The Obama administration wants to rewrite No Child Left Behind. We’ll ask what’s coming for American education.

Think tanks in Washington are playing out the scenarios of an Israeli attack on Iran. We’ll look at the tough results they’ve found.

The military’s bomb squads that defuse I.E.D.’s in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’ll look at their job, their technology, and the risks they take.

The President pushes for a final vote on health care. Chile digs out. And top Democrats — Rangel, Paterson — in ethics trouble. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

U.S. Ambassaor to Iraq Christopher Hill spoke with On Point live from Baghdad today as early voting gets underway, part of the run-up to Sunday’s elections. “So far so good,” Hill said, despite scattered violence. Hill said that the plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops by Sept. 1, and to leave only a residual advisory force of 50,000 or fewer, remains “very much on schedule.” Observers worry that a spike in violence could derail that timeline.

President Obama wants to block big health insurance rate increases and to hash it out with the GOP. We’ll look at the new battle lines in the healthcare debate.

The White House offers billions to help build America’s first new nuclear power plant in more than three decades — and revive the industry. We’ll look at the pro’s, the con’s, and the politics.

A big allied offensive in southern Afghanistan. A new U.S. strategy on the line. And the top Afghan Taliban commander captured in Pakistan.

We look at Haiti’s children, and how the young, the orphaned, the most vulnerable, are doing in the long struggle to recover.

Iran’s new nuclear push. Debt shakes the market. And “snowpocalypse” in Washington. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

New Orleans has a Super Bowl victory and a brand new incoming mayor. But how’s the city really doing? We’ll check in.

Toyota turmoil. Big bonus plans. And the Joint Chiefs Chairman takes a stand on gay rights. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

The State of the Union. A huge Toyota recall. Geithner gets grilled. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

The President speaks, in his State of the Union address. We’ll get reaction from progressive blogger Jane Hamsher, conservative Pat Buchanan, and you.

Vanguard founder John Bogle took on Wall Street and endorsed the “Volcker Rule” reforms put forward by President Obama. Here’s what he had to say, along with his exchange with Steve Bartlett of the Financial Services Roundtable.

President Obama’s tough new talk on banks sent markets down. Does it mean a real fix to the system? We’ll look at the White House and the banks.

One year after Barack Obama’s inauguration, the loss of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat has stunned Democrats. We look at the president, his party, and his agenda now.

On Martin Luther King Day, African Americans speak on race and what’s changed in the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency.

The “Tea Party” movement is shaking up the GOP and big chunks of the country. We talk with Tea Partiers about where they go from here.

The firm formerly known as Blackwater is front and center again in Iraq — and Afghanistan. We ask why US forces are still entwined with the contractor.