A year ago this month, authorities say, Dylann Roof walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot nine people to death during a prayer service. It was soon discovered that Roof—who faces the death penalty if he’s convicted—had espoused hateful views of African-Americans and had posed with the Confederate flag […]

After we’ve switched our Facebook profile pics to rainbow filter, belabored about how to condense our sorrow into 140 characters, posted solidarity pictures on Insta, and ingested the same sound bytes until they’re forever-and-a-day seared into our brains, we start to come to. The difficult process of grieving and sense making begins.

More than 100 casualties, including at least 50 dead, at an Orlando nightclub that catered to the LGBT community. Yet another challenge for police investigators at the crime scene and security experts on the tube is to try to make sense of what seems, at least at this early stage, so hideously senseless.

Since the end of the recession, economic growth has been lackluster despite the Federal Reserve putting the pedal to the metal by pursuing zero interest rates and engaging in bond purchases known as quantitative easing. The rationale for this policy is that artificially suppressed interest rates and easy money are required for the Fed to […]

Researchers at Northeastern University tracked pricing of 1,640 of the best-selling products on Amazon’s site over four months. In particular, they were examining what prices were featured in what’s known as the “buy box,” the area on the right side of an Amazon product page that invites you to add an item to your cart. It is coveted real estate for the […]

But the passage of the new measures likely heralds a more permanent shift – one that is moving away from cigarette smoking as a social norm, says Richard Daynard, president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Boston’s Northeastern University. “I don’t think the tobacco industry lobby is what it once was,” he says. “I […]

The idea that an expanding economy lifts everybody sounds intuitively correct, but sometimes economic effects are counterintuitive. So when it comes to Boston’s booming innovation economy, can we assume that a rising tide will lift all boats? According to Barry Bluestone, an economist at Northeastern University, the answer is no. “A rising tide may actually […]

Hillary Clinton had seemed like the inevitable Democratic nominee for so long—not just in the current campaign, but eight years ago as well—that she tends not to get the credit she’s due for what is by any measure a remarkable accomplishment. And it’s not just that she’s the first woman to become the presumptive nominee […]

A significant increase in Boston’s population over the next fifteen years will put an inexorable burden on Boston’s suffocated roadways and inadequate public transport systems, necessitating a new transportation plan founded on “credibility and trust,” Rick Dimino, chief executive of A Better City, told Boston Public Radio on Wednesday. Dimino and Barry Bluestone, co-author of […]

Alicia Modestino, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, explains it’s all about the gig economy now. “So, the gig economy, we can think of the Ubers or the Taskrabbits out there, where folks are using all these great new technologies and apps to connect to each other, to be […]

Alessandro Vespignani – a professor of physics, computer science and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston – is developing a model that predicts where the virus will spread based on travel patterns to and from places where the virus already is being transmitted. The model is based on the CDC’s list of more than […]

Alicia Modestino, associate professor at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, says, “If you’re a college educated millennial, you’re doing pretty well.” “You are probably experiencing a higher level of college debt than previous generations,” she told WBZ NewsRadio 1030. “But if we were to look at, say, the income of a […]