The cover story of the current Mother Jones magazine is a 13-year timeline of how George Bush and his cronies lied to get us into Iraq. We talk to its authors, Jonathan Stein and Tim Dickinson. Dickinson explains why a detailed, comprehensive timeline helps us grasp the whole picture of what really happened. "Newspaper reports are referred to as the first drafts of history, and in this case they came in in a fragmentary nature, and also tragically out of date," he says. "What we really wanted to try to do was put these puzzle pieces together so that you could see precisely what was known at the time." The resulting timelines helps us understand "how it is that we missed some of these red flags, but also to understand what was going on behind closed doors of the administration."

Plus, McKenzie Funk tells us the story of one falsely accused "enemy combatant" who spent almost two years at Guantanamo. Funk tells us how a young man selling pencils on the streets of Peshawar found himself bound, gagged, and on a plane to Cuba. Funk tells us about the detainee's worst week at Guantanamo. "They put him in what he calls the 'metal box'," says Funk. "It was a small metal box with some sort of metal coil in the roof...it was completely sealed. There was a plexiglass window. So by night, they would pump in cold air, and he was completely naked actually, and was just sitting there shivering. So he would shiver at night, and by day the coil would come on, and it would get incredibly hot."

Finally, the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has passed, and all the news crews have packed up and gone home. But what is life like for the survivors who have to live in New Orleans year-round? We check in with Chris Kromm, director of the Institute for Southern Studies, and Tracie Washington, director of the Gulf Coast Advocacy Center.

Web bonus: Click here for the extended version of our interview with McKenzie Funk.