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 […]

Q&A with Thomas Vicino and Wallet Hub Q: Sponsors seem to be placing big bets on there being record U.S. interest in the World Cup — will they be right? A: After Brazilians, Americans have purchased more tickets (over 150,000 tickets) to World Cup matches than any other country. We live in a more globalized […]

“I think that unless we can find a way to solve our housing problem, we cannot solve the income inequality problem,” said Barry Bluestone, an economist at Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center. “Because if you think about income inequality, it’s not just, ‘Do you have a high income or a low income,’ it’s ‘How much does […]

The two shooters in the Las Vegas violence were a man and a woman, police said, which also makes this episode unusual, because 97 percent of these shooters are male. Las Vegas police said they believe the female shooter shot and killed the male gunman before taking her own life. According to the FBI, four […]

This is the first time a challenge to the way the NCAA operates has gotten this far. It is part of a broader effort to change the way major college sports are operated that includes several other lawsuits challenging various NCAA regulations and a unionization effort that won a vote for football players at Northwestern […]

Carla Kaplan, a professor of American literature at Northeastern University, is the 2014 winner of the Boston Authors Club’s Julia Ward Howe Award for “Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance” (HarperCollins). “Miss Anne” is a term applied to white women who played a role in the Harlem Renaissance, some of […]