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Playing it straight

Jonathan Barnett (USC): What’s so Bad About Stealing? The source of our abortion woes: Most think that Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld abortion rights, but it actually cleared the way for curbing them. What if we can imagine the end of infrastructure? An interview with Christopher Marcinkoski. It might seem quixotic for the International Criminal Court to indict Libya's unrepentant leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi, but the call for justice can have a pragmatic effect too. What happened to Air France Flight 447? Two years after it fell out of the sky, the main part of the wreckage has been located at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, but will the mystery of the crash ever be solved? May 21: The Rapture meets Maud Newton's 40th Birthday. Bin Laden's "successor": Who is Saif al-Adel? The philosophy of insomnia: Hegel wrote in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right that the owl of Minerva flies only at night — it hoots at insomniacs. Magazine icon Roger Black: The iPad is not a magic pony. The Bin Laden compound is now a virtual training ground for commandos. GeoCurrents looks at the extreme disparities of state revenue. Unfollowed: Spencer Ackerman on how a (possible) social network spy came undone. Is this the real NAFTA Superhighway? A planned pipeline connecting Canada to Texas could pose a real threat, unlike the mythological NAFTA Superhighway. A review of The Fight of Our Lives: Knowing the Enemy, Speaking the Truth and Choosing to Win the War Against Radical Islam by William J. Bennett and Seth Leibsohn. Playing it straight: Jamie Lee Curtis Taete on a month of giving up everything gay. Hollywood in Iraq: As the war continued into its fifth and sixth years, an increasing number of films began to deal with the GIs who served in Iraq (less so Afghanistan).