Guests: Andrea Bernstein, Takeaway Political Director

Three years after leaving his home in New Orleans, Vincent Wilson wants to go back. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina had left his house in ruins and Wilson does not have the means to rebuild.

With only months left in the term, the Bush Administration is taking a hard look at the legacy they are about to leave. But President Bush’s place in history entirely depends on who you ask. Will he be remembered as the man who misled the country, squandered our savings and endorsed torture tactics? Or will he be the man who freed 60 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq, Left No Child Behind and comforted the nation after September 11? These are the questions Peter Baker put to former and current advisers to the President and to the President’s father for his upcoming piece “The Final Days” in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine.

There’s been a lot of talk about the “threatened culture” of post-Katrina New Orleans…But what does that really mean? Brass bands helped drive the city’s musical and street cultures, and are a direct measure of New Orleans’ post-Katrina health: Some are back in the city, others gone forever. The city’s youngest, professional brass band, "To Be Continued,” performed the night before Katrina swept into town and was one of the first full bands to return—no small feat since many of its members hailed from the hard-hit 9th and 7th Wards. We take a listen to their story in interviews from a just-released documentary called “From the Mouthpiece on Back.”

Takeaway contributor and Essence magazine editor Patrik Henry Bass and Takeaway convention correspondent Faith Salie take a look at the nightlife and parties in Denver during the Democratic National Convention.

Guest: Ben Calhoun, reporter for Chicago Public Radio

Britain's Foreign Minister is headed to Ukraine attempting to build a coalition against what he's called Russian aggression, referring to the Russian military incursion into in another former Soviet state, Georgia. Ukraine's president Viktor Yushchenko -- who, like Georgian leaders, wants to join NATO -- has described his country as a hostage in a war waged by Russia.

Forget Red State - Blue State politics. But don't forget that all politics is local. The Christian Science Monitor's Patchwork Nation project is redefining political geography based on social and economic data, and in the process is clarifying the issues that will matter to Americans come November.

Yesterday Russia further stoked the fire of the Georgia conflict by announcing that is was recognizing the regions of South Ossettia and Abkhazia as independent states. Next, on The Takeaway, The Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist, Edward Lucas seems to think we are looking at the beginning of a long and bumpy road.

US consumers have been paying 5.2 percent more for their food over the past year. So the BBC world service embarked upon a little global experiment to see how much consumers were being affected. Every week reporters from eight cities around the world visit the same store, buying the exact same items to compare how the price of food fluctuates over time. Richard Collings joins us with the World Service Food Price Index, next on The Takeaway

It’s day three of the DNC and we check in with they doyenne of the Democratic Party, Madeleine Albright. She’s been attending convention and we turn to her for her analysis of the events thus far and what a democratic presidency could mean for U.S. foreign policy.