What You Said About …

Donald Trump

Readers had what the GOP candidate might call a “huge” response to Michael Scherer’s Aug. 31 cover story about Trump’s place in the 2016 presidential race. “Is he plausible?” Chris Matthews asked Scherer on MSNBC. Scherer’s view–“He’d have to change a lot of minds”–was not uncommon. Don Walker of Pittsburgh wrote that Trump’s popularity was fleeting, a message from voters “sick of tired talking points … when they’d like a candidate to stand up and give plain answers in plain English.” “Sideshows may be fun,” added Steve Campbell of Burbank, Calif., “but they shouldn’t serve as a substitute for rolling up your sleeves and really getting involved in a meaningful way.” Angrier readers decried what they saw as Trump’s “bullying” and “xenophobic” remarks, with Stacey Stathulis of Westerville, Ohio, responding to the cover’s headline: “Deal with what, exactly? That he has given voice to the ugliest side of America?”

One element of the story, however, caused little argument: photographer Martin Schoeller’s images of Trump posing in his gleaming Manhattan office with Uncle Sam, a 27-year-old bald eagle, which were featured on several morning and late-night talk shows. On Twitter, Vox.com’s Ezra Klein praised TIME for wrangling “the Donald Trumpiest photo shoot ever.”

BACK IN TIME

Stephen Colbert joins a long line of late-night hosts who have made news on the cover of TIME, from the days when Carson was the “Midnight Idol” to Letterman’s time in “the most frenzied battle for late-night viewers in TV history.” For more on TIME’s cover shoot with Colbert (above with photographer Platon), visit lightbox.time.com.

JACK PAAR

(Aug. 18, 1958)

JOHNNY CARSON

(May 19, 1967)

DICK CAVETT

(June 7, 1971)

ARSENIO HALL

(Nov. 13, 1989)

JAY LENO

(March 16, 1992)

DAVID LETTERMAN

(Aug. 30, 1993)

Katrina, in hindsight

On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana with winds of up to 125 m.p.h., causing an unprecedented storm surge and catastrophic floods that would forever change the area’s social fabric. The photographs that came out of New Orleans in the days, weeks and months that followed helped remind the world how vulnerable we are to large-scale disaster, even in the major cities of modern America. To commemorate Katrina’s 10-year anniversary, TIME asked 14 of the people who were taking those photos to tell us about the ones that moved them most. Here, a sampling of the perspectives we’ve gathered at time.com/katrina-photos.

Mario Tama, who shot this photo in New Orleans on Aug. 31, 2005, later went on to document the hurricane’s aftermath. “This picture represents to me not just what I witnessed that day,” he says, “but also what I came to know about the community of folks coming back to their homes, back to their roots, which run deep in New Orleans.”

Joachim Ladefoged chose an image of a destroyed home in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans (left), which he shot in 2006, because it illustrates the terrible power of water. The photograph of Quintella Williams holding her 9-day-old baby outside the Superdome (right) was chosen by Michael Appleton, who notes that the scene was “made all the more depressing by the fact that it didn’t have to be that way.”

FOLLOWING UP

In March, TIME explored the promise of precision medicine in treating cancer patients. One of the women featured on the cover, MaryAnn Anselmo (left), was taking a drug typically used for melanoma to treat her Stage IV glioblastoma–an aggressive brain tumor that often takes a patient’s life in a matter of months. Now, nearly two years after her diagnosis, Anselmo has happier news to share. “The latest scan doesn’t show any tumor anymore,” says her physician, Dr. David Hyman of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His newest study, in which Anselmo participated, was published in August in the New England Journal of Medicine. And how’s the patient feeling? “I’m tired all the time,” Anselmo tells TIME. “But I feel awesome compared to what this tumor could have done to me.” Read more at time.com/anselmo.

TIME LABS

Where do the richest Americans shop? Using numbers from the research company AggData, TIME compiled a list by ranking nearly 3,000 national retail chains–sellers of cars, computers, clothing and more–according to the median income of the counties where their shops are located. Among the findings: though Trader Joe’s may have a populist image, the grocer actually serves slightly wealthier counties than rival Whole Foods does. Here, a preview of the full ranking at labs.time.com:

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1. HANNA ANDERSSON Children’s clothing store with 56 locations 2. PAPER SOURCE A stationer, like No. 4–ranked Papyrus 3. TESLA Electric-car company with dealerships in 25 states

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