The middle class used to be fairly easy to define: an affordable home, good schools, a little money saved for a family vacation. But today, almost half of all Americans live with certain anxiety because of an uncertain economy. That’s why WGBH News is focusing on rediscovering the middle class. Reporter Stephanie Leydon kicks off […]

The people who are ultimately selected must all share something in common: They cannot be opposed to the death penalty. “This case is not about guilt,” Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, told NPR. “In my mind, this case is really about whether or not he’s going to get the death penalty.”

Experts list multiple benefits that can come from offering on-site, nutritious food to employees. In addition to improved health of the workforce, Leonard Glick, executive professor of management and organizational development at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, identifies the good will. “You never know when that will pay off,” he says. “Employees stay with […]

The recent failure of grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island to indict white police officers who killed unarmed black men has sparked outrage across the nation. And for good reason. The chief prosecutors in those two jurisdictions each appeared to take an objective, balanced and deliberate approach in presenting the evidence to the grand […]

NPR’s Tovia Smith reports that prosecutors have amassed a trove of evidence linking Tsarnaev to the bombings. That’s why Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed says, “This case is not about guilt.” “In my mind,” Medwed adds, “this case is really about whether or not he’s going to get the death penalty.”

Daniel Medwed, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, said the judge seems to have set up a cautious vetting process. “To take a slow, deliberate approach to jury selections is the best course possible,” he said. “You want to avoid the front-end errors, so that you don’t face back-end problems years later.”

“This case is not about guilt,” says Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed. “In my mind, this case is really about whether or not he’s going to get the death penalty.” Medwed says defense attorneys appear to be building a case that Tsarnaev’s life should be spared because he was acting, in a way, under […]

Northeastern University and Esquire are collaborating at a smaller scale, but with a similar innovation-oriented goal. This spring, the university’s journalism school will run a course where students will take traditional pieces in the Esquire archive and “reimagine” them for a digital audience. Tyler Cabot, senior features editor at Esquire, says the magazine is looking […]

Still, not everything is rosy headed into the year. Economic slowdowns in Europe and Asia paired with a stronger dollar could make business challenging for exporters, analysts said. In Massachusetts, exports account for about 5 percent of the state economy, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economics professor at Northeastern University.

One of the more puzzling recent trends in ocean management has been the record hauls of lobsters that have come in over the past few years. Could the reason be that lobstermen are actually more like farmers than fishermen? That’s the provocative suggestion of a new article in Modern Farmer, which cites research by Northeastern […]

The state of race relations in the United States has captivated the country for months. But a group of Northeastern University law students is looking to the past to a sometimes forgotten, violent part of American history. The Civil Rights Restorative Justice Project is working to document every racially motivated killing in the American South […]

So while the buffer rules offer the kind of tension justices love to weigh in on, they may also hesitate to act without other court decisions. “On a human level, this case might be less likely to be taken up,” said Martha Davis, a law professor at Northeastern University. “Why not wait until a case […]