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Obama of the Year

Staff / Truthdig Dec 17, 2008 Joining the ranks of you, Kenneth Starr and the computer, Barack Obama has, not surprisingly, achieved the most prestigious superlative in history's magazine of choice: Time's "Person of the Year." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Putin Is Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

Staff / Truthdig Dec 20, 2007 Time magazine has decided to celebrate "order before freedom," as the newsweekly put it, with its "person of the year" selection, because "if Russia succeeds as a nation-state in the family of nations, it will owe much of that success to one man, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Eye of the Beholder

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Dec 24, 2006 Dig deeper

Congratulations, You Won

Staff / Truthdig Dec 18, 2006 Time announced its "person of the year" on Saturday, dissing everyone from Ahmadinejad to Pelosi in order to declare "you" the winner. Don't you feel special? Specifically, the magazine highlighted websites including YouTube, Wikipedia and MySpace for "bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )