Novelist Joseph O’Neill’s award-winning novel, “Netherland,” has been on the president’s nightstand. We talk with O’Neill, and with writer James McBride, about its themes of American identity.

President Obama, in Cairo, addresses the Muslim world. We hear excerpts, and get reaction from the Middle East.

Democrats defy Obama on Guantanamo. The president speaks. Detroit emissions get a haircut. Iran tests a missile. It’s the weekly news roundtable.

We’ll hear the speech and the controversy over abortion, the president, and Catholicism.

Obama at a hundred days. We’ll take stock and go deep with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and conservative thinker Pat Buchanan.

Hot words on the airwaves. Gun sales up. We’ll take a hard look at an “angry America” in the age of Obama and economic bust.

President Obama speaks in Turkey, and reaches out to the Muslim world. We’ll hear reactions from across the region.

President Obama has announced his plan to end, he says, the war in Iraq – as he turns hard to Afghanistan. We’ll ask leading anti-war critics how they see Obama on war.

Are happy days here again for liberals? We’ll talk with political scientist Alan Wolfe about the meaning – and future – of liberalism in the Obama era.

The president lays out his agenda to Congress and the nation. We’ll hear reaction from Republicans and Democrats on the partisan front lines.

Abraham Lincoln at 200. We’ll look back on his presidential leadership style during crisis — with Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian James McPherson.

President Obama’s first full-dress press conference. The economy and banking bailout front and center. We’ll look at the recipe for recovery.

President Obama. The oath is taken. Now comes the governing. We’ll look at what’s ahead in the first 100 days.

Special 7pm Broadcast: Our in-depth coverage from Washington continues with perspectives on Obama’s speech, and all the buzz and celebration around the nation’s capital.

Inauguration Day. Barack Obama takes the oath as president. We’ll have all the latest news, analysis and excitement from the nation’s capital.

Barack Obama’s nearly $800 billion stimulus package outline is now front and center in Washington. What’s in it? And can it save the economy?

On January 1st, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Historian Edna Greene Medford explains what it meant for African Americans, and how it resonates in the era of Obama.

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.

In his weekly address on Saturday, President-elect Obama outlined a huge public-works program – the biggest investment in the nation’s infrastructure since the creation of the interstate highway system under Eisenhower.

Obama’s national security team goes bipartisan. Will his policy? We’ll ask top analysts what kind of defense the country really needs.