Employers who don’t want to find themselves in a short on staff in the late summer may shy away from hiring younger workers. Alicia Sasser Modestino, a labor economist at Northeastern University, says teens now have lots of competition for summer work. “If you add on one or two more reasons like school starting early […]

Though Congress has been willing to spend almost unlimited resources on the Navy, [Stephen] Flynn, who now serves as co-director of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University, described the coast guard as chronically underfunded. He believes their being forced to do certain things “less well” in order to be […]

As summer begins to turn into fall, the pace of Peter Roby’s days becomes characteristically quicker. And the Northeastern Atheletic Director has no choice in the matter, as more than 400 student athletes he helps to guide are gearing up for another season. “Some of our teams have already been here for three weeks or […]

Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis (D) expressed bewilderment Sunday with the size of the GOP’s 2016 presidential field. “What’s going on with the Republican side is even more confusing,” Dukakis told host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York’s AM-970. “It’s certainly entertaining,” added Dukakis, an unsuccessful 1988 Democratic presidential candidate. “If you […]

At about 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 15, 2008, a press release went out from the 158-year-old investment bank Lehman Brothers announcing it was seeking bankruptcy protection. Lehman’s downfall would become the watershed event of the financial crises. While this event may not be seared into American memories like the September 11 terrorist attacks, the collapse […]

Northeastern University law professor Roger Abrams, an authority on sports and labor law, joined WBUR’s Morning Edition to review a judge’s ruling throwing out Tom Brady’s four-game suspension.

Roger I. Abrams, a sports law professor at Northeastern who has served as an arbitrator for Major League Baseball contract disputes, said the “notice” argument alone won the case for Brady. The NFL tried to penalize Brady under policies that are handed out to team executives and personnel, but not players. The only penalty on […]

It’s not clear if a chosen profession makes sense for inclusion in hate crime statutes. Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University, told U.S. News and World Report that hate crimes are intended to protect groups from long-standing patterns of prejudice. “Hopefully the ambushing of police officers will turn out to be a short-term clustering […]

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 […]

“There’s no reliable way we can identify those 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 do […]

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 […]