There is plenty of prece­dent for enter­tainers making a suc­cessful tran­si­tion into pol­i­tics, and in recent years Ashley Judd has been grad­u­ally reori­enting her­self in that direc­tion. A recent grad­uate … read more »

PHOTO: North­eastern Uni­ver­sity Pres­i­dent Joseph E. Aoun, left, and Home­land Secu­rity Sec­re­tary Janet Napoli­tano, center, place a wreath at Northeastern’s Vet­erans Memo­rial during cer­e­monies on the school’s campus, in Boston, … read more »

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s most dan­gerous oppo­nent in the trio of upcoming pres­i­den­tial debates isn’t Mitt Romney.  

OK — so, not quite a movie. But this data visu­al­iza­tion video by David Lazer, Mauro Martino, Yu-ru Lin of North­eastern Uni­ver­sity is pretty darned cool — and shows how, over time, major pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates have … read more »