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Commentator John McWhorter responds to last night's commentary by Joe Davidson. McWhorter thinks that President Bush was right in not accepting the NAACP's invitation to its annual national convention. McWhorter thinks the NAACP is obsolete.

The House passes legislation requiring food manufacturers to list common food allergens in plain English on their labels, a move already approved in the Senate. Some allergens, such as peanuts, can cause fatal reactions. President Bush is expected to sign the bill into law soon. Hear NPR's Julie Rovner.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews the new Matt Damon movie The Bourne Supremacy. It's a sequel to the 2002 hit The Bourne Identity, shot in a fast-paced style that heightens the tension of the storyline.

The great apes of Africa and Asia have long been threatened by hunters, loggers and farmers. But scientists say another threat is rising fast: infectious diseases carried or spread by humans and livestock. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

In a series of commentaries for All Things Considered, writer David Lipsky explores the four West Point values of honor, character, duty and country.

The Sept. 11 commission's final report suggests changes to U.S. foreign policy, particularly with regard to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, aimed at trying to win what it calls the war of ideas in the Islamic world. But it avoids controversial elements of the Bush administration's Iraq policy. Hear NPR's Michele Kelemen.

Singer-songwriter Joseph "Amp" Fiddler's debut CD, Waltz of a Ghetto Fly, is a fusion of classic Detroit soul and modern electronic funk. Day to Day producer Christopher Johnson talks with Fiddler.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Sasha Baron Cohen -- aka Ali G, host of Da Ali G Show on HBO. Cohen, in the character of a Cockney-accented, dim-witted wannabe "wiseguy," regularly fools government officials and other interview subjects who believe he's a popular but unorthodox British "hip-hop journalist."

Weekend Edition film music commentator Andy Trudeau speaks with NPR's Liane Hansen about the life's work of composer Jerry Goldsmith, who died this past Wednesday at the age of 75. Though he created hundreds of film scores and won an Oscar, Goldsmith never achieved the fame of some of his peers.

A new report says the increasing death toll from the mosquito-borne disease can be reversed through international support of a new drug based on a Chinese herbal treatment. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.