The Year in Covers

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‘@TIME shamelessly panders to the “my mom” demographic.’

SETH MEYERS, via Twitter, on “The Year Ahead” issue (Jan. 13)

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‘The Cancellator! I am going to cancel you. Right now!’

AL ROKER, on the airlines’ computer-generated cancellation algorithm TIME revealed in “Airport Confidential” (March 3)

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‘Best part of this is the White House CTO driving around a van, assembling folks A-Team style, to fix HealthCare.gov.’

JIM RAY, a coder, via Twitter, on “Code Red” (March 10)

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‘You don’t want to be a school that mishandles rape. Step up. It’s time.’

JOE BIDEN, in a companion piece to “Rape: The Crisis in Higher Education” (May 26)

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‘Time is the new black.’

US WEEKLY, on “The Transgender Tipping Point” cover, which featured Orange Is the New Black’s Laverne Cox (June 9)

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‘Bullies don’t understand subtle actions like sanctions.’

JAMES MCINTYRE of Streetsboro, Ohio, on Russian President Vladimir Putin as described in “Cold War II” (Aug. 4)

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‘It’s good that Barra has made it her goal to clean up her company, but talk is cheap.’

TIM SEXTON of Peoria, Ariz., on “The Mechanic,” General Motors CEO Mary Barra (Oct. 6)

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‘Tenure is not a job for life. It’s ensuring fairness and due process before someone can be fired.’

RANDI WEINGARTEN, president of the American Federation of Teachers, on “Rotten Apples” (Nov. 3)

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‘Real change would require … not spending the next two years trying to undo the last six.’

BYRON SMITH of Plainfield, N.J., on the Mitch McConnell “Change” cover (Nov. 17)

‘If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some dollars in your hair.’

ROBERTO CHAVEZ of Arvada, Colo., suggesting that the “flowers” line in the famous Scott McKenzie song “San Francisco” be updated to reflect the Bay Area’s tech-wealth-driven transformation, as explored in “Disrupted” (Feb. 10)

‘Raise the minimum wage and everything else will increase accordingly.’

Retired teacher MARGE DEIBEL of Mount Pleasant, Mich., on TIME’s profile of brash wage-hike opponent and former lobbyist Richard Berman (March 10)

‘Glad someone of his distinction is speaking out.’

DINA SCHMIDT, teacher from Chester Springs, Pa., on an essay by Bard College president Leon Botstein criticizing the SAT as “part hoax, part fraud” (March 24)

‘People used to go bankrupt when they had a major medical emergency. Now they’ll spend up to 27% of their income. To me, that sounds quite a bit more … affordable.’

R. PHILIP GRIZZARD of Normal, Ill., defending the Affordable Care Act in response to Steven Brill’s “The Hidden Cliffs in Obamacare” (June 9), which highlighted little-known inequities in the ACA

‘Finally, Harley-Davidson got its corporate head out of its tailpipe.’

ALLEN STANKO of San Diego, on TIME’s June 30 feature on the motorcycle giant’s new electric bike

‘They are designed to teach critical-thinking skills based in logic and fact.’

LINDA ARADON, third-grade teacher in Santa Cruz, Calif., defending the need for core-curriculum standards, as explored in “Core Crash” (Aug. 25)

‘Where are the mass demonstrations? Where is the outrage?’

PETER PAUL of Surry, Va., on “Life After War” (Nov. 17), which profiles Iraq and Afghanistan veterans at home and during their recovery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

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