Bostonia

Boston University has been ranked positively by several publications in the past few months, on both a national and an international scale...

With the Tsai Performance Center filled to its 500-seat capacity, many in the audience remembered when that hall was named Hayden, the University was in turmoil, and Howard Zinn was both lightning rod and radical catalyst. ...

Providing a synopsis of each of eight major world religions in Twitter-speak takes creative condensation. On Stephen Prothero’s feed, an “Ahh!” at th...

In the video: Nick Mills and Andrew Bacevich discuss the obstacles to a successful counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan. Watch the video...

If you’ve been looking for a job, you know the news is grim. By September, the unemployment had doubled — to 9.8 percent — since the start of the recession in December 2007, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More...

Last June, President Obama presented his case for radical overhaul of the U.S. health-care system to the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, a powerful physician assembly famous for resisting gov­ernment influence on the practice of medicine. More after jump...

For his latest book, Fans, Friends & Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age (CreateSpace, 2009), Scott Kirsner talked...

For five years, Raj Mohanty tinkered in a kind of parallel universe, an odd place where objects were so small they could be seen only with a scanning electron microscope and movements were so quick they were measured in billions of oscillations per second...