North­eastern Uni­ver­sity School of Law pro­fessor Daniel Medwed said the Dein and Wood­lock rul­ings are note­worthy. “It’s incred­ibly striking to have sea­soned, rea­son­able judges say that ‘I have never seen … read more »

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity School of Law pro­fessor Daniel Medwed said it is shocking that a fed­eral case could get out of the grand jury, let alone go to trial, without the … read more »

Energy effi­ciency used to mean keeping the ther­mo­stat below 68 degrees or putting on a sweater. No longer. A gen­er­a­tion of study and tech­no­log­ical advances have trans­formed the field — making … read more »

Mit­i­gating cli­mate change doesn’t sound as mon­u­mental as ending, or reversing cli­mate change. But with global phe­nom­enon already “con­tributing to the deaths of nearly 400,000 people a year and costing … read more »

Mass­a­chu­setts passed some of the toughest guns laws in the nation in 1998, but sta­tis­tics show that since then, the number of gun-​​​​related crimes com­mitted here has risen. The Boston Globe … read more »

His­tor­i­cally, cor­po­ra­tions have tended to view global cli­mate change and green­house gas emis­sions as envi­ron­mental issues that don’t affect their bottom line, and there­fore don’t affect how they do busi­ness. … read more »

Never under­es­ti­mate the power of Face­book. That’s what Ryan Cordell found out when his five chil­dren posted a pic­ture holding this sign “Hi World! We want a puppy! Our dad … read more »

Gov. Deval Patrick is offering more specifics on his sweeping plan to raise income taxes and cut the sales tax, which he first out­lined last week. This after­noon, the gov­ernor … read more »

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama pledged in his inau­gural address on Monday to respond to the threat of cli­mate change, saying: “The path towards sus­tain­able energy sources will be long and some­times … read more »

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s choice of Myrlie Evers-​​​​Williams to deliver the invo­ca­tion at his second inau­gu­ra­tion shifts the nation’s gaze on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ever so gently from … read more »

With increasing reports of extreme weather and head­lines about 2012 being the warmest year on record, cli­mate change can no longer be ignored. This spring Cognoscenti teams up with the School … read more »

What do we mean when we talk about the immi­nent threat of rapid and irre­versible cli­mate change? And what eth­ical respon­si­bil­i­ties do we — espe­cially those of us in the soci­eties … read more »