The numbers are startling. But not necessarily telling, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist from Northeastern University in Boston, who suggested that Chicago is in some ways the victim of its own success in reducing violence from its high-water mark a couple of decades ago. “Maybe (Chicago) just started to hit a low point with […]

I’m shocked, shocked to learn that the “wife bonus” story has been called into question. Last month I shared with my ethics class an opinion piece that appeared in The New York Times claiming, among other things, that some rich women on Manhattan’s Upper East Side were paid “wife bonuses” by their husbands based on “how […]

Justine Siegel hopes to make that dream a reality — not just for DeVinney, but for future generations of girls. The national tournament, a six-day event held in Kissimmee, Florida, is the brainchild of Siegel and her nonprofit, Baseball For All, which is dedicated to increasing opportunities for girls in the game. The event drew […]

People living today find their lives bookended by two eras of weaponry: nuclear arms and the emerging threat of lethal autonomous weapons. On the one hand, nuclear Armageddon is still a real risk as states fail to live up to their legal obligations to disarm and dispose of their nuclear stockpiles. Lethal autonomous robotic weaponry, […]

What are the biggest issues facing the MLB today? Where do the rise of regional sports networks and the emphasis being placed on modern stadiums rank?

“The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” proclaimed Chicken Little in the classic folktale about mass hysteria. Along her journey to inform the king of the impending doom, the panicky bird convinced her friends Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey and Turkey Lurkey that their lives were in danger. Apparently, Chicken Little is alive […]

Faster prediction could be extremely helpful in making economic decisions, says David Lazer, one of the authors of the Royal Society Interface paper. “There’s an enormous amount invested by public and private entities to measure the status of the economy in order to better inform policy interventions. If we could understand the changes in the […]

Who is the Rhode Island person being questioned by authorities in the alleged terrorist plot that ended in the shooting death of a Boston man on Tuesday? So far, at least, most of the local media aren’t saying. But already a Rhode Island television station has breached the wall of silence, so you can be […]