VIDEO: Professor Michael Dukakis discusses Mitt Romney’s record as governor on the Rachel Maddow Show

While many high school graduates spend their summers relaxing and unwinding before they depart for college, former Pembroke High cross-country standout Wesley Gallagher runs a demanding 70 to 75 miles per week. For the state’s Gatorade Cross-Country Runner of the Year last fall, it’s all in preparation for his freshman year at Northeastern University, where […]

For all of us who live in or close to a big city, here’s a provocative idea: Mayors may be in the best position to offer big solutions, innovation and new ways to deliver services. Mayors have more ways to encourage change than community organizations, than governors or even presidents. Whether you agree with that […]

In a decision announced Wednesday, Australia’s high court upheld the plain packaging act, which says that tobacco products must be in plain packaging without logos and bear graphic health warnings as of December 1. Richard Daynard, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston and president of the school’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, […]

Northeastern University on Tuesday announced that its Seattle branch campus will be on the ground floor of the Institute of Systems Biology headquarters building at 401 Terry Avenue N., in the city’s South Lake Union neighborhood.

Rents for apartments in Boston­ are soaring, and a dearth of construction of less expensive apartments is making it increasingly difficult for tenants to find affordable places to live. “If I have to spend 40 or even 50 percent of my household income on rent, that means I’m going to spend less on restaurants, less […]

Northeastern University-Seattle will offer graduate programs in 15 areas and will share a space in South Lake Union with the Institute for Systems Biology.

Reports of widespread racial profiling at Logan International Airport — and news of a federal investigation into the practice — have provoked concern and calls for change, but little surprise. “I’m a little depressed,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University, which documented widespread racial inequities in a […]

Five years after Congress set a deadline for requiring all U.S.-bound shipping containers to be X-rayed overseas for nuclear weapons, customs officials have all but given up on the goal. Customs and Border Protection officials scanned with X-ray or gamma-ray machines 473,380, or 4.1 percent, of the 11.5 million containers shipped in the fiscal year […]

Schedules and venues have been set, formats have been selected, and competitors have begun strategizing for victory in America’s upcoming political Olympics: the 2012 presidential and vice presidential debates, now only two months away. Let us scrutinize the recent announcement of formats by the Commission on Presidential Debates for early indications about this year’s round […]

Much as Zipcar changed personal car transportation using Internet software, Boston-based MyBike thinks it can leverage the web to offer a game-changing service for bicycle owners around the U.S. LeRoy Watkins, a Northeastern University finance graduate in 2004, launched MyBike in 2005 to serve as a bike rental service (with the twist that the company […]

Reports of widespread racial profiling at Logan International Airport — and news of a federal investigation into the practice — have provoked concern and calls for change, but little surprise. “I’m a little depressed,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University, which documented widespread racial inequities in a […]