It is instead the working conditions of trafficking victims, often invisible to the public and law enforcement, which qualifies their situation as trafficking. Many victims enter the U.S. legally on an H-2 visa, which enables employers to bring immigrants into the country on a temporary basis to fill jobs. As Amy Farrell, a professor of […]

Donald Trump’s celebrity — and intrigue as to how the other Republican candidates will deal with his presence — could deliver a ratings boost for the first GOP debate, set for Fox News on Aug. 6. The audience will not be as big as the first season finale of Trump’s NBC series “The Apprentice,” when […]

In 1962 Fannie Lou Hamer and a group of Ruleville, Mississippi residents she had taken to register to vote were returning home when they were stopped because their bus was yellow, and state laws prohibited non-school buses from using that shade. The driver was taken to jail and the would-be voters left in the sweltering […]

At Boston’s Northeastern University, officials wonder why there are warnings for countries such as Colombia but not Tunisia, where 38 were killed in a June attack at a beach resort. “To a casual observer, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense,” said Brian Gibson, director of the Global Experience Office at Northeastern, which hires […]

Moviegoers didn’t suffer when Disney bought Pixar. Google’s acquisition of YouTube, and Facebook’s purchase of Instagram, didn’t appear to weaken those free online services. But these are examples of deals that weren’t intended to squeeze more revenue from customers through greater market power. Rather, they involved creation of new opportunities for growth. John Kwoka, an […]

Analysts and historians of terrorism are divided on the effectiveness of “leadership decapitation” — an approach that has been at the heart of the Obama Administration’s policy through the widespread use of armed drones. Max Abrahms, who studies terrorism at Northeastern University, says the aversion to putting boots on the ground and the growing technological […]