However, a racial profiling expert said complaints are not a good barometer to determine whether there’s a problem. “Citizens are either afraid of retaliation from police so they don’t complain, or more often, they just believe nothing’s going to happen, so why bother,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at […]

With ISIS drawing teenage recruits despite “theology of rape”; and holding territory against Iraqi troops, is it time for US boots to return to the battlefield? GUEST: Craig Gruber, Northeastern University terrorism expert.

But Greg Goodale, the associate dean in the college of arts, media, and design at Northeastern University, said it’s about something else too: free media. There are too many candidates and not enough space on the airways to support television commercials for each of them in early voting states, Goodale said. Candidates, super PACs, and […]

If you haven’t gone on your first job interview yet, you may be a bit nervous preparing for your first. I didn’t really know how what to expect during my first co-op interview when I was a sophomore at Northeastern. Now as a senior, I can share some of what I’ve learned along the way. My tips for […]

MY MUGGER AND I didn’t discuss matters. He came toward me, I moved to pass him, he stepped into my path again, he pulled the gun out. I held up my phone and wallet, and said, “What else do you need?” He grabbed the phone out of my hands and said, “What else have you […]

“He looked angry and bitter and unattractive and that’s not the image of Tom Brady that many people think of when they think of him,” Daniel Medwed, a devoted New England Patriots fan and professor of criminal law at Northeastern University in Boston, says. After fielding criticism, Rosenberg apologized to Brady for not making him […]

Other legal specialists, even as they acknowledge the horrors allegedly inflicted by Lints, recoil at the notion that judges should intervene in cases in which an entire family is in agreement about who should gain custody. “The idea that the state gets to tell you whether you have it together enough to bring up your […]

While numerous political commentators have offered up their opinion about who won or lost last week’s GOP debate, we here at the Lazer Lab at Northeastern University spent the last week looking at the numbers. Actually we looked at the words: What did candidates actually talk about? How much did they talk, and for how […]

Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and the author of Presidential Debates: 50 Years of High-Risk TV, agrees, noting that on the Republican side, it has been the debate hosts, not the Republican National Committee, that set the rules for the debates. “The DNC may threaten to keep somebody out of a future debate, but […]

What has eight letters and adds no brand value? A-L-P-H-A-B-E-T. Google’s reorganization and rebranding are so far earning positive responses on Wall Street, but it’s hard to see how it adds any value to the business and there is always the possibility that the change may cause damage. Company name changes of this magnitude are few […]

Joseph Reagle, a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and the author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, tends to agree with Maher’s assessment. “If we were to enumerate the list of the things that would cause people to be skeptical of the quality of Wikipedia … I suspect paid contribution would […]

Another danger of debit cards is theft, says Coleen Pantalone, a finance professor at the Northeastern University D’Amore McKim School of Business in Boston. “As long as there is money in the account or overdraft privileges, the thief can keep taking money out,” Pantalone says. Pantalone’s advice fits just about every scenario, whether your college […]