--- --- Back to the vault # December 21, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 23December 21, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 23  Issue name December 21st, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 23 | U.S. Issue date December 21, 2020 Location U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific, North America, South America Related categories [Influence](/vault/subject/influence/) [Person of the Year](/vault/subject/person-of-the-year/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents HistoryIdeasPoliticsWorld ### History [History](/section/history/) ### The History Behind TIME Choosing President-Elects as Person of the Year ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Behind the Scenes of TIME's 2020 Person of the Year Issue ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Joe Biden on Vaccines, Pardons and Uniting America: The 2020 TIME Person of the Year Interview Where does America go from here? That’s the colossal question before President-elect Joe Biden [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Kamala Harris on Joe Biden, Being a 'First' and Restoring the Soul of the Nation: The 2020 TIME Person of the Year Interview ### World [World](/section/world/) ### The Story Behind TIME's 2020 Person of the Year Covers [World](/section/world/) ### 'We Now Need to Do the Impossible.' How Greta Thunberg Is Fighting for a Greener Post-Pandemic World December 21st, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 23 | U.S. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"December 21st, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 23 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/5921295/december-21st-2020-vol-196-no-23-u-s/"}]}]} ```