A majority of economists in a separate Reuters poll last week said NAFTA will probably be renegotiated successfully with no significant changes, despite the Trump administration’s saber-rattling. “I still suspect that adults will prevail and NAFTA will not be allowed to collapse,” said William Dickens, head of the economics department at Northeastern University in Boston.

“ArtoftheMarch.Boston” is an interactive, digital trove — and a large one at that — of the many slogans, sayings, and witty and creative phrases that were scribbled or delicately drawn onto the placards people brought to the demonstration in January of last year, one day after President Trump’s inauguration. A throng of marchers attended the […]

Dov Waxman, co-director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University, discusses Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Israel on “Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power.”

Ever wonder what happened to the signs from the Women’s March in Boston last year? With the help of Northeastern University, a team of scholars, students and volunteers created an online archive of more than 6,000 posters and pieces of artwork from the Jan. 21, 2017 protest.

A singular focus on developing housing, however, may not be the way to establishing broader economic development and jobs for the city, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, a policy and economics professor at Northeastern University whose work focuses on labor market dynamics. But she said such a focus may attract people who have been priced out […]

Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has written several books about serial killings, said such crimes are often motivated by the killer’s need to avenge a catastrophic loss in their lives such as losing a job, falling deeply into debt or breaking up with a romantic partner.