Person of the Year 2020

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Assa Traoré and France's Fight for Racial Justice

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Kamala Harris on Restoring the Soul of the Nation

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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

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TIME’s History of President-Elects as Person of the Year

TIME’s 2020 Person of the Year choice of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris keeps with tradition—and breaks new ground. The selection of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris marks the first time a...

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Behind the Scenes of TIME's 2020 Person of the Year Issue

In the fall of any normal year, we pack a conference room at TIME’s headquarters in New York City with reporters, producers and editors to debate who should be selected as Person of the Year,...

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What Kamala Harris Brings to the White House

On Aug. 11, many of us were waiting with considerable suspense to find out whom Joe Biden would pick to be his running mate. A video that shows him calling Kamala Harris goes like this:...

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Are TIME's 2020 Person of the Year

To get past the stage-door entrance of the Queen theater, you need a negative COVID-19 test and a particular type of N95 mask. You have to promise not to eat or drink inside, and answer...

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Why TIME Chose Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the 2020 Person of the Year

Biden and Harris show that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division

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Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Frontline Health Workers Are TIME's 2020 Guardians of the Year

Guardians put themselves on the line to defend the ideals sacred to democracy. In 2020, they fought on many fronts. On the front line against COVID-19, the world’s health care workers displayed the best of...

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Eric Yuan Is TIME's 2020 Businessperson of the Year

When Milo McCabe’s daughter was born, he could see she had 10 fingers, 10 toes and dark swirls of hair; he could hear her piercing cry. But he couldn’t make out the color of her...

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BTS Performs 'Dynamite' in TIME's POY Special

BTS was named TIME's 2020 Entertainer of the Year

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Porche Bennett-Bey, Assa Traoré and Racial-Justice Organizers Are TIME's 2020 Guardians of the Year

Guardians put themselves on the line to defend the ideals sacred to democracy. In 2020, they fought on many fronts. When George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May, it was proof—if anyone needed it—that...

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LeBron James Is TIME's 2020 Athlete of the Year

Who is the 2020 TIME Person of the Year? Find out Thursday night during the first-ever TIME Person of the Year broadcast special on NBC at 10 p.m. ET. At 11:58 a.m. on June 8,...

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BTS Is TIME's 2020 Entertainer of the Year

Who is the 2020 TIME Person of the Year? Find out Thursday night during the first-ever TIME Person of the Year broadcast special on NBC at 10 p.m. ET. It’s late October, and Suga is...

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Who Will Be TIME's Person of the Year for 2020?

The shortlist of candidates for TIME's 2020 Person of the Year was announced Thursday morning during NBC's Today show. Four candidates are being considered by TIME editors for this year's selection of the person who...

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2020 TIME Person of the Year Debates

Join us for a live debate on who should be TIME's 2020 Person of the Year.

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Here's Who Won TIME's 2020 Person of the Year Reader Poll

Essential workers—the nurses, doctors, delivery people, grocery-store employees and many others who continue to risk their lives on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic—have won TIME’s 2020 Person of the Year reader poll. These...

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