Terrorism expert Max Abrahms of Northeastern University disagrees, saying the “original sin” on Iraq was former President George W. Bush’s decision to depose former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He also faults Obama for “regime change” in Libya. But Abrahms said Obama’s overall record in the fight against terror is “respectable.” “I think Obama, to his […]

This Q&A features highlights from a conversation with Gene Cooperman, a professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University in Boston. He is one of the main members of a team working to run what is known as transparent checkpointing on one of the world’s largest supercomputers, called Stampede. In the […]

“Humans are perpetually failing to grasp the significance of their own creations,” write Joi Ito and Jeff Howe in Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future. In the new title, released today, Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, and Howe, a journalism professor at Northeastern University andWired contributor, make the case that technology moves […]

With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), we are living in an increasingly networked and automated world, said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. “It is important to get students interested and excited about computer science because this is a field that will most certainly directly impact their lives in […]

President Bush also allowed other areas of scientific discovery to languish, cutting America’s leadership on a global scale. Pran Nath, a particle physicist at Northeastern University, told LiveScience that America lost its leadership in particle physics under President Bush, “leaving Europe and Japan to assume leadership role in this area.”

To his admirers, like Reagan and the business site CheckWriters, this shows that Coolidge “was no micromanager,” and his famous habit of “empowering his Cabinet officials” meant his “Roaring ’20s White House was never bogged down by process” and therefore “functioned like a well-oiled Model T Ford.” And that was probably true in his first […]

Labor pains and lessons from the north. As Connecticut comes to terms with recent job loss, Massachusetts emerges as a regional leader in statewide job recovery. This hour, we explore the latest job market trends and find out what Connecticut stands to learn from the Bay State. Are you a Connecticut or Massachusetts resident? What […]

“We’ll see more and more institutions gravitating toward this type of opportunity,” says Charles Kilfoye, who runs Northeastern University’s Experiential Network, a program that matches graduate and professional studies students with six-week projects at sponsor companies. “It really just mirrors the gig economy that’s happening out there.” Will part-time piecework replace traditional internships? Workers are […]

Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University in Boston, says these surges in hate reflect a pattern. The pattern reared its ugly head, he says, in 2001, against those perceived as Muslim or Middle Eastern following the 9/11 terrorist attacks; in 2004, against gays and lesbians with the passage […]

Donald Trump’s recent comments in an interview that he would not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton’s email practices, even though he had promised otherwise in the second debate, predictably sent off howls of protest from many of his supporters. But Trump’s apparent decision — assuming he and his appointees stick to it […]