serving to make the…

by Molly Callahan April 11, 2019

‘The longer you’re planning to be here, the more you have a stake’

During a wide-ranging conversation at Northeastern’s Boston campus Wednesday, Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who is exploring a run for the presidency,…

by Molly Callahan April 3, 2019

‘A critical part of building our global university system’

On Saturday night in Shanghai, a giant Northeastern “N” glowed on the roof of the Fairmont Peace Hotel, a symbol accentuated by a…

by Greg St. Martin April 3, 2019

‘What worked in the West for much of the post-war period seems to be breaking down’

Raghuram Rajan, an economist at the University of Chicago and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, says that the technological revolution of the…

by Greg St. Martin April 1, 2019

Will an ISIS bride be allowed to return to the US?

In 2014, a woman fled the United States to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria. Now, widowed twice, she wants to return to the…

by Molly Callahan March 28, 2019

The Mueller report found no collusion between Trump and Russia. But the saga of the Russia investigation is not over.

Following the partial disclosure on Sunday of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report that cleared Trump of collusion, the House of Representatives is likely to demand…

by Khalida Sarwari March 24, 2019

Don't miss Nate Silver at Northeastern

Nate Silver, founder and editor in chief of the analytics news site FiveThirtyEight, will appear at Northeastern’s Boston campus on Wednesday to discuss the role…

by Khalida Sarwari March 22, 2019

Learn what it takes to cover the nation’s capital and the Trump White House.

Three leading White House correspondents will be at Northeastern to analyze and explain their roles in this new era of presidential coverage by tweet. Their…

by Ian Thomsen March 15, 2019

Monopolies are shrinking the competition in the American economy. He told Congress how to fix it.

John Kwoka understood what was wrong with the American economy, and he was prepared to offer solutions. But…

by Ian Thomsen March 11, 2019

Democrats who won 2018 midterms were more negative than Republicans on Twitter, research finds

“In the Twitter data, we found the exact opposite of the mantra that, ‘when they go low, we go high,’” says Aleszu Bajak, who manages…

by Molly Callahan March 5, 2019