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Commentator Stuart Kauffman makes the working hypothesis that supracritical growth is necessary for sustained First World style economic growth. The hypothesis may be false.

The killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces marks the fulfillment of a goal that was "the highest priority" for America, says former U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte.

To talk about the reaction of the Arab world to Osama Bin Laden's death, Renee Montagne talks to Rami Khouri, an international affairs analyst at the American University of Beirut. He's also the editor-at-large of the Beirut–based Daily Star newspaper

Investment banker Richard Pecorella lost his fiancee Karen Juday in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. She worked as a secretary at the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald on the 101st floor of the North Tower. He talks to Steve Inskeep about how he got the news Osama bin Laden had been killed.

Steve Inskeep talks to political commentator Ayesha Siddiqa about the death of Osama bin Laden. She's the author of Military Inc: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy, among other books.

At a baseball game between the Mets and Phillies, chants of "USA" broke out at the top of the 9th inning as fans read the news on their smartphones. A crowd gathered outside the White House after President Obama addressed the nation. And, thousands of people came to Ground Zero in Manhattan waving American flags and singing the National Anthem.

Stephen Hadley, the principle White House foreign policy adviser to President George W. Bush, tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that Obama conducted a "well-run operation" to kill Osama bin Laden. He says that it was Bush's No. 1 priority while he was in office — and Bush "took some satisfaction" that he put things in place in the intelligence community.

If you were Osama bin Laden and you wanted to hide in plain sight at a place where no one would suspect, you might pick Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Many hope the death of Al Qaeda's Osama Bin Laden will mean a safer world, but concerns remain that his death may spur sympathizers to avenge him. Host Michel Martin discusses the new risks of a post-Bin Laden era with Clark Kent Ervin, the first inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security.

The architect of the Sept. 11 attacks was killed yesterday by U.S. forces in Pakistan. Host Michel Martin discusses the impact of the death with Rami Khouri, editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star, and Abderrahim Foukara, Washington bureau chief for Al Jazeera International..