The governors of Washington and Rhode Island are taking the lead in addressing a problem that also exists here in Maine. Gov. Paul LePage would do well to join the fight.

When Herman Cain told his staff Tuesday that he was doing a “reassessment” of his campaign after new accusations of adulterous behavior, many pundits saw it as the beginning of the end for the onetime GOP presidential front-runner.

There’s nothing new about the way Yarmouth Dr. Phillip Frederick practices medicine. In fact, it sounds kind of old fashioned.

Nothing puts a damper on prospects more than a down economy, and apparently that extends to the area of starting or expanding families.

Syria’s President, Bashar Assad, ignored the lessons of the Arab Spring and, in fact, insisted in January that his country was immune to a popular uprising because he was in tune with the people. Today, the 46-year-old eye doctor who inherited power 11 years ago from his father is on the verge of being toppled — by the very people he thought he knew.

We survived the fruitless deliberations of the congressional supercommittee.

Manufacturing is not, as the conventional wisdom would have it, dead. The United States produces more goods than any other country in the world. No. 2, with many more people, is China.

There’s one thing that all Alz-heimer’s researchers agree on: The mind-robbing illness is heartbreaking. But after three decades of study that have produced neither cure nor medications that significantly slow its progress, some researchers are asking: What if it’s not a disease with a cure? What if it’s just an unfortunate but inevitable part of aging, along with wrinkly skin, osteoporosis and heart disease?

Political turmoil in Washington. Economic chaos in Europe. Unemployment everywhere.