Critical Data

More details are emerging about the death of Osama bin Laden. Karen Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU, talks about how interrogation may have led to critical information. Plus: Julian Assange’s attorney, Mark Stephens, talks about the effects of Wikileaks on transparency and foreign policy; Jill Lepore of The New Yorker connects American history and the present; SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher on funding the state’s public university system; the carbon footprint of everything, including bananas.