Last week, more than 100 Massachusetts government employees — mostly anonymous bureaucrats — learned their names had appeared in an unexpected place: on an Islamic State “hit list.” ISIS cyber-affiliates have released a number of similar lists in other states over the last few months — naming police officers, county board members, even ordinary citizens […]

The first came in the same 60 Minutes interview, when Hillary said she was not “standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette.” It was a relatively innocuous pop culture reference, but when she later told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas,” it started to sound […]

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been a lightning rod for criticism from various healthcare stakeholders, including physicians, since the law’s passage six years ago. With the upcoming presidential election likely to alter the landscape of “Obamacare”—from simple tweaks by Democrats to outright attempted repeal by Republicans—Medical Economics asked healthcare policy experts and our readers […]

“Whenever there is a mass casualty or terrorist attack around the world these days, the Islamic State is almost always the leading suspect,” said Max Abrahms, a Northeastern University professor and terror expert. “It was perceived from the start. It was believed to be multiple attackers spread throughout the city of Munich taking aim at […]

But beyond being a business owner, Seletsky gave back to the community and sat on the board of the Union Park Neighborhood Association. On Sunday, the group paid tribute with a concert in the parkand a proposal to install two wooden benches in his memory in front of the store. For James Alan Fox, the […]

The new technology represents an exciting development, said Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist who studies emotion at Northeastern University but wasn’t involved with the new study. “Right now, we apply sensors to people’s skin with gel, and it’s messy,” Barrett told Live Science. Even though she anticipates using this sort of technology in her own […]

In terms of how investors approach portfolios, forms that analyze behavioral biases can help people make smart decisions before they trip themselves up, says Paul Bolster, a finance professor at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. “Simple asset allocation models take the form of a questionnaire,” Bolster says. “Responses are weighted and aggregated into a […]

But there are limits to what a president can do to reduce crime. Unlike in some countries, most policing in the United States is done by agencies controlled by local governments, not the federal government. “Federal law enforcement handles less than 10 percent of crime,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Northeastern University Institute on […]

“It seems to me a mistake to limit yourself to only those who can afford to live here or chose to live here,” Northeastern University economist Barry Bluestone told The Boston Globe. “It’s a little parochial to think we have to maintain our own population here and if you are not a Bostonian, you can’t […]

“Reasonable consumers would not equate a tie with a win,” said Mark Gottlieb, the executive director of Northeastern University School of Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, which opposes lotteries as a regressive tax. “In most games and sports there are three categories for play outcomes: wins, losses, or ties. When the payout is equal to […]

Thanks Bernie! Hillary Clinton’s tilt at the US presidency is poised to turn a deeper shade of green after pressure from her former rival. Democrats gathering at their national convention in Philadelphia on Monday are set to approve a platform that calls climate change “the defining challenge of our time”. A non-binding road map for […]

There is no one in politics better at playing a bad hand than Ted Cruz. Even before we learned that Donald Trump had given a deeply disturbing interview to the New York Times in which he walked away from our NATO commitments, I thought getting booed off the stage was likely to prove a good […]