Make no mistake: I have no desire to see Clinton in the White House for the next four years. But what worries me just as much is the possibility that Trump will get elected — and prove to be such a disaster in office that he tarnishes the Republican Party and conservatism in a way […]

Patrol officers in other major police departments, including New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, have worn name tags for decades. Massachusetts state troopers also wear name tags. “Most police departments require officers to wear a name tag, some with badge numbers,” said Peter K. Manning, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern […]

The first 30 minutes of the first presidential debate are the most important time slot in the general election, say historians and politics professionals. As Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University journalism professor and author of a book about past presidential debates, told me this week, the first half-hour “sets the dynamic of not just how […]

“This finding is not surprising,” said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. “The reason being that these are the organizations that typically have low budgets for deploying state-of-the-art security solutions.” K-12 schools and universities do tend to have smaller IT teams and budgets, the report stated. Combined with the high rate of […]

You may not know him by name, but you’ve probably seen his work in a number of department stores. Equal parts businessman and unabashed innovator, he has been defying convention for nearly 39 years by elevating the mannequin to high art. Now, the designs of Ralph Pucci, a Northeastern alum and internationally acclaimed mannequin creator, […]

Republican candidates with his brash remarks, similar behavior may not translate well to the general election stage, says Alan Schroeder, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston. “Certainly one of the objectives of any primary campaign is to separate yourself from the pack, because it always starts off with a large group,” Professor […]

The stereotypical face of gun ownership in the United States has long been a white man, one who holds conservative political views and resides in a rural area. But that may be changing, according to an upcoming survey by public health researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities.

“This guy is gold on TV. That was a huge factor in why they turned over their airwaves to him,” said Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has written a book on presidential debates. “He was getting on TV on his own terms. There were allowances made for him because […]

Election watchers may be glued to every new national poll regarding this year’s presidential election, but one researcher believes that analyzing Twitter may be a more accurate way to predict the results. Nick Beauchamp, an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, said in a paper published last week in the American Journal of […]

Wealth and income disparities has been a major theme of the presidential campaign, and it’s a growing issue here in Boston. This week, as part of a national conversation with NPR called “A Nation Engaged,” we explore the challenge of creating economic opportunity for more Americans.

Cars are a bad place to keep valuables—especially if those valuables are weapons. But every day, U.S. gun owners store their Glocks, their Smith & Wesson 9mm pistols, their .22 rifles, and plenty more firearms in their cars as they go to work or the grocery store. A jimmied door, a broken window, and someone […]

“Of all the presidential debates in the past, this one is the hardest to get a handle on in advance,” said Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University journalism professor and author of “Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail.” “Part of this is that Trump is so inconsistent and could say anything.” Sure, the debate […]