Failing to find work doesn’t just mean a shortage of cash in the near term. A study released in March by the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program said finding a job when you’re older is harder if you haven’t worked during your teenage years. In addition, “research shows those who work in high school have […]

I have tried to fall in love with the beautiful game. In fact, when I taught a semester in the UK during a sabbatical, I even purchased shares in the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, and I proudly wear its colors. The problem is that for me — and apparently no one else in the world […]

Got a good idea? Why not write it on a white board mounted on a truck? Northeastern University is launching a new master’s degree in innovation and is celebrating with a “whiteboard innovation challenge,” meant to identify innovators who might be good candidates for the degree. The online contest includes an interactive mobile white board […]

Northeastern University wants your answer to the question: “How would you use technology to solve a problem you face every day?” And they want you to scribe that answer on the side of a truck. On Thursday, the university’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business will be announcing its Whiteboard Innovation Challenge at BostInno’s State of Innovation […]

The Oregon high school incident occurred five days after a shooting at Seattle Pacific University in Washington left one student dead, and slightly more than two weeks after a May 23 killing spree near the University of California, Santa Barbara, claimed seven lives, including the perpetrator. A study by Mr. Nichols and others published by […]

The live feed to Nahant from Fabien Cousteau’s Mission 31 is scheduled for next Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Northeastern University Marine Science Center on Nahant Road as part of the Summer Cinema by the Sea series. Previous announcements had it scheduled on a different day. A number of faculty and students from the […]

Yet it’s striking that these alienated and hostile young men had parents who knew something was terribly wrong. So why couldn’t they stop the carnage? Experts say that is a very complex question. In the first place, their sons were adults with agency — they could do what they wanted, and couldn’t be taken into […]

The political press today is engorged with analysis that attempts to explain why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost the Republican primary in his Virginia district to a Tea Party challenger on Tuesday. But given that the pundits were as surprised as everyone else, there is no particular reason to think they are capable of […]

It’s only natural, faced with atrocities like those that took place in Aurora or Sandy Hook or Isla Vista, to sink into a “What the hell is wrong with the world?” attitude. And based on the conversations that often follow these tragedies, it would be easy to think that life in the United States is […]

It was a terrible idea back in 2004. It is still a terrible idea—and two very different analyses help explain why. The first, by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, estimates that while cutting taxes for one year on repatriated earnings briefly generates new revenue, it significantly increases the deficit even within Congress’ usual 10-year […]

Andrew Sum, an economist at Northeastern University, is the lead author of a Brookings Institution paper published in March, “The Plummeting Labor Market Fortunes of Teens and Young Adults.” In an email, Sum wrote that “problems of mal-employment among young college grads had increased since 2000, leaving more of them in jobs that do not […]

Zombies are everywhere. On television, in the movies and on the docket of the Illinois Supreme Court. A $10.1 billion verdict against cigarette-maker Philip Morris USA has come back to life after it was overturned about nine years ago. The class-action case is up for review at the state Supreme Court, again. “Many people had […]