“You’ve got so many millions of people watching and so many instantaneous evaluations of their performance, any candidate that doesn’t measure up, it gets magnified in a way that wasn’t true before,” said Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who wrote a book covering half a century of presidential debate history. The nature […]

Commercials that get into our kids heads drive us crazy. When we see them salivating over enticing ads designed to make them pine for every last morsel of candy, new gimmick or any unhealthy vice, we are outraged. And we should be. It’s pretty despicable companies do this. As adults, we are also of great […]

In just one out of every 300 bankruptcy cases where the filer has student loan debt will the filer try to get it discharged, according to an estimate from Daniel Austin, a professor at Northeastern University’s school of law, who tracks these cases. That’s despite the fact that for bankruptcy filers with student loan debt, […]

“It really seemed to have a good impact,” said Jack McDevitt, the lead researcher and director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University. “It showed officers can be smarter about searching.” Beginning last year, Connecticut measured every law enforcement agency against seven benchmarks, including whether officers stopped minorities more often in the […]

People joke that there is no such thing as “business ethics.” They call it an oxymoron – a concept that combines contradictory ideas. Sadly, the critics are right. Changing that may require holding those guilty of unethical behavior personally responsible for their actions. In just the last several weeks a former peanut company owner was […]

Some argue that the first world will buffer itself against climate change with technological innovations—air conditioning is credited with saving the American South’s economy, and agricultural companies are already breeding heat resistant crops. But historically—and based on this analysis—that hasn’t been and won’t be true. “If you look back to the 1960s to now, any subset of […]

Professor Todd Brown, who teaches at Northeastern University’s School of Pharmacy, said the increase in prices is, “a bigger issue across most medications in general now.” Brown added, “Pharmaceutical companies have really changed the way they price medications. It used to be related to the impact of the medication. And now it has really changed […]

According to James Alan Fox, a professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, criminal activity tends to increase on three specific holidays — New Year’s Eve, Independence Day and Halloween. Between 2006 and 2009, crime around the city of Boston was 50 percent higher on October 31 than any other date all year. Similarly, in Canada, police […]

Barry Bluestone, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, agrees. But even so, he notes, these sort of policies barely scratch the surface of Boston’s huge demand for middle-class housing. “They are good-hearted attempts at trying to provide housing for working families,” he said. “The problem is that we […]

Pursuing your degree? Feeling the pressure? It’s that time in the term, when the heat is turned up-between deadlines, exams and everything in between. If you are a student of today, you likely have a lot going on in the between. Ideas about “traditional” and “non-traditional” students have flipped, with increasing numbers of students being […]

Northeastern University on Saturday announced that it will offer the parents and siblings of current undergraduates a 25 percent discount on graduate programs. “Ensuring that we make experiential, lifelong learning opportunities available to the family members who support our current undergraduates is crucial,” said a statement from Joseph E. Aoun, Northeastern’s president. He made the […]

Not only must exculpatory evidence be shared, it must be shared promptly. “Immediacy is not required, but the law demands some level of promptness,” said Daniel Medwed, professor of law at Northeastern University. “More to the point . . . we should expect and demand immediate compliance.” The best prosecutors would have shared that information right after […]