It’s more than a month until Inauguration Day, but the U.S. capital is buzzing — and bracing for an event of epic proportions. We’ll check in on what’s coming on Inauguration Day.

An historic election. Obama shapes a team. And America grapples with a whole new political map. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

The Republican Party rethinks. We talk with conservative thinkers about the GOP’s Election Day thrashing, and where the party goes from here.

American historians David Kennedy and Nell Irvin Painter discuss the weight of the 2008 election.

We’ll have all the news, numbers, and analysis of a historic election day.

We’ve heard a lot about change in the presidential campaign. On the eve of the election, we’ll ask big thinkers on American politics about the kind of change Barack Obama or John McCain might bring.

Countdown to Election Day. Obama buys prime time. McCain is running out of time. Our weekly roundtable goes behind the headlines.

It’s a fight to the finish for campaign ‘08. We’ll touch down in key battleground states where everything’s on the line for John McCain and Barack Obama.

The last big issue: America’s wars. With one week to election day, we’ll look at McCain and Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan.

The right attacks ACORN and its voter registration drives. Now Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the real issue is widespread vote suppression. We’ll hear the debate.

Alan Greenspan faces history. Obama flies to an ailing grandmother. McCain fights on. Markets shudder. Our weekly roundtable goes behind the headlines.

The ‘08 election on campus. We’ll hear from college newspaper editors on how their readers see the presidential contest.

Taxes, spending, and the huge federal deficit. We’ll dig deep into the McCain and Obama plans, and what they could mean for the country’s bottom line.

A filibuster-proof majority for Senate Democrats? It’s possible. We’ll look at key Senate races, and what a Democratic “supermajority” might mean for the country.

Wild swings and no rest for the markets. Tough punches on the campaign trail. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

We look at the McCain and Obama visions on the giant issues of energy and the environment.

Obama is surging, and John McCain has three weeks, and one last debate, to turn the race around. We’ll look at the state of the McCain campaign, what hasn’t worked — and what still might.

We talk with ordinary Americans about how the new economic realities are hitting their jobs, businesses, and lives.

We’ll talk with the top advisors to Obama and McCain on the number one issue in the world — the economy, and how to save it.

McCain and Obama appeal to the undecided. We’ll score their second debate as they enter the campaign home stretch.