Businesses understand that generating more of a product than customers want is a money-losing proposition.

After almost nine years, the war in Iraq is officially over, at least for American troops.

The number of doctors — there are nearly 70,000 — and their salaries are both at all-time highs. More Canadians have a family doctor than in years past, proof that progress has been made. But access to them is among the worst in the world. How can that be?

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following editorial, among the most famous ever written, appeared in The New York Sun in 1897 and remains appropriate for this holiday season 114 years later.

A week after Hannaford supermarkets pulled suspect ground beef from their shelves, Maine consumers still have questions.

Imagine what a picture it would make for next year’s Christmas card: A new four-legged and furry family member on Christmas morning. But wait just a sugarplum minute, Santa.

Gov. Paul LePage made a rare appearance in a legislative hearing room this week and was not shy about saying that he didn’t like what he saw.

Christmas was controversial from the moment it arrived in the New World with the first European settlers. And, despite the intervening four centuries, it has intermittently remained so ever since.

We rise in defense of the Christmas sweater, a festive addition to the holiday that is unfairly maligned and ridiculed.

It’s a seasonal tradition, as predictable as wreaths and reindeer: Social conservatives accuse the news media, government, public schools and culture in general of waging a “war on Christmas.”