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.

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.

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.

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’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.

Bailout maneuvers, market swings. Palin versus Biden. And Obama inches up in the polls. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Sarah Palin prepares for Joe Biden and her first national debate. It’s been one month since she stepped onto the national stage. We take stock.

The presidential election and the U.S. Supreme Court. Top legal thinkers on what an Obama Court or a McCain Court would mean for the country.

Five weeks to Election Day. We’ll look at the Obama and McCain campaigns and strategies, in the midst of crisis.

Former Bush Treasury official John Taylor, now advising McCain, and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, now advising Obama, on the way out of this financial crisis.

Forget lipstick. We’re talking issues. This time: education, and what Barack Obama and John McCain would offer the country at school.

John McCain’s moment. Sarah Palin’s national debut. The GOP’s message. Who’s got momentum now? Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Our live coverage continues from the GOP Convention. We’ll be there as McCain prepares to step up for his big speech to the nation.

Our live coverage from St. Paul continues. We’ll dig into John McCain’s biography, POW and beyond, for clues as to what kind of president he might be.