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The court said a ban on beards violated the prisoner's religious freedom. The state of Arkansas had argued that the beard presented security concerns and that it could be used to hide contraband.

Clinton began his seventh year with a unique if dubious distinction: He was the only president ever to give a State of the Union speech with impeachment charges pending against him in the Senate.

Abdelkader Benali discusses the issues facing Europe's young, marginalized Muslims, and his own experience in the Netherlands.

Brad Wolverton of the Chronicle of Higher Education calls the shift a "new era in college sports."

Most countries would welcome a 7.3 percent growth rate for the last quarter of 2014, but for China it represents a slowdown.

In 1911, high on the bluffs near Oregon, Ill., a 48-foot concrete statue known as Black Hawk was unveiled — a massive, robed figure with arms crossed,…

My wife and I were feeling housebound on a recent rainy Sunday, so we set out for one of my favorite places in Springfield: a small used-books store near…

The Republican tsunami that swept the nation last month was little more than a gentle comber when it reached Illinois. Indeed, one might argue the GOP…

Critic Alan Cheuse says John Vaillant's intense tale of illegal immigrants trapped in a tanker truck in the Arizona desert expands a single terrible story into a history of human suffering.

In 1963, Tony Verna changed the way we watch sports forever when he created "instant replay." He died this week at the age of 81. Robert Siegel talks to freelance writer Anna Clark about his legacy.