Rogers Worthington

Cornel West packs in 400 spellbound students Mondays when he lectures on "Race, Nation and Democracy." Over at A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.'s seminar on "Race and the American Legal Process,"...

City Water Commissioner John Bolden had something urgent to tell Mayor Richard Daley. He said he couldn't wait, but he did, quietly, in the outer office, looking like a normal...

His car festooned with angry bumper stickers, James Nichols made no bones about telling the world that he wanted nothing to do with his government. He bragged about not paying...

We were a Christian Nation, till some envisioned goal enslaved the Christian people, through government control. A mass of public servants, were selected for this cause, enforcing public policies, that...

Between sips of her steaming hot coffee at Starbucks in Elmhurst, Jacky Merrill explained that she and her husband, Curt, regularly donate money to help low-income families in Chicago. And...

Of all the test-tube fabrics man has concocted, none ever got a worse rap than polyester. So how did Agracetus Inc., a small bio-engineering firm in Middleton, Wis., with big...

Five days before Jeffrey Dahmer was killed, he met with Roy Ratcliff, the minister who was his only visitor at the Columbia Correctional Institution, for their weekly Bible study session....

To most people, Jeffrey Dahmer is a ghoul. To John James Smith, family members say, he was an obsession. His relatives say Smith, a 19-year-old from Carol Stream, was surprised...

Members of Minnesota's congressional delegation are demanding answers from the Army about tests of simulated biological warfare agents on unsuspecting Minneapolis residents in 1953. The tests, which involved spraying zinc...

A heavy voter turnout that included independents and Democratic crossovers set the scene Tuesday for a suspenseful gubernatorial primary race between two dueling Iowa Republicans. Earlier predictions of a tidy...