Todd Gitlin on eight questions reporters should ask Clinton. Clinton or Obama? Why not both? Googling the New York Times: What would you get if the powerful internet company bought America's leading newspaper? A review of Walter Benjamin: The Archive; and Walter Benjamin by Esther Leslie. A cutting tradition: Inside a female-circumcision ceremony for young Muslim girls. "24" is going green?! Checking in on the hit show's most unlikely mission yet. An excerpt from Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television by Tamara Chaplin. A review of Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman by James A. Steintrager. From Seed, to answer our most fundamental questions, science needs to find a place for the arts; and will new revelations about RNA force us to rethink how our past affects

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