Adolf Hitler famously appeared on the cover of TIME magazine in 1938 as Person of the Year, as did Stalin in 1939 and 1942 and Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, proving the magazine’s annual line-up isn’t always highlighting a figure who shaped the year for the better.
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Donald Trump – GOP presidential candidate whose populism has given him frontrunner status in the race while generating debate over the future of the Republican party and the country.
Time magazine has shortlisted eight candidates for its Person of the Year 2015 honor, and Donald Trump made the cut.
It also includes “Black Lives Matter activists”, who are actually a deserving choice and I appreciate their work.
While the Person of the Year will be decided by the Time magazine editors, readers are being asked their vote on NBC’s website.
The Person of the year has been already chosen behind closed doors at Times Magazine.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani signed an agreement in July that places significant limits on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.
Former KGB officer Vladimir Putin was appointed president of Russian Federation in 1999. PM Narendra Modi is not in the list which includes leader of the Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Caitlyn Jenner and Vladimir Putin.
Travis Kalanick changed the way people get around when he co-founded Uber Technologies in 2009.
The “Black Lives Matter” movement has started a new civil rights era in the USA, putting the spotlight firmly on racial injustices that are a scourge to the country.
The Ebola Fighters were last year’s Time Person of the Year, according to WNCN. So ideally, we want our Person of the Year to be both a snapshot of where the world is and a picture of where it’s going.
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Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the editors explained that the al Qaeda leader was the dominant force making news of that year, but gave the award to then New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani instead as a symbol of America’s response to the massacre.
