Caroline Kennedy Asks to Be Time’s Person of the Year

Satire by Andy Borowitz Dec 22, 2008 Caroline Kennedy would like to be considered Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2009 and has let the magazine's editor know of her interest in the honor, aides to Ms. Kennedy confirmed this week. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Time Magazine Reveals Completely Unsurprising Award Choice

Staff / Truthdig Dec 18, 2008 Here's a news bite that could have written itself a few weeks, if not months, ago: Barack Obama is Time's 2008 Person of the Year. Even the magazine's editorial staff members knew that the choice would hardly shock anyone, but they allowed themselves to be swept along by the tides of history -- or perhaps inevitability. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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 )

Mark Halperin Labels Election Coverage ‘Disgusting’

Staff / Truthdig Nov 25, 2008 Time's veteran political reporter calls coverage of the 2008 election, during both the primary and general election, "the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war" because of "extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Joe Klein on the ‘Flagrantly Dreadful’ Joe Lieberman

Staff / Truthdig Nov 7, 2008 Time's political sage offers the thorniest of olive branches to the Connecticut senator, who, he writes, "has been a flagrantly dreadful public figure these past two years." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Timeline: The Global Credit Crisis

Staff / Truthdig Oct 6, 2008 To help all those still reeling from sudden onset econo-tastrophe syndrome, the BBC has put together a handy timeline, which connects the dots between events over the last couple years but doesn't quite take the long view, thus leaving out a few key moments and players from, say, the 1990s (paging Phil Gramm). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McCain Aide: Palin Doesn’t Need to Talk to the Press

Staff / Truthdig Sep 7, 2008 According to McCain campaign strategist Nicole Wallace, it doesn't matter if Sarah Palin talks to the press because Palin can make "her own points" in her speeches, directly to the American people, as she did in St. Paul last week. "Who cares if she can talk to Time magazine?" Wallace asks Jay Carney of, yes, Time magazine in this clip. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McCain’s Attention Deficit

Staff / Truthdig Apr 30, 2008 While the spotlight is starting to singe the Democrats, it's true that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have gotten heaping doses of attention compared with the supposed media darling, John McCain. Here's one indication: The covers of Time and Newsweek have featured the face of an Obama or a Clinton eight times since Super Tuesday. 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 )

Jenna Bush Dodges Military Service Question

Staff / Truthdig Oct 11, 2007 How does the Bush family, including First Twin Jenna Bush, handle all the critical media coverage about George W? According to Jenna, they "don't watch too much television" And, when asked by Time reporter Carolyn Sayre why she isn't serving in Iraq, she insisted, " It's not even a practical question" Oh. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gonzales Wobbles, but He Won’t Fall Down

Staff / Truthdig Aug 4, 2007 As Republicans' fealty flags and suspicions multiply about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' trustworthiness, what could possibly be preventing Gonzales from losing his job? Here are a couple of educated guesses from Time's Massimo Calabresi. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

War Strategy a Flop? Transform(er) It

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig Jul 21, 2007 In the public's frustration with the Iraq war Borowitz finds satire, reporting that George W. Bush has proposed enlisting the Transformers to help move things along. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )