December 1-8, 2014 Issue

Cover art by: illustration by Ryan Inzana

Feature

Democrats: The Party of Pablum

How else can we explain voters who chose Mitch McConnell senators and Elizabeth Warren policies?

John Nichols
Shrinking the Vote

Voters in fourteen states faced new restrictions, and in several races, disenfranchised voters could have changed the outcome.

Ari Berman
The GOP Senate: Worry!

From blocking nominees to launching pointless investigations to deregulating everything, the new Senate is poised to wreak havoc.
George Zornick
How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul

The trouble started when the party abandoned its working-class base.

William Greider
The Truth About Anonymous’s Activism

A look behind the mask reveals a naïve techno-utopianism.
Adrian Chen

Editorial

Why You Shouldn’t Marry for Money

Conservatives’ silver bullet is a joke.
Bryce Covert
Obama Tells the FCC to ‘Implement the Strongest Possible Rules to Protect Net Neutrality’

The president calls for the reclassification of Internet services under telecommunications in the name of an open Internet.
John Nichols
The Worst Metaphors Politicians Have Used to Describe the Internet

Is it a series of tubes or a Coke bottle?

Naomi Gordon-Loebl
Will Republican Know-Nothings Torpedo Climate Progress?

Obama’s postponement of Keystone XL, EPA emissions regulations and now the China deal are in jeopardy.
Mark Hertsgaard
Comix Nation

Matt Bors
Snapshot: Million Mask March

Bernadett Szabo
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Column

Midterm Media Meltdown

The election results reflect a complex reality; the press prefers simple narratives.

Eric Alterman
The Value of Whiteness

A lawsuit is being waged against the “wrongful birth” of a black child.
Patricia J. Williams
Obstacles Limit Targets and Pace of Strikes on ISIS

—Headline, The New York Times

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Grim Reapers

Drones have taken on a life of their own in popular culture.
Jenna Krajeski
From the Dirty Silences

Must art confront ugly realities with an ugliness of its own?

Barry Schwabsky
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Ishion Hutchinson
No Fate but Entropy

Swagger and survival in Foxcatcher and Red Army

Stuart Klawans
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