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# December 29, 2014 | Vol. 184 No. 26 December 29, 2014 |  

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December 29, 2014

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthPoliticsScienceU.S.WorldOthers

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### What Sony’s Hackers Know

In cyberwar, information is a weapon--and our culture is the battlefield

[Business](/section/business/)

### No Company Is Immune to a Hack Like Sony’s

Why no company is immune

[Business](/section/business/)

### Will Virtual Reality Finally Go Mainstream?

[Business](/section/business/)

### Here's What Silicon Valley Sees Happening in 2015

Silicon Valley's top investors predict a big year for bitcoin, extruded gastronomy and me

[Business](/section/business/)

### Badge, Gun ... Camera?

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Building An 'Empire'

Lee Daniels and Danny Strong—the team behind <em>The Butler</em>—launch a Shakespearean hip-hop drama for prime-time TV

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Meet Larry Wilmore, Your New Fake News Host

Comedy Central’s new guy has a few tricks up his sleeve

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Medicine Is About to Get Personal

How can Americans get better health care for less money? There's a quiet experiment going on among primary-care physicians, and the results are intriguing

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Jeb Bush, Mr. Sunshine

He’s been out of politics for nearly a decade, but he thinks he knows how to fix the country 

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Hillary Clinton, Up, Up and Away

Hillary Clinton prepares a 2016 campaign on promises of upward mobility for the middle class

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### In the Latest Issue (22 Dec 2014)

### U.S.

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### After the Altar

The next frontier for lgbt rights is equal treatment at home, work and in the public square

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### Pot's Candy Crisis

Edibles are throwing a wrench in the legal-weed movement

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Cuba Libre

After more than 50 years, the U.S. looks to a future 90 miles away

[World](/section/world/)

### World (22 Dec 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Milestones (22 Dec 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### Supremes Watch

From Obamacare to religious freedom, several charged issues will make their way back to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015\. By the time the term ends this summer, we could have a definitive ruling on whether Chief Justice John Roberts' court is the conservative juggernaut many believe it to be.

[World](/section/world/)

### New Year, New Adventures

Top destinations for travelers of every kind--from art enthusiasts to history buffs

[World](/section/world/)

### Water World

A massive Middle Eastern desalination plant could show how to quench a crowded planet's growing thirst

[World](/section/world/)

### Can a Risqué Novel Go Mainstream?

[World](/section/world/)

### A Spare Heir

Sorry, George, there's a new royal in town

[World](/section/world/)

### Briefing (22 Dec 2014)

[World](/section/world/)

### The Journey Ahead

[World](/section/world/)

### The Future is Now

The lone hope of an otherwise lost season (ask Astros fans) comes from new prospects. Here's who's due to emerge in 2015.

[World](/section/world/)

### Drone Country: See America From Above

Affordable drones are giving us a new—perhaps temporary—vantage on the world

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