Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will be on the field for the season opener next week after all. A federal judge on Thursday vacated Brady’s four-game suspension stemming from his alleged use of deflated footballs during last year’s playoffs. Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, […]

Throughout Michael’s nearly three decades in elected office, he was the star of the couple. He served a record three terms as governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts; his one run for the presidency still haunts the Democratic Party as a winnable failure. But now, nearly 25 years after he finished his third term as […]

To the Editor: Steven J. Harper unfairly assesses the number of American law students based on employment statistics rather than on the more salient fact that so many Americans cannot afford legal services. No one would say we had an oversupply of medical students if millions of Americans resorted to self-medication and treatment because they […]

“There’s no reliable way we can identify th ose few who will pick up a gun and start shooting people from the vast number who might seem odd or unusual or even scary,” said James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University criminologist who has studied and written about mass killings. “You can’t predict it. Did they […]

Boston — IS psychology in the midst of a research crisis? An initiative called the Reproducibility Project at the University of Virginia recently reran 100 psychology experiments and found that over 60 percent of them failed to replicate — that is, their findings did not hold up the second time around. The results, published last […]

To the older consumers, it’s more obvious a product is being advertised when brands post content on social media. But teens do not see it this way, said Northeastern University communications professor Brooke Foucault Welles, who researches high schoolers’ social media habits. Gen Z sees the content as experiences they want to remake. “They really […]

Yet that does not mean that government policy is unimportant. Daniel Aldrich, a political scientist, showed that in a series of Asian disasters, villages with stronger and more participatory local government rebuilt faster and better. Building infrastructure for tighter and more successful communities is the business of government, and it can be pursued through policies […]