Fresh from tentatively settling the class action lawsuit based on the concussions suffered by its players, the National Football League faces a new challenge that promises to cause the League migraines for years to come. Eight former NFL players — Richard Dent, Jim McMahon, Jeremy Newberry, Roy Green, J.D. Hill, Keith Van Horne, Ron Stone […]

I thoroughly enjoy Twitter. I enjoy its compression, its instant gratification, and the fact you can connect with just about anyone anywhere about anything in no time at all. (Plus, it’s helped start revolutions.) Not that we need a whole lot of new data to prove the global power of social media, but I spent […]

Northeastern University is starting a master of science in innovation.

One Boston startup has been offering customers “Don’t-Do-It-Yourself” storage since 2010, but it’s still managed to remain relatively unnoticed – ask someone if they’ve ever heard of Fetch Storage and there’s a good chance the answer will be no. Brij Patel, one of the company’s co-founders, told BostInno “word of mouth” and “Google searches” have thus far […]

EACH YEAR several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them. One of the key tools is the use […]

Already known for adopting some of the country’s toughest gun control laws, Massachusetts lawmakers may soon debate whether to restrict firearms access even further. Democrats in the Legislature are preparing to unveil a sweeping gun safety bill that’s expected to put new limits on gun licensing, restrict private sales, expand background checks for gun buyers […]

These are graduation days all over – college, community college, high school – and, for most, the very next agenda item is a job.  The years of the Great Recession were brutal for new grads.  And long.  What about now?  The Class of 2014 is reported to be the most optimistic in years about its […]

One of us (Paul) had the opportunity last week to speak to Richard Susskind’s conference in Scotland on the future of law, enjoying one of the great expressions from Richard: “Most clients would rather have a guardrail at the top of the hill rather than an ambulance at the bottom.” While that’s undoubtedly true of clients, […]

But academics who study terrorism pointed to the changing rhetoric emanating from the White House as a positive sign for U.S.-Chinese relations. While governments ought to take care in branding activities “terrorist” given the license for violent response that such a word implicitly conveys, in this case the term would appear to apply, some suggested, […]

Bureo skateboards look like fish because they are made from old fishing nets. They started out as garbage — fishing nets discarded in the waters off Chile. About 640,000 tons of these nets clog the world’s oceans, and that’s only a tenth of the world’s debris. According to a report from the Coastal Conservancy, in […]

Q: Does the Boston Globe disclose that John Henry owns the paper whenever it reports on one of his other business interests? Or does it omit that information, leaving less-savvy readers in the dark? A: Yes. Tuesday was a case in point. On page one, the Globe’s Brian MacQuarrie reported that the Stop Handgun Violence billboard on Lansdowne […]

General Motors Co.’s (NYSE:GM) problems have gotten so bad that this year it has recalled more vehicles than it’s sold since the company’s 2009 bankruptcy, raising questions about whether the century-old carmaker has made any progress under U.S. taxpayer support. The last time GM had a recall even close to this year’s 13.7 million vehicle […]