“His comments have soiled the process,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University. “If I were AT&T’s lawyers I would certainly introduce them into the evidentiary record as meddling with what is really a law enforcement process.”

Jennifer Bowen, an associate professor at Northeastern University, reported in August that she was asked to remove the words “global warming” and “climate change” from a research grant application she submitted to the Energy Department. Officials have denied that there is any policy banning the use of these phrases.

A new project from Northeastern University traces the journeys of 80 women who attempted to escape Europe and find new lives in America during World War II  

“We are not the opposition party. We are reporters,” Schieffer writes. “Our role is simply to ask questions and to keep asking until we get an answer.” It’s no longer that simple, of course, and Schieffer knows it. But we would all be better off if we could return to a time when the president […]

If “truth” is judged on the basis of Enlightenment ideas of reason and more or less objective “evidence,” many of the substantive positions common on the right seem to border on delusional. The left is certainly not immune to credulity (most commonly about the safety of vaccines, GMO foods, and fracking), but the right seems […]

Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, a frequent writer on mass murder and mass shootings, and fellow researcher Emma Fridel analyzed a Stanford Geospatial Center database compiling shooters who killed four or more people since 1966. Of the 88 shooters who met that criteria, only 14.8 percent had been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. And […]

Like many Americans, I opened my Monday morning paper to find front page coverage of yet another mass shooting. Alongside the headline about the 25 parishioners and one unborn child killed by an armed intruder wearing black body armor and a Grim Reaper mask during a church service in Sutherland Springs, Tex., was a graphic depicting a timeline of the […]

Northeastern professor William Mayer sees only one good alternative for the Republican Party: nominate someone else as their presidential candidate in 2020.

This three-year pilot program is privately funded. Researchers from MIT and Northeastern University will monitor the results to see if it is a success.

Since his retirement, Ireland has taken a position on the faculty of Northeastern University as a professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Northeastern professor Max Abrahms discusses the confusion around labeling violent tragedies as “terrorism.”

Northeastern University and IBM announced a partnership in early October to allow learners to use IBM-issued badge credentials towards three professional master’s degree programs, with plans to expand the arrangement to 51 additional graduate degrees and 17 certificate programs. “We must eliminate the gap between learning and work,” said Philomena Mantella, senior vice president and […]