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The Next America
It's hard to make the White House feel like a home, but President Obama has put a few personal touches on the Oval Office. A bust of Abraham Lincoln squares off...
TIME Reveals Its Shortlist for Person of the Year 2012
While TIME’s annual Person of the Year unveiling is a carefully choreographed dance with a secretive, often unpredictable result, this year TIME decided to...
Who Should Be TIME’s Person of the Year? TIME’s London Panelists Debate
A group of panelists convened in London discuss who should be 2012's Person of the Year with TIME's editors.
President Obama: Person of the Year—and Driller in Chief
President Obama promised to deal with climate change in the White House—and he's helped pump billions into renewable energy and improved energy efficiency. But...
The Hardest Choice: 2012’s Coolest Person of the Year
If you had asked my classmates in high school if they thought I would someday be in charge of picking the Coolest Person of the Year, they would have said, “You...
2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President
The campaign wasn’t pretty, and the economy worse. but he reasserted himself as a potent architect for a changing america
And the Winner of TIME’s Person of the Year Reader Poll Is…
Kim Jong Un is having a good year. After taking over the leadership of North Korea from his late father Kim Jong Il, at the end of 2011, he’s solidified his...
Take the TIME Person of the Year Quiz!
How well do you know the history of TIME's Person of the Year issue? Take the quiz and find out
Everything You Wanted to Know About TIME’s Person of the Year
Executive Editor Radhika Jones answers your questions about how the choice is made, how editors keep it a secret and why inanimate objects are eligible.
Who Should Be TIME’s 2012 Person of the Year? Our Panel Sounds Off
TIME corralled some of the top minds in politics, news and arts to determine who deserves to be 2012 Person of the Year
Recep Tayyip Erdogan: People’s Choice for TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year
He’s lauded as a steward of Islamic democracy. He’s helped boost Turkey to its place as the world’s second fastest-growing economy. Though not an Arab, he’s the...
Person of the Year
General David Petraeus Director of the CIA and former commander of the International Security Assistance Force My recommendation is Mohammed Bouazizi, the...
Morning Must Reads: Person of the Year
It’s the protester. Paul Ryan and William McRaven were both runners-up. The House passes a payroll tax cut extension linked to the Keystone XL pipeline in the...
Person of the Year.
Garry Kasparov Author, Russian political activist and former world chess champion I nominate the Arab street. The breathtaking democratic transformation that has...
Who Should Be TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year? Our Panel Sounds Off
Made up of actors, newsmen and Crocs-sporting chefs, our panel members had plenty of opinions.
Julian Assange: Readers' Choice for TIME's Person of the Year 2010
The man behind WikiLeaks has won the most votes in this year's Person of the Year poll. Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear...
2010 Person of the Year Mark Zuckerberg
On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting in the Aquarium, one of Facebook's conference rooms, so named because it's in the middle...
