Sullivan County had long garnered a reputation as a place of wellness, often being quite literally what the doctor ordered for those unable to properly convalesce in the city, but the advent of air conditioning made it less of a necessity—especially for vacationers with smaller budgets—to escape the Big Smoke for breezier weather. Dr. Phil […]

The horrifying execution of journalist James Foley raises an uncomfortable if familiar question: Is there anything to be gained by watching the video of his beheading at the hands of an ISIS terrorist? It’s a question that I explored 12 years ago, when Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was similarly murdered. I searched for […]

The beheading of James Foley by a man whom UK intelligence agencies are close to identifying as a British national didn’t just reveal the brutality of how ISIS operates. It raised questions about why a large number of young Muslim men from across Europe have joined the ranks of the Sunni militant group. Thousands of […]

One of the strangest of the ways that Islamic State has forced us to rethink the Middle East is also one of the saddest: There are now common line of thought that says the United States could ally itself with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime to fight the extremist group also known as ISIS […]

CNN’s Hala Gorani speaks to Professor Max Abrahms about the possibility of the U.S. working with Syria to fight ISIS.

During a White House press briefing last week, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was clear on the administration’s ultimate goal with regard to the Islamic State: “Absolutely, in the long term our objective would be to see an organization like ISIL defeated,” said Rhodes. He wasn’t the only administration official pledging the group’s ultimate […]

What we do daily has a profound effect on our lives. A good daily reading ritual can keep you informed about the world and your industry. But if you’re a curious person with limited time, how can you make the most of the minutes you have? MAKE PEACE WITH INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE. You will never read […]

With summer drawing to a close, children across America are engaged in age-old back-to-school rituals. For many, the start of school also involves something newer — active shooter drills, possibly even with fake blood and blanks fired in the hallway for added realism. Countless schools have adopted these simulations, voluntarily or by legislative mandate. The […]

Exports play an important role in the Massachusetts economy. The more than $25 billion a year in goods that local companies sell in foreign markets each year supports 70,000, or about one in four manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts, according to Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economics professor at Northeastern University. In an interview, Export-Import Bank Chairman Fred […]

The innate secrecy surrounding hazing makes it even more difficult to quantify. Another obstacle is the age of high school students. There are “not a lot of studies on high school age because they’re minors,” according to Fahlberg. Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society, said another […]

In the Washington Post, Adam Taylor talked to several scholars about how IS was changing the rules in the Middle East. “Americans are understandably reluctant to help Assad because he is a depraved dictator who responded to the Arab Awakening by turning his military against the Syrian population,” he quotes Max Abrahams, a terrorism policy […]

“Americans are understandably reluctant to help Assad because he is a depraved dictator who responded to the Arab Awakening by turning his military against the Syrian population,” Max Abrahms, a Northeastern University professor and terrorist analyst, explains. “But Washington also needs to consider how best to protect the American population.” “Whereas Assad has never posed […]