The summer of 2014, thousands of employees walked off the job and rallied outside of the Market Basket headquarters in Tewksbury. They were not protesting poor work conditions or asking for higher wages. Instead, workers went on strike in support of an executive: they wanted ousted CEO Arthur T. Demoulas back in charge. The company […]

Over the past few weeks, the political press has settled into a pattern I was hoping we could avoid in 2016: the normalization of the presidential campaign. With increasing frequency, the media are ignoring or playing down negative news about Donald Trump while throwing a collective fit over Hillary Clinton’s appearances of possibilities of rumors […]

Such long-term changes are in train everywhere, and the unusual profile of Mr. Trump adds new wrinkles to the map. He could lose the GOP redoubts of Utah and Idaho (both Republican in every election since 1952 with the exception of the 1964 Barry Goldwater debacle) because of his attacks against Mr. Romney, which did […]

And despite a police-commissioned report by Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice in 2005 outlining the type of police oversight board Boston should have, Mayor Thomas M. Menino settled for a civilian board that is powerless and far too dependent on the Police Department. Menino pointed to union opposition and concerns about excessive oversight […]

In 2014, Northeastern University Law School’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which seeks to uncover details of racially motivated murders during the Jim Crow era, began digging up documents on Hall’s case. Those documents were turned over to Northeastern’s School of Journalism, prompting a year-long investigation into the lynching and the government’s failure to […]

The National Science Foundation is spending roughly half a million dollars to combat “online trolling.” A joint project by Northwestern and Northeastern universities is examining how to create “trolling-free environments” on the Internet. The researchers define online trolls as those who try to influence public opinion by boosting “misleading” and “inauthentic comments.”

San Francisco 49ers NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick didn’t stand for the national anthem at the 49ers, Green Bay Packers game last Friday night. The fire is still burning over that. Kaepernick says it’s a matter of principle. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses […]

Carey M. Rappaport, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, said the depth of many tunnels also posed a technological challenge. Some can be as deep as 90 feet, beyond the reach of most ground-radar devices and sensors. “Soil is very good at keeping secrets,” said Mr. Rappaport, who has […]

“When the leaders of terrorist groups are killed, the group tends to become more radical. A group in the immediate aftermath of leadership loss is more likely to direct its violence against civilian targets,” says Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. “When you remove […]

The cost of Epi Pens takes a big jump and has people wondering why drug prices seem to be out of control. President and CEO of Drew Quality Group, Deborah Drew, Associate Health Economics Professor at Northeastern, Steve Pizer, and Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Pharmaceuticals and Health Science, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, joined Adam to discuss.

Zika was first discovered in Uganda in 1947. It caused clusters of human infections from the 1960s to 1980s across Africa and Asia, according to the World Health Organization. The outbreak in the Americas was caused by a Zika strain from Asia, possibly carried to Brazil through travel to a sporting event. Many experts believe […]

“More attention than ever is focused on the moderators — unfairly, in many cases — and there is a lot more ‘working the refs’ in advance of the debates than there used to be in the past,” said Alan Schroeder, professor at Northeastern University and author of “Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail.” […]