The Associated Press recently moved a provocative series about the changing landscape for jobs in the United States. It made a good case that middle-class jobs eliminated by technology and the recession aren’t coming back.

Congress likes to impose draconian consequences — the fiscal cliff, sequestration, national default — on itself, and unfortunately on the rest of us as well, for failing to do what it’s supposed to do.

North Korea’s latest nuclear weapons test was not unexpected, after weeks of bellicose talk, but it is deeply worrying and destabilizing for peace in the region.

A pair of economic studies should change the debate about whether a national park makes sense for northern Maine.

It’s not too often when we see the governor of Maine and the mayor of Portland singing from the same hymn book, so when it happens we know there really must be something to celebrate.

President Barack Obama surprised the experts on Tuesday with a new plan to spur economic growth and close the widening income gap: increase the minimum wage.

In nearly eight years as pope, Benedict XVI embraced a traditionalist — and to many critics, authoritarian — view of both the papacy and of church teaching. So it’s ironic that he will be remembered for his revolutionary decision to relinquish the Chair of St. Peter rather than die in office, the first such abdication in nearly 600 years.

According to the National Rifle Association, background checks of gun buyers can never be universal because criminals will never submit to them.

Grown-ups sure are funny people. Funny ha ha, no. Just weird. They say things like they mean it and then they do something just the opposite.

The only person to win the Tour de France seven times in a row admits to taking performance-enhancing drugs.