Is the humidity in the hall just right? Are there enough hotel rooms nearby to hold the hordes of campaign staffers and journalists? Will the candidates’ dressing rooms be big enough? Landing a presidential debate requires painstaking adherence to a lengthy checklist, not to mention millions of dollars. Colleges and universities big and small have […]

In one of his most celebrated dissents, Justice Louis D. Brandeis addressed an issue not likely to come before the U.S. Supreme Court again: whether the state of Oklahoma could regulate distributors of ice as a public utility.

Cyberspace is the battlefield of the future, with attackers already going after banks and other financial institutions and developing the ability to strike U.S. power grids and government systems, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday. William Robertson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston who testified on cyber security legislation in Congress earlier […]

In the latest example of how print media has had to adapt to changing reading habits, Newsweek, the venerable US weekly current affairs magazine, will publish its final print edition on December 31 and move to an all-digital format early next year, ending an 80-year run as a print magazine and taking the esteemed publication […]

The Massachusetts jobless rate rose for the third straight month in September to 6.5 percent — up from 6.3 percent in August — even as a separate survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated the Bay State added 5,100 jobs.

Alaa Alhomaizi, a senior at Northeastern University, has traveled around her home country with her twin sister, Dalal, to raise awareness and promote treatment.

Within the last year alone, Northeastern’s student-run venture accelerator IDEA has grown from 56 to 107 companies. Last night, 40 of those companies tabled at Northeastern’s Entrepreneurship Expo (NEXPO), reflecting what faculty advisor Dan Gregory describes as “the most advanced and energetic of our ventures.”

Violent crimes unexpectedly jumped 18 percent last year, the first rise in nearly 20 years, and property crimes rose for first time in a decade. But academic experts said the new government data fall short of signaling a reversal of the long decline in crime. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Wednesday that the […]

This is presidential? They bicker, interrupt, talk over the moderator. To some, the Obama-Romney rematch was squirm-inducing. But shedding some dignity probably won’t cost the candidates much. Since both President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney came out swinging, neither was likely to claim a decisive advantage among viewers who thought the debate smacked of […]

What are the major national security threats facing the United States? When, where and how should the U.S. use military force? How are national security and homeland security connected? What can the U.S. president do to prepare for a potential disaster?

So it looks like President Obama got the message. In his second debate with Mitt Romney, the president delivered a comeback performance that will stand as a model for future debaters of how to right a listing ship. Obama was as good in Hempstead as he was bad in Denver. In fact, this may have […]

Up to half of new graduates, by some estimates, are finding themselves jobless or underemployed. Why? As Andrew Sum, the director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University said, “Simply put, we’re failing kids coming out of college.” Recent pieces in The Atlantic and The Weekly Standard (claiming that the proponents of […]