AUDIO: Has the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut sounded the alarm that as a country we need to think long and hard about our relationship with guns and our culture of violence? Our guest, Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin, says that as horrific as this recent mass shooting is, we also need to remember the […]

When senior Dan Wendt attended his first Northeastern Entrepreneurship Club meeting in 2009 as a freshman, fifteen people showed up. A few years later though, the Entrepreneurship Club, which was founded in 2006, has grown into one of the largest and most active student business clubs in the country. Its board of directors is now […]

For whom are we reinventing college? The punditry around reinvention (including some in these pages) has trumpeted the arrival of MOOC’s, badges, “UnCollege,” and so on as the beginning of a historic transformation. “College Is Dead. Long Live College!,” declared a headline in Time’s “Reinventing College” issue, in October, which pondered whether massive open online […]

Cybersecurity breaches continue to plague the information technology community in and outside Connecticut. Last year, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team received more than 100,000 incident reports and released more than 5,000 actionable cyber security alerts and publications. Anti-virus software maker Symantec 2011 State of the Enterprise report identified cyber-risk as […]

Professor Lisa Gitelman is writing a book about documentation, including Post-it notes and copying, and how it has affected history.

A gold plaque hangs next to a bullet hole in the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., where a lone gunman killed six worshippers and injured three others last August. It is engraved with the words, “We Are One.” “It frames the wound,” says Pardeep Kaleka, son of former temple president Satwant Singh Kaleka, who […]

The tantalizing aromas of earthy empanadas and tangy barbecue chicken mingling in the air lure a small crowd to the rumbling, bright red truck parked smack in the middle of Northeastern University’s Snell Library Quad. Outside the Hungry Hungry Husky food truck, students and professors jockey to scan the menu. Reaching up to a delivery […]

We could be looking at one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. The latest numbers are at least 27 people dead at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., including 20 children. Police say the body of the alleged shooter was found inside the elementary […]

THE GLOBE’S three-part series “Justice in the shadows” (Dec. 9-11) brought much-needed attention to the many serious problems plaguing our nation’s immigration detention system. The secrecy of this system, coupled with the lack of legal representation for detainees, has led to an almost complete lack of accountability. Detainees are routinely mistreated, denied basic medical care, […]

Audie Cornish talks about the psychological profile of people who commit mass shootings with Jack Levin. He is professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern and co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence at Northeastern.

Tobacco companies have introduced almost no new cigarettes or smokeless tobacco products in the U.S. in more than 18 months because the federal government has prevented them from doing so, an Associated Press review has found. It’s an unprecedented pause for an industry that historically has introduced dozens of new products annually, and reflects its […]

Troy Evans preaches at Edge Urban Fellowship in a rundown Grand Rapids, Mich., neighborhood known for prostitution. Inside what looks like an abandoned office building are walls covered by graffiti. There are tattooed people wearing baseball caps and jeans. Three 20-year-old men holding mics get ready to bust out some elaborate dance moves. It may […]