It's been more than one month since students hit social media to decry a photo of Saluki swimmers in Mexican-themed Halloween costumes. Yet Saluki Athletics has just now gotten around to admitting the...

Gov. Bruce Rauner wants to give the state's public universities some grades, and base part of their funding on how they perform.That's the basis behind the governor's latest proposal for spending in higher...

In the longest and wildest political convention in American history, it took Democratic delegates 103 rounds of voting over 17 days in 1924 in New York's Madison Square Garden before John W. Davis captured...

There's a double standard in the Democratic race for president, and it's something we might as well talk about now rather than later. It's the same double standard that dogged the 2008 Democratic nomination...

In 1969, Illinois' Cook County states attorney Edward Hanrahan orchestrated what amounted to a police assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, two leaders of the Illinois Black Panther Party.Hanrahan —...

Hillary Clinton's March 15 sweep of Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio effectively slammed the door on the story that would have dominated this presidential primary season were it not...

It's a shame that a fundamentally decent man is about to become a victim of indecent politics.By virtually all accounts, President Barack Obama's nominee to fill the Scalia vacancy on the U.S. Supreme...

Republican front-runner Donald Trump has been accused of fomenting violence at his political rallies, and violence seems to have ensued: Videos show Trump fans taking swings at protesters — often minorities....

The news flash out of Chicago on Friday evening amounted to "Protesters shut down Trump rally."That wasn't quite true, of course. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump shut down his own campaign...

It has come to this. Thanks to political posturing and empty rhetoric in Springfield, more SIU jobs could be lost and an already bleeding state university system may go into full hemorrhage mode. SIU...

Something like 40 pounds of poop.  For the sake of science, I, Thomas Donley, toured each and every bathroom at SIUC, in order to find the best and worst places to do your business. That is about how...