Nothing demonstrates human interconnectedness like the spread of infectious disease.

No issue is more important to Maine people than jobs and our state’s sluggish recovery from the national recession.

“While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.”

The not-guilty verdict is in but the execution is already over.

It’s amazing what a difference an artificial border, a line on a map, can make.

It’s scientifically safe to make plans for 2013. The world will not end on Dec. 21 or the default date of Dec. 23, according to a newly discovered Mayan calendar.

Here are three sobering statistics about health, life and death to contemplate.

There was a time in America when someone could give a bag of cash to a congressman and call it a campaign contribution without any limits or record of the transaction.

It’s important to remember why parents support their kids in their athletic endeavors: We want them to have fun with sports, as well as learn lessons about physical fitness, the value of teamwork and the rewards of sacrifice. We want them to learn about how to handle winning and losing when nothing really important is at stake.

Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act is a critical task that merits thoughtful attention. It’s distressing — even sickening — that debate about this landmark law has devolved into one more election-year grudge match between Democrats and Republicans shamelessly using gender to try to score political points.