Selections from the December 1, 2014 issue

COVER/Robert Creamer
GOP faces tougher battle ground in 2016

EDITORIAL
Dems need populist pitch; Obama go for broke

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Muhammad Ali is dying ... again

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Know your turkey’s people

DISPATCHES
Congress will attack Obama accomplishments;
GOP aimed to purge millions of voters;
Cesca: No such thing as ‘war on whistleblowers’;
Climate scientists warn of ‘irreversible impact’;
Yanks go to college free overseas;
Obama's approval rating remained unchanged, despite media reports;
Dem voters like Clinton, GOP voters like Huckabee, Bush, Paul and Perry ...

BOB BURNETT
What do millennials want?

JOHN YOUNG
Let’s all get scared. America

JIM GOODMAN
New seeds, old pesticides

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Playing gotcha: The medical version

SAM URETSKY
Rational science vs. paranoia

WAYNE O’LEARY
The ghost of Billy Mitchell

JOHN BUELL
Is tepid growth the new norm?

MARK ANDERSON
Business visa scandal embroils S.D. senate race

BILL JOHNSTON 

Veterans Day 2014

ROB PATTERSON
When you engage trolls, expect flung feces

POPULIST PICKS
‘8 men out’; ‘Mao Tse Tung said’; ‘Leftovers’

JASON STANFORD 

GOP freaks out over Ebola and gay backrubs

and more ...