In the aftermath of the tragic massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.., President Obama has called for a national conversation regarding the prevention of future attacks on America’s children. Thus far, the possibility of eliminating semi-automatic weapons has taken center stage. Yet there are other possibilities — perhaps vastly more effective than any […]

If you’re wondering who else in the United States might fit a “profile” of becoming a mass killer, just look around: They are everywhere, and they’re most likely harmless. Frighteningly, we have little idea about what separates those who ponder committing slaughter from those who go through with it. Experts say that risk factors, such […]

There is lots of urban lore about coach passengers on airlines being magically upgraded to first-class seats, but less is said when it happens the other way around. But this does happen – a lot. While airlines do not typically charge more for passengers bumped up, those who paid extra for a special seat have […]

His hard-fought reelection campaign behind him, President Barack Obama is undoubtedly taking stock of the opportunities and challenges that await him in his second term. To help us understand those key issues, we turn to two people with broad experience in state and national politics, and the challenges of being an elected chief executive. One […]

The White House threw its support behind several gun-control measures Tuesday, including requiring background checks at gun shows and for other private sales—ideas likely to face stiff opposition from most congressional Republicans and the powerful gun lobby. President Barack Obama also wants to renew the expired ban on assault weapons and consider limits on high-capacity […]

Even before the death toll in last Friday’s school massacre in Newtown, Conn., was determined, politicians, pundits, and professors of varied disciplines were all over the news, pushing their proposals for change. Some talked about the role of guns, others about mental-health services, and still more about the need for better security in schools and […]

Investigators have been slowly releasing information about the Newtown, Conn. shooting that claimed the lives of 20 children, six adults and the gunman. As the investigation unfolds, a number of questions are being raised about how law enforcement decides what information should be made public.

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.