
Print Magazine
December 1-8, 2014 Issue
Cover art by: illustration by Ryan Inzana
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Editorial



The Worst Metaphors Politicians Have Used to Describe the Internet
Is it a series of tubes or a Coke bottle?



Column

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

Letters
Letters
Got it covered… block that vote!… Berman replies… smarter than yeast?… the rich shall inherit… climate poem for Naomi…
Feature

Democrats: The Party of Pablum
How else can we explain voters who chose Mitch McConnell senators and Elizabeth Warren policies?

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


How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul
The trouble started when the party abandoned its working-class base.

Books & the Arts


From the Dirty Silences
Must art confront ugly realities with an ugliness of its own?
