College graduates struggling to repay their student loans should have an easier time getting their debt eliminated if they go into bankruptcy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Saturday. Warren laid out several reforms to address the rising costs of higher education in a speech at the Education Writers Association’s Conference on Higher Education, held at […]

– Twitter data may be able to predict representative state polls of support for presidential candidates for states, days, or smaller regions and time periods when polling is unavailable. (watch out Nate Silver!) [from research by Northeastern University political scientist Nicholas Beauchamp; the paper is here.]  

Over the past 30 years, the United States has steadily averaged about 20 mass killings each year, according to James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University criminology professor who studies such events.  

In a purely self-serving item, I was honored to read Arika Okrent’s writeup of one of my research projects for one of my favorite blogs,Mental Floss. In true internet style, it’s a top ten list: “Top 10 Viral Hits of the Pre-Civil War Years.” For as long as there have been means to distribute information widely, […]

You would not think that a constitutional law argument before the justices of the Supreme Court the stuff of engaging nights in the theatre. Stories of lawyers presenting their legal positions and members of the Court challenging and clarifying what they hear may be the high light of a bar association dinner but plainly for […]

Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University with expertise in criminology, has studied the link between animal cruelty and other crimes and anti-social behaviors with colleague Arnold Arlucke. In a previous study Mr. Levin conducted with Mr. Arlucke, the two found that animal abusers are five times more likely than a […]

November 8, 1988 – Loses the election to Bush by roughly seven million votes, earning 111 electoral votes in the Electoral College to Bush’s 426. 1991-present – Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University in Boston and visiting professor at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. 2000 – Publishes “How to Get Into Politics and Why: A Reader,” […]

At Northeastern University, the second-oldest co-op school, students graduate with up to 18 months of internship experience. It joins roughly 100 other U.S colleges offering some structure of co-op. The model has been around for over 100 years and while not all institutions offer the initiative, students can and should consider adopting co-op into their […]

If there was one major takeaway from Wednesday’s Washington Technology Industry Association TechNW conference at Northeastern University in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, it was that the Pacific Northwest is a hub of innovation for cloud and big data companies large and small.  

Davis’ strength lay in community policing and prevention in crime hot spots, said Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin. “The new commissioner has to do the same thing.” Former Boston cop Tom Nolan said he expects “movement” behind internal minority contenders: “If you want to change the promotions system, that’s a pretty tall order. You’re going […]

A new Gallup poll taken after last week’s tragedy at the Washington Navy Yard reveals that Americans fault the mental health system for mass shootings, even more than inadequate gun laws. Apparently, according to Joe Public, guns don’t kill, psychotic people do. The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre echoed these sentiments on Sunday: “If we leave these homicidal maniacs on the street […]

It’s pretty quiet at 7 a.m. as Dan Clarke steers a white painted school bus through the back roads of Jamaica Plain. Emptied of the seats that once transported children, the bus has been retrofitted with a row of baskets mounted on one side and a long shelf on the other. It is now Fresh […]