Today, we are living through yet another revolution in the way that human beings work for their livelihoods—and once again, this revolution is leaving old certainties scrapped and smoldering on the ash heap of history. Once again, it is being powered by new technologies. But instead of the domesticated grain seed, the cotton gin, or […]

The great majority of mass murders, on the other hand, stem from people with a grudge. Or rather, not just a grudge, but people who see themselves as victims in life. After studying mass shooters for decades, Northeastern University criminologist, James Alan Fox, concluded that mass killers are often driven by a constellation of motivations, […]

Nestled in the depths of Hayden Hall on the expansive Northeastern University campus lies a small but innovative accelerator program. The program, IDEA, is leading the charge at Northeastern University’s Center of Entrepreneurship Education and is one of our 50 on Fire education category winners for 2017.

The Federal Communications Commission, the FCC, has voted to lift a more than 40-year-old ban on cross-ownership in media markets. It’s also loosened restrictions on owning multiple television stations in a single market. The FCC commissioners voted along party lines: three Republicans prevailing over two Democrats. In the studio to talk about all of this […]

But it’s not clear that simply adding education, particularly early in one’s life, will be enough to keep up in this new era. “If a job can be automated in the future, it will be,” Joseph E. Aoun, the president of Northeastern University in Boston, told me. “Very few are talking about the implications for […]

To conclude something is a hate crime, the offender’s intentions must be clear. That of course isn’t always the case. Perpetrators don’t always say racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted slurs before or after committing a crime. For instance, if a gay club is vandalized, it’s not always clear why. “The problem is not all hate-mongers are stupid,” Jack […]

Thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice, AT&T’s monopolistic dreams may not come true after all. According to media reports, the government may block AT&T’s proposed $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. Even if the deal is approved, AT&T may be required to sell off CNN, one of Time Warner’s crown jewels.

“Providing better care for people with addiction is commendable and I applaud the investment,” said Northeastern University law professor Leo Beletsky. But “that investment cuts at total cross purposes with simultaneous efforts to ramp up the criminal justice approaches.”

Northeastern professor James Alan Fox argues that well-meaning experts risk their credibility by asserting a link between domestic abuse and mass shootings. But the statistics simply don’t back it up.

In 2016 there were 6,100 reported instances of people targeted based on their race, religion, sexuality, disability or national origin, an increase of 300 over 2015, and like last year the overwhelming majority of those victims were targeted because of their race or religion. “I’m not surprised,” said Dr. Jeff McDevitt, an associate dean and […]

Col. McKeon has said it is department policy for troopers to only included relevant information and to extract any embarrassing details because arrest reports are considered public records. However, WGBH’s legal analyst Daniel Medwed says McKeon’s claim that he was following standard practice appears suspicious because of his connections to the Worcester County District Attorney’s […]

The robots are coming. They’re coming for my job, for your job, quite frankly for a whole lot of jobs in the very near future. Long story short: anything that can be automated probably will. So how do we really prepare young people for that future? Well, Joseph Aoun, president of Northeastern University, says it’s […]