Northeastern professor Cammy Brothers discusses the Met’s new exhibition on Michelangelo, which shows how the master used drawing to experiment, refine and expand his work—both on and off the page.

Sometimes, business school applicants with a military background qualify for more than enough service-related scholarship money to attend graduate school for free. If you want reassurance that it is possible, consider the story of John Healy, a first-year MBA student at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business who received a full ride by capitalizing on service-related scholarship programs. Healy, a husband […]

The criminal justice reforms recently passed by the Massachusetts Senate and released by the House Committee on Ways and Means provide sensible reform to failed criminal justice approaches, including doing away with some mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug offenses. These reforms are both pragmatic and just. By shifting the focus away from laws and prosecutorial […]

Only 3 percent to 5 percent of violent acts can be attributed to a person living with a severe mental illness, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, while people linked to those illnesses are actually 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population. Of 88 mass […]

Magy Seif El-Nasr, director of the Game Design Program at Northeastern University, said parents should make an effort to learn about the games their kids are playing and to join them for a match or two.

“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 […]