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Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards square off in the only vice presidential debate scheduled for the campaign. The face-to-face meeting underscored differences between the two on the war in Iraq and domestic policies. NPR's Tavis Smiley gets analysis from Ron Walters, professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, and Deborah Perry, president of the Choose 2 Lead Women's Foundation.

John Kerry's smile and the Bush-Cheney campaign's fearful rhetoric are among the latest targets for two of America's top political cartoonists. Mike Peters and Mike Luckovich talk with NPR's Renee Montagne about the 2004 presidential campaign.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about new information concerning Saddam Hussein's pre-war strategy and behavior revealed in a recent CIA report. The report by Charles Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons inspector, concludes the Iraqi dictator had no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and had no facilities to create nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.

Omar Wasow of Blackplanet.com and NPR's Tavis Smiley discuss how technology is helping in the aftermath of hurricanes.

Percussionist T.S. Monk talks about his new CD, Higher Ground, and a new two-disc CD/DVD package of some of his father's previously unreleased live recordings.

Stewart hosts The Daily Show on Comedy Central. The show has won an Emmy, the coveted Peabody Award, and most recently, the Television Critics Association award. He has a new book, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction.

Up to five million people ride the New York City subway on an average day. The system has 468 subway stations, most of them underground, and 3,000 conductors. NPR's Margot Adler follows conductor Sheila Taylor, who's been keeping things on track for riders for 17 years.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with political commentaors E.J. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post, and David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times. Their topics: Thursday night's presidential debates and U.S. policy in Iraq.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace about the U.S. Senate's approval of a corporate tax bill estimated to cost at least $130 billion in lost tax revenue to federal coffers.

Tuesday night in Springfield, Ill., two African-American candidates for the U.S. Senate squared off in a debate. Democrat Barack Obama leads his Republican opponent, Alan Keyes, by 45 points in the latest polls. Hear NPR's Tavis Smiley and NPR's David Schaper.