Does Caroline Kennedy have the right DNA and experience to replace Hillary? Is Obama's choice of Rick Warren another example of the President-Elect giving conservatives the visual while later giving progressives the policy?

How soon before the headline, "GOP to Detroit: Drop Dead?" While Republicans throw $700 billion to Wall Street but complain about a $14 billion loan for blue collar workers, Bob Kuttner explains why this should be a transforming economic and political moment for Obama.

45 days and counting... So while we have two presidents--or none, per Barney Frank's joke--Berger, Huffington, and Conason discuss the Clinton/Gates appointments, what they mean for actual policy, as well as whether the Big Three
might become the Big One and whether Rove can tarnish Obama's mandate.

This time "the whole world was watching" was literally true...and they were waving flags not fingers. Our A+ panel discusses why -- W's uniting influence, O's bottom-up campaign, McCain's dishonort.

Two Democrats succeed two conservative Republicans during economic crises. How parallel actually are Roosevelt's and now Obama's transitions?

7 Days Interview with Jonathan Alter, author of The Defining Moment, Nov. 16, 2008