The classic, justly admired Simon and Garfunkel album, “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” has sold 25 million copies around the world since its release in 1970. But when a newly re-mastered edition came out last year, Roy Halee, one of the disc’s producers, made a startling admission — because the master tapes for the disc were in such terrible condition, the engineers doing the sonic spit-and-polish might have been better off finding a pristine vinyl copy for their work.

People like to bury political parties. It was only four years ago, after losing the Congress and the White House, people said the Republicans had lost touch with the country, were on the wrong side of demographic trends and were destined to go the way of the Whigs.

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.