The debt itself isn’t necessarily the dominant issue. It’s the debt combined with a failed economy, which then leads to high rates of poverty and unemployment along with very small tax base to keep the island afloat. “First and foremost, it was decades of Puerto Rican politicians abusing Puerto Rico’s credit card,” Amílcar Antonio Barreto, […]

“In the case of Puigdemont, people who believe in independence truly believe in independence — you don’t play around and back off at the last minute,” José F. Buscaglia, director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures at Northeastern University, told me. That meant, said Buscaglia, it would have been “political suicide” for […]

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has a long and illustrious history of issuing progressive legal decisions. But Governor Charlie Baker has reshaped the composition of the SJC during his first term by replacing five of the seven justices due to mandatory retirements. WGBH Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed discusses the implications […]

One of the Supreme Court cases that Northeastern professor Daniel Medwed is paying attention to is Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago.

The average Greater Boston resident spends 31 minutes commuting to work, one of the longer trips in the country. Jammed highways and surface roads have become the daily norm for many. There’s also the overcrowded, delay-plagued MBTA. “Unless everybody’s going to live on top of the Amazon building, we’re going to have a serious transportation […]

“They are two elements of America that have been romanticized and ingrained in our cultures over the years,” said William Fowler, a longtime professor of American history at Northeastern University in Boston. “Over time, the facts may not change but the way we interpret them certainly has.”

“It’s right out of Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince,’ ” said Ted Clark, who heads the Center for Family Business at Northeastern University in Boston. ‘‘One of the princes was getting out of control and he had to be dealt with.”

Amy Morin knows a lot about resiliency. A licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist and foster parent, she has devoted her life to helping others resolve problems and conflicts. We spoke with Morin, who is also a lecturer at Northeastern University, to learn how we can ditch bad parenting habits and replace them with beneficial ones […]

Former President Bill Clinton is visiting Northeastern University for a student conference that’s meant to inspire future leaders.

“A good surgical sealant needs to have a combination of characteristics: it needs to be elastic, adhesive, non-toxic and biocompatible,” said lead author Nasim Annabi, PhD, of Northeastern University, and lecturer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Wyss Institute. “Most sealants on the market possess one or two of these characteristics, but not all […]

And according to a 2016 database of mass shootings involving four or more victims, just 15% of mass shooting suspects had a psychotic disorder while 11% had paranoid schizophrenia, Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox found.

Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, said the high-contrast performances by Trump and Pence reflect “how differently they perceive the political world: Pence is coming at this from someone who’s been in public life for a very long time and has had to hone and refine the optics of his […]