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 […]

Researchers at Northeastern University have studied human empathy for animals. In one experiment, people were given a false news story about a victim being beaten with a bat. The participants in the study were most upset when that “victim” was a 1-year-old child, followed by a puppy, then a dog and, finally, an adult human. […]

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 […]

An incoming Northeastern University student was among the people who rushed to the side of a Massachusetts man after he was attacked by a shark off the coast of North Carolina. Andrew Costello of Wareham was bitten by a shark on July 1 while swimming in waist-deep water off North Carolina’s Outer Banks on July 1. […]

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 […]

The defeat of the Boston Olympics bid was this summer’s Market Basket story — a feel-good saga about ordinary people triumphing over the moneyed interests. Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi calls the opponents “heroes.” Of course, there were a lot of good people involved in Boston 2024, and they don’t deserve to be cast as […]

Stephen Flynn, co-director of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University, said that collecting biometric information will eventually allow airports to identify threats more easily, since it adds an extra level of screening. “We have a reasonably high level of confidence that the people who use those programs pose no […]

“Some of the traditional things about traveling on the train have been lost for the current generation [of Japanese],” says Allan Bird, professor of global business at Northeastern University, and a business consultant in Japan for much of the 1970s and 1980s. As air travel gets more economical, everything from the pleasures of countryside sightseeing, […]

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 […]

Some immediate reactions were skeptical, amid questions on whether the site known for brash and unabashed reporting can be journalistically ethical. “Their mission is to be as mean-spirited as they possibly can. That’s been the Gawker brand from the beginning,” said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. Last week, Tommy Craggs, the executive […]

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 […]