“His refusal to perform according to the boundaries and rules placed upon him by an organization with a racist history, his open rebuking of corporate overlords whose wealth is gained through consumption of his body and his blackness, are political acts,” said Sarah Jackson, assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and author of Black Celebrity, Racial […]

The study, undertaken by researchers at the IIT, Northeastern University, University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Washington, shows that over the same period, more than half of the studied areas witnessed a significant increase in the number of individual extreme hot days, whilst almost two-thirds saw notable increases in the number of […]

“The state and national economies appear to have achieved escape velocity following an extended but steady recovery from the Great Recession,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor who analyzes a variety of data to estimate the state’s economic growth rate. The estimates are released quarterly in MassBenchmarks, a journal of the state economy […]

This Sunday, the New England Patriots will take on the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX. If past Super Bowls are any guide, the event will be among the most hyped and the most watched TV event ever. But for some people — even for some football fans — it’s become complicated to root for […]

Do working fathers have things all figured out? Employed dads who spend more time caring for their children feel greater job satisfaction and less work-life conflict, according to a new paper on parent involvement and work. Dads appear more serene than mothers, who feel more friction between work and home life when they devote more time […]

The negotiations between Jordan and Islamic State worry some governments and experts on terrorist groups, who say it risks legitimatizing the extremist group and encourage further kidnapping. “It is a great way to free up some of the bigger names in prison, and we could see more demands like this,” said Max Abrahms, a professor […]

The U.S. and U.K. have urged their allies not to pay ransoms to Islamic State and other militant groups. But Spain and France are believed to have made payoffs of up to millions of dollars each for the release last year of citizens held by Islamic State, according to the militants and some Western diplomats. […]

Twenty years ago, my research into French-speakers in Israel and Palestine seemed like an obscure topic to a lot of friends and colleagues. With the current uptick in terrorist-triggered emigration from France to Israel, it is anything but. There has long been an ambivalent relationship between France and the Holy Land, between French and the […]

MBTA trains will resume operation on a normal schedule today after being grounded for the duration of yesterday’s marathon blizzard — a move that Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh hailed, but one critic suggested was complete overkill.

“It’s the nature of how elevated sports are in this country, even at the youth level,” said Dan Lebowitz, the executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society. “By the time a basketball or football player gets to Division I or Division II, they’ve already been a star in their […]

The memory of the Holocaust continues to shape the policies and international relations of the country that came out of World War II as a homeland for Jews, experts say. “The Holocaust profoundly shapes Israeli foreign policy. I would describe it as being the original trauma — a trauma that cast a long shadow on […]

The monstrous blizzard that’s expected to bring much of the state to a standstill for the next two days will send a ripple effect through the economy, affecting everything from workers’ wages and business revenue to municipal budgets and the state deficit. The storm could create a “chain-reaction of potential negativity,” said Oscar Brookins, a […]