First thing Tuesday morning, jurors will return to the Moakley Federal Courthouse in South Boston for the start of the next phase of the death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Two weeks ago, that same jury convicted Tsarnaev on 30 counts relating to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. 17 of those counts carry the death […]

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With the release of his new book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, journalist Fareed Zakaria became the latest commentator to join the robust debate over whether the purpose of college is to promote professional advancement or personal growth. The debate typically contrasts the self-betterment offered by the liberal arts — usually meaning the humanities […]

Law school applications are declining more slowly and entry level hiring has begun to recover. First-year law school enrollments have shrunk from more than 52,000 in 2010 to a far more sustainable 38,000 in 2014. Recent studies by Profs. Frank McIntyre and Michael Simkovic continue to vindicate the long-run earning power of the J.D. degree. […]

In politics, it’s become conventional wisdom that talking seriously to regular Americans doesn’t really pay off. Numerous studies have found that citizens appear to dig in their heels, resisting information that contradicts their beliefs—if they’re informed enough to have meaningful beliefs in the first place. When politicians talk to voters, the goal is usually to […]

David Lazer, a professor of political science and computer science at Northeastern University, questions how often people tweet about something they are so used to dealing with, such as a chronic illness. “There’s a novelty bias in social media,” says Lazer, who has not reviewed the University of Arizona study. “If you get the flu, […]

But is this the best use of taxpayer funds? The Massachusetts Department of Revenue reports that between 2006 and 2012, the state doled out $356.7 million in film credits, which by the DOR’s math meant each Massachusetts job cost the state roughly $118,000. Those jobs had a median income of nearly $65,000. “We’re using about […]

Northeastern professor and media commentator Dan Kennedy has mixed reactions to the new enterprise. “I do think journalists ought to do more to seek out real experts on subjects they’re writing about,” he said. But he’s not yet convinced about The Conversation’s viability here. “The media market here is very different. In the UK, most […]

Massachusetts employers have continued to add jobs at a steady pace, giving people who have given up on finding work the confidence to start looking again. The participation rate — the percentage of working age Bay State residents with a job or actively looking for work — rose 0.3 percent last month to 66.2 percent, […]

The surge in luxury market prices is another indicator of the income gap in Greater Boston. It comes as more Boston-area families stretch to make ends meet. The share of households spending more than a third of their income on housing — generally considered the threshold for affordability — has jumped to more than 38 […]

Jurors were not persuaded, and Hernandez will now spend the rest of his life in prison, barring a successful appeal before the state Supreme Judicial Court. The appeal process could take years, experts said. Hernandez’s appellate team will scour the trial transcript before filing their brief with the SJC, said Daniel S. Medwed, a Northeastern […]

The Justice Department recently analyzed eight years of shootings by Philadelphia police officers. Its report contained two sobering statistics: Fifteen percent of those shot were unarmed; and in half of these cases, an officer reportedly misidentified a “nonthreatening object (e.g., a cellphone) or movement (e.g., tugging at the waistband)” as a weapon. Many factors presumably […]