Congress makes a deal on the stimulus. Bankers take the hot seat. The Taliban shoots up the Afghan capital. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Rebuilding the U.S. economy. We’ll get recipes from super-capitalist and Vanguard founder John Bogle and progressive economist Jared Bernstein.

We look at the long-checkered history of financial rescues and bailouts — and what they’ve meant for the U.S. economy.

When Wall Street giant Bear Stearns was on the ropes last month, it took the federal government less than two days to leap in and guarantee a bailout for a bank with a reputation for playing fast and loose in the markets.
With millions of homeowners around the country up against foreclosure and millions of homes [...]