--- --- Back to the vault # December 15, 2014 | Vol. 184 No. 23December 15, 2014 | Vol. 184 No. 23  Issue name December 15th, 2014 | Vol. 184, No. 23 | U.S. Issue date December 15, 2014 Location U.S. Related categories [Society](/vault/subject/society/) [Technology](/vault/subject/technology/) [Browse issue pages](/vault/issue/2014-12-15/page/1/)[Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.WorldOthers ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### The Man Who Wired the World Mark Zuckerberg’s crusade to put every single human being online [Business](/section/business/) ### In The Latest Issue (4 Dec 2014) [Business](/section/business/) ### The Air Bag Blowout Air bags are meant to save lives. Now a massive recall shows how they can turn deadly ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Charli XCX Rages Against the Pop Machine Her new album “Sucker” arrives Dec. 15 [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Hollywood’s Season for Women Finally, complex females flourish on both sides of the camera [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Alton Brown’s Existential Stew The touring TV chef hunts down the recipe for joy [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Review: The Painfully Funny _Becoming Richard Pryor_ How his radical voice sought shape amid chaos [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Ian Rankin Remembers P.D. James “Her scalpel-like intellect cut through cant and unearned privilege” [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Mike Nichols’s Serious Showmanship Remembering the legendary director ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Burned Books in the Holy Land Jewish and Arab parents watch as Israel’s hopes for peace fade [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Ferguson Was the Spark — Eric Garner Is the Fire Are we trying to create a world devoid of any racist bias, or are we trying to stop cops from shooting black men? ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Eric Holder Seizes the Ferguson Moment The Attorney General goes on the road ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### 10 Questions With Yao Ming The retired NBA star wants everyone to stop buying ivory—and wishes he’d shot more 3s ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Crisis on Fraternity Row A scandal at the University of Virginia raises new concerns about the role of Greek life in college sexual assaults ### World [World](/section/world/) ### Russia's Fifth Column Vladimir Putin is stirring up Russian speakers in Eastern Europe—and using them to expand Moscow’s influence [World](/section/world/) ### The Culture (4 Dec 2014) [World](/section/world/) ### Pop Chart (4 Dec 2014) [World](/section/world/) ### Briefing (4 Dec 2014) [World](/section/world/) ### The Great American Calorie Crackdown Why some nutrition facts are getting harder to ignore [World](/section/world/) ### Milestones (4 Dec 2014) [World](/section/world/) ### Ashton Carter Obama's latest Pentagon boss [World](/section/world/) ### What You Said About ... (4 Dec 2014) [World](/section/world/) ### World (4 Dec 2014) ### Others [Home Improvement for the HolidaysThe togetherness is bliss. But I need an antidote for all the stuff that comes with it ](/3617668/home-improvement-for-the-holidays/) December 15th, 2014 | Vol. 184, No. 23 | U.S. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"December 15th, 2014 | Vol. 184, No. 23 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/3617654/december-15th-2014-vol-184-no-23-u-s/"}]}]} ```