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NPR's Ron Elving and Ken Rudin discuss highlights of the Republican National Convention — the speeches, the delegates, and what it all means for this year's election. In other news, Rep. Ben Quayle loses the GOP congressional primary in Arizona. Does that signal the end of his political career?

In an election that's supposed to be about the economy, tragic deaths overseas push foreign policy onto the political stage in the race between Mitt Romney and President Obama. While Romney seems to have lost the initial battle, questions remain about the administration's Middle East goals.

It was another notable week in state politics, as the U.S. Supreme Court issued opinions in two cases out of North Carolina.

Political cartoonists Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Mike Peters of the Dayton Daily News discuss 2005, as seen through the prism of their own work.

After January's elections in Iraq, the interim government is starting to form. Barham Salih, a Kurdish member of parliament, discusses the behind-the-scenes political wheeling and dealing of the provisional government.

Is the summer ending on a politically damaging down note for President Biden?

Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers has made waves with a broader TV audience this election season, as the show expands its political parodies to Thursday prime time.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews a reissued book called Visa for Avalon by Bryher, the pen name of an Englishwoman named Annie Winifred Ellerman. Visa for Avalon is a political allegory first published in 1965.

The groups' presence can aggravate and even scare protesters. But the militia members themselves say they are misunderstood.

A month-long political strike cripples Venezuela's petroleum industry, forcing the country to import gas for the first time in decades. The strike is an attempt to force President Hugo Chavez from power. NPR's Martin Kaste reports.