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Real ID is a law that requires states to meet new standards for issuing driver's licenses. President Bush signed it on Wednesday. Yesterday we heard an argument in favor of the new law. Today, Cheye Calvo argues against real ID. He thinks enforcing the law will be a burden on states. He's the transportation director of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Graco Children's Products agrees to pay a $4 million penalty for late reporting of problems with its products, including high chairs and strollers. It's the largest civil penalty issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Christopher Conkey of The Wall Street Journal talks about the fine.

A New Jersey elementary school has set up a weekly "math boot camp" for students. The "camp" is a response to the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires that the school raise test scores or face a cut in funding.

The Presidential Commission on Intelligence Thursday releases the results of its 14-month review of current and previous U.S. intelligence on various threats. The report also offers advice on how to implement intelligence reform legislation.

NPR's David Schaper reports on plans by the Chicago Catholic Archdiocese to close 23 schools in the city and surrounding suburbs at the end of this school year. The closings could displace more than 4,000 students, mostly in poor and minority neighborhoods.

The Bush administration is running into increasing resistance to altering Social Security. Republicans in Congress are beginning to feel pressure from their constituents as well. The president stumped for changes to Social Security in Iowa Wednesday.

At a camp in Burundi, former Hutu and Tutsi fighters are being urged to put their ethnic prejudices aside. Soldiers from both sides of a decades-long conflict are learning to adopt peaceful lives. Marianne McCune of member station WNYC reports.

NPR's Farai Chideya speaks with two men who have very different views about the political health and future of Zimbabwe: Geoff Nyarota, founder and editor of the independent Zimbabwean newspaper The Daily News, and Kuthula Matshazi, a political columnist for Zimbabwe's Daily Mirror.

In a ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court made it easier for older workers to sue employers for age discrimination. NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with Slate's Emily Bazelon about the decision.

In the wake of the recent arrest of an alleged accomplice in the Red Lake shootings, NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with former FBI Special Agent Frank McCrary about profiling suspects.