Jim Oliphant

by James Oliphant In what could be a historic decision, a majority of the Supreme Court Tuesday appeared ready to embrace the view that the Second Amendment creates an individual...

by James Oliphant The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will wade into the culture wars yet again. This time by determining whether the Federal Communications Commission has the power...

by James Oliphant NEW YORK - Rachel Ehrenfeld writes about terrorism for a living. But now she is the one who feels targeted. Her modest midtown Manhattan apartment is filled...

by James Oliphant With the markets shaky, with investment houses imploding, with credit drying up and the price of energy soaring, it's hard to make sense of just what's happening...

In these images (above) released by the US Air Force, Sen. John McCain prepares to take off in a U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk from Sather Air Base, Iraq, Sunday, March...

by James Oliphant Remember when people said Barack Obama transcended race? It seems like a long time ago. (They may have been the same people who said the housing bubble...

by James Oliphant Former Saturday Night Live cast member Tracy Morgan returned to his old show last night to offer a blistering (and funny) response to Geraldine Ferraro's comments about...

David Broder (L), Michel Norris (2L), of NPR, of the Washington Post, and David Gregory (2R), of NBC, listen to Tim Russert (R) ask a question during a live taping...

by James Oliphant The Hillary Clinton campaign has its fourth-quarter strategy lined up. Saturday, in a state-of-the-race conference call, campaign officials spoke elliptically about the road ahead, but it was...

by James Oliphant It's a shooting war, for certain. Democrats versus Republicans, cities versus states, cops versus cops, scholars versus scholars, and most bizarrely, the Bush administration against itself. The...