Jim Oliphant

A lifetime ago, when I was very young, the children in our extended family would congregate on Christmas morning at the top of a long staircase at my grandparents' house,...

by James Oliphant The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday filed suit against the Department of Defense in a Washington, D.C. federal court, seeking records related to all deaths of detainees...

by James Oliphant Justice John Paul Stevens, the Chicago native who once was part of a Supreme Court majority that reinstated the death penalty in America in 1976, Wednesday indicated...

by James Oliphant The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday held that the lethal injection method used by the state of Kentucky and more than 30 other states doesn't violate the Constitution's...

by James Oliphant Bruce Springsteen hopes Barack Obama can lead America to the Promised Land. And Hillary Clinton? She's on the receiving end of a Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out. Yep, crank...

by James Oliphant Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter announced last evening that he had been diagnosed with a recurrance of Hodgkin's Disease, a cancer of the lymph system that the senator...

by James Oliphant A jury today found Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who had been dubbed the "D.C. madam" by the media, guilty of running a prostitution ring here in the nation's...

by James Oliphant Here's another sign that the economy perhaps is bottoming out. Bankruptcy filings in federal court increased 38 percent in 2007, to more than 850,000 people nationwide, the...

by James Oliphant "I'm tired of playing defense all the time," Barack Obama said Tuesday morning. "I want to play some offense." It's a line the candidate has used many...

by James Oliphant Your correspondent is sitting in a large ballroom at the Washington Hilton hotel, awaiting the arrival of Sen. Barack Obama. He will be addressing the legislative conference...