Even before Jacqueline Ho enrolled in her first environmental studies course at college, her thinking about climate change had been shaped during her years growing up in Singapore reading books by the environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben. At college, ideas first planted by McKibben were reinforced in courses where she read classics by Aldo […]

The oldest argument in defense of a liberal education is that we are not the sum of our earthly appetites. We are beings with souls, and those souls must be nourished through beauty, contemplation of our world, and awareness of our role within it. If we neglect meaning, our existence grinds into mechanics and dust. […]

Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. Jason Manekas is getting ready to leave his sunny ninth-floor office in the Seaport District to pick up his 5-year-old daughter, Perry. A framed photo from a father-daughter dance — Perry clutching a pink puppy purse, Manekas wearing a pink tie — sits on a shelf; Perry’s stick-figure drawings grace the inside […]

Wages in the Boston area grew more in the first quarter of this year than in any other metropolitan area in the country, thanks to demand for skilled tech and scientific talent, experts said. “We’ve been waiting for this as another sign that the recovery is expanding, to start seeing some wage pressure,” said Alan […]

Communities impacted by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake (and subsequent aftershocks) that struck Nepal on April 25th have a variety of needs, stemming from immediate protection of physical safety and security, access to life saving services, and basic subsistence (food, clean water, shelter) and psycho-social support in the aftermath of an extremely traumatic event. In the […]

Our cities have burned before. The broken spines of the Freddie Grays have, before, been the last straw, the flame to the powder keg. And before, the riots have been followed by congressional studies, journalistic reports and community healing projects. Often, public dollars have been pumped into stricken neighborhoods to spur renewal. And yet we […]

As Northeastern University terrorism scholar Max Abrahms notes, the removal of terrorist leaders often means more civilian deaths as a result of weakened leadership and the delegation of decisions to lower-ranking members. And even when one leader goes away, there’s usually someone ready to step in.

And at 11 years old in 1978, Van Truong Le arrived in Boston to live with his older brother and sister, and went back to school. “We were told Massachusetts had the best schools in the country, so we went in that direction and during those times it was a welcoming state for refugees, for […]

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Four former military contractors were sentenced earlier this month to lengthy prison terms for killing 14 unarmed Iraqis in a crowded Baghdad square on September 16, 2007. The Blackwater security contractors had been part of a heavily-armed convoy patrolling through a traffic circle in Baghdad’s Nisour Square when they stopped and fired at several cars […]

On May 13, two days before “Pitch Perfect 2” hits theaters, Northeastern University a cappella groups Pitch, Please! and the Nor’easters will appear on Pop network’s “Sing It On,” a show executive-produced by John Legend that gives viewers an inside look at a cappella ensembles. You can already check out performances by the local groups […]

As I document in my new book Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web, online reviews affect merchants’ bottom lines. Multiple studies have shown that good reviews permit merchants to charge higher prices, increase restaurant bookings, and sales of books, hotel rooms and video games. Accordingly, review platforms are […]