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Traoré, whose brother died in police custody in 2016, is one of TIME’s 2020 Guardians of the Year

Kamala Harris is the first Vice President-elect to be named TIME’s Person of the Year. TIME senior correspondent Charlotte Alter sat down with the California senator in Wilmington, Del., on Dec. 7—which happened to be Harris’s mother’s birthday. “She’d be very proud,” Harris told Alter, when asked what her mother would say as her daughter…

Where does America go from here? That’s the colossal question before President-elect Joe Biden

To illustrate the broad range of people featured on the 2020 Person of the Year covers, we commissioned artists and photographers with a variety of backgrounds and styles—from digital art to oil painting; portraitists to a high school freshman. The image of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as the 2020 Person of…

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 President-elect and Vice President-elect have appeared together on a Person of the Year cover. Harris is the first Vice President-elect…

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, one of the most-watched franchises in journalism, one that has endured world wars and depressions, periods of conflict and years…

BTS was named TIME's 2020 Entertainer of the Year

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 affected the news or our lives the most, for better or worse. Since 1927, TIME has picked a Person of…

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

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 heroes won with 6.5% of the more than 8 million votes cast in this year’s poll, which asked readers to…