We talk with the man behind hits by Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel and Rufus Wainwright.

Democrats make history in Denver. Our news roundtable looks at how the Democrats made their case for the White House — and looks ahead to the GOP convention in St Paul.

Our coverage from Denver continues live from Invesco Field, the big stadium where Barack Obama makes his convention appeal to the nation.

Our coverage of the Democratic National Convention continues from Denver with top international journalists and a closer look at Obama on the world stage.

Our in-depth coverage continues from Denver. We’ll take a closer look at VP pick Joe Biden and what he brings to the ticket.

Our coverage continues from Denver. We’ll talk with Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and Ishmael Reed about how they’re seeing this historic moment.

Our live coverage continues from Denver. We’ll hear from Democratic convention delegates from key battleground states.

Our live coverage from Denver continues with a look at progressives versus “Blue Dog” conservatives inside the Democratic Party.

It’s opening night for the Democratic Convention. We are in Denver as the party comes together to lay out its platform.

The curtain goes up on the Democratic Convention in Denver. We’ll be there with up-to-the minute coverage and fresh perspective.

Anne of Green Gables turns 100, and looks surprisingly spry. We pay her a visit.

Veepstakes fever. Bloody days in Kabul. And Russians commandeer American Humvees in Georgia. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

A new take on the tuna — the world’s favorite fish — and why we’re in danger of loving it to death.

From the athletes, to media coverage, to China’s image, we’ll take stock of what we’ve seen in Beijing.

A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing about the lives her parents might have lived, and the truth of who they became.

Beyond the “Russian Bear” cliches. We’ll talk with an architect of NATO’s expansion, and one of the policy’s top critics, about what Russia’s invasion of Georgia really means for the West.

One man, twenty-one thousand pages. When author Ammon Shea set out to read the entire Oxford English Dictionary, it did more than enrich his vocabulary. He’ll tell us why.

Inflation accelerated in July at the fastest pace in seventeen years. We’ll look at the impact on American consumers — and the economy.

In a new book, longtime literary editor Richard Todd explores our yearning for authenticity — and that gut feeling when we know something is real.

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf is headed out. We’ll look at what it means for Pakistan, the United States, and the war on terrorism.

How humans are hard-wired to listen, dance, and perform music together, from the very first song to today.

Russia relentless as Bush stands by Georgia. Inflation hits a new high. And the campaigns gear up for the conventions. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

In a new memoir, writer Nicholas Dawidoff tells how the voices from a distant Fenway Park fueled boyhood longings.

An interpreter for Afghan detainees at Guantanamo tells the personal stories of the men she worked with. We’ll talk with her, and look at lessons from Guantanamo.

They’ve carried messages, inspired Darwin, and taken over your city. A new book tells the surprising success story of the common pigeon.

Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, but you almost never see the casualties in American newspapers. We’ll hear the debate over censorship and battlefield images.

Tunes from old Appalachia with a new bluegrass twist. A banjo, a fiddler, and a singer-guitarist from the hit folk band “Crooked Still” join us in our studio.

Is “energy independence” an impossible dream? Energy contrarian Robert Bryce says the U.S. can’t afford to kick its foreign oil habit. We’ll hear from him, and the pushback.

As Russia rolled into Georgia, and the West struggled to respond, we looked at how the conflict exploded and what’s at stake in the Caucasus.

China’s superstar pianist Lang Lang is 26 years old, and the face of a new China. He had a big role in the Olympic opening ceremonies, and he joins us from Beijing.

Crab fishermen, ice road truckers, lumberjacks — they’re busting out on cable. We talk to the man who talks to them.

The Olympics open in Beijing. U.S. veepstakes in high gear. And more losses across the economy. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

When professor Randy Pausch learned he had pancreatic cancer, he gave a life-affirming “last lecture” that became a YouTube sensation and a bestselling book…

With the Beijing Olympics set to begin, we talk with a top sports psychologist, herself a world class athlete, about what it takes.

We talk with three ex-convicts who tell the stories of their lives, in and out of prison, in a provocative new play, “The Castle.”

Ecuadorean Indians, and American trial lawyers, say Chevron is liable for a huge toxic oil dump, an “Amazon Chernobyl.” The fight reaches from a jungle courthouse to Washington, DC.

An American girl journeys back to her homeland to find a husband. We talk with Anita Jain, author of “Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India.”

The 2001 anthrax case may be drawing to a dramatic close. But plenty of questions remain about the government’s effort to counter bioterrorism. We look at the threats and the nation’s readiness.

Why do people commit suicide? In a new memoir, Joan Wickersham tries to unlock the mystery of why her own father took his life.

Hard-hit American consumers are turning to credit cards to plug their financial holes. Could the debt they’re racking up be the next shoe to drop in America’s credit crisis?

We take one last look at the backstreets of old Beijing, with an American who lived there, before the Olympics plow their memory under.

McCain’s gloves come off, a giant deficit in Washington, and the CIA goes after Pakistan. Our weekly news roundtable dives into these stories, and much more.