More passengers are beginning to think of themselves as prisoners of an airline rather than willing participants in a loyalty program. And more industry observers are seeing the toxic effects of these programs on a free market. “I believe there’s little question that the primary purpose of these programs is to put loyalty ahead of […]

“In extreme cases, they close a bridge,” said Jerome F. Hajjar, chairman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Northeastern University. “If you’re not able to adequately maintain it, it’s very likely it will continue to deteriorate.” So far, no T rail bridges have been closed. Taxpayers could be on the hook for the […]

Bystander. It’s a passive, even powerless, role by definition. But the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center, in partnership with the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, has been working to radically change that definition with a nationally-recognized program called Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) that empowers bystanders to responsibly and safely […]

Amid endless discussion about the MBTA’s damnable inattention to maintenance and its indulgent overexpansion, accountability has not been mentioned as one of the causes of the T’s meltdown. Lack of accountability may in fact be the organization’s biggest weakness. A raw fact of life is that the public sector is awfully good at ducking accountability. […]

Whenever we enter an online travel search, it’s our assumption that these deals are made just for us and that they’re the best available, but that may not always be the case. According to “Measuring Price Discrimination and Steering on E-commerce Web Sites,” a study published by Northeastern University in November 2014, numerous travel booking […]

Dan Danielsen, a Northeastern University law professor, co-authored a paper for the Open Society Foundations that took issue with the Weissmann report. It concluded that the proposals would “set back decades of progress in the global struggle against corruption.” Danielsen said in an interview that his review of cases brought under the foreign bribery law […]

Judge David Doty has been hearing labor and antitrust cases involving the National Football League and the Players Association for decades. Although he knows the parties and their collective bargaining agreement, his decision in the Adrian Peterson case shows he doesn’t know arbitration. His reversal of the hearing officer’s decision involving Peterson’s suspension threatens the […]

Walker, the labor secretary, said the new workforce skills cabinet will try to better connect industry not just to community colleges and vocational high schools but to the state’s career centers and regional workforce investment boards. A Northeastern University survey of Massachusetts manufacturers in 2012 found most do not view the public sector as a […]

Northeastern University Law School’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Institute exposes the truth about civil rights-era murders in the south, promoting official apologies, state pardons, memorialization activities, truth proceedings and institutional reform. The Mass Slavery Apology initiative engages in truth-telling to educate the public about the legacy of slavery and build support for reparations. These […]

The best way to evaluate whether a camp can handle your concerns is to talk to the director and provide specifics on the evaluation form — the series of detailed questions that probes camper likes and dislikes, as well as personality traits and social skills. “Nobody is saying that every camp has to be set up to […]

It may not feel like baseball season but the first full workout for the Boston Red Sox is Wednesday and they face off against the Twins in spring training just a week from Thursday. Writer Josh Pahigian is here to break through the winter, though, and get you into the spirit of the game. With […]

Babies raised in bilingual households spend significantly more time watching the mouth of the person speaking to them than their monolingual counterparts, according to a new study. David Lewkowicz, a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northeastern University, and colleagues in Barcelona, Spain, observed bilin­gual and monolingual infants as they watched […]