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The Choice
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Person of the Year
Volodymyr Zelensky， who in his
country’s darkest hour inspired the world
By Simon Shuster
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The Spirit
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Heroes
of the Year
The women of Iran， who led a rebellion grounded in three words: woman，
life， freedom
By Azadeh Moaveni
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Innovators
of the Year
Gregory Robinson and the James Webb Space Telescope team， who opened
a door to the universe
By Jeffrey Kluger
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Icon
of the Year
Michelle Yeoh，
who deserves to be Everything Everywhere
All at Once
By Lucy Feldman
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Athlete
of the Year
Aaron Judge，
who in setting a home-run record brought a nation back to its pastime
By Sean Gregory
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Entertainer of the Year
Blackpink， who
became the world’s biggest girl group by letting each member be herself
By Raisa Bruner


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Breakthrough
of the Year
Mickey Guyton，
who in a standout year breached country music’s barriers
By Andrew R. Chow
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From the Editor
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The Year In ...
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Best of Culture

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The Brief
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The View
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What Ukraine Reveals
Russia’s war has made clear how authoritarian states weaponize the networks that connect the world
By Peter Pomerantsev
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Origin Story
In The Fabelmans， Steven Spielberg brings his life to the movies
By Stephanie Zacharek
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Photos of the Year
2022
The images that captured
the moments that mattered
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Kids at Heart
Brands like Lego and Mattel
are now marketing to grownups
who still enjoy playtime
By Eliana Dockterman
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Time Off

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The Brief
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The View
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A New Kind of Midterm
An off-year election is usually a referendum on the incumbent President， but it was the 45th who loomed over this vote—and held Republicans back once again
By Molly Ball
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Best Inventions 2022
TIME’s annual list of innovative products doubles in size this year and ranges ever further， from a robotic scalpel and a swim cap for textured hair to a lithium battery that’s both smaller and more powerful than the ones we have

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Under the Sun
After the heat-related deaths of thousands of migrant workers， hosting the World Cup compelled Qatar to develop protocols for working outdoors safely in a rapidly warming world
By Aryn Baker

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Time Off

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The Brief
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The View
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Gathering of the Vibes
How voters feel about the candidates may matter more than the issues
By Charlotte Alter
Plus: Arizona gubernatorial hopeful
Kari Lake， rising Republican star
By Eric Cortellessa
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Climate in the Balance
Appealing to wealthy countries’ sense of climate justice hasn’t worked， but reframing the conversation around issues of self-interest could
By Justin Worland

The importance of loss and damage
By Aryn Baker 45

Viewpoints: The Bridgetown Initiative
By Mia Mottley A climate migrant in Uganda By Nyombi Morris What the world can learn from Bangladesh By Saleemul Huq How Egypt stifles environmental activism By Sahar Aziz 50

In Ecuador， green-energy developers go head-to-head with river defenders
By Mélissa Godin 52

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Disrupter Maestro
Gustavo Dudamel， the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s artistic director， brings classical music to the masses
By Ed Leibowitz

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Time Off

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The Brief
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The View
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All Roads Lead to
Xi Jinping
China’s President for life begins his third term with a ruthless grip
on power that imperils
the global economy
By Charlie Campbell
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Lincoln’s
Lessons
When he faced a profoundly polarized America， the 16th President preserved democracy by linking politics to conscience
By Jon Meacham
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The Measure of #MeToo
Five years after a movement that provided an invaluable solidarity to survivors went viral， sexual violence remains a public-health crisis
By Tarana Burke
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Next Generation Leaders
From Chennai to London， Beijing to Kyiv， meet 10 rising stars steering the world to a brighter future

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Time Off

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The Brief
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The View
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Top Gun
Ukrainian General Valeriy Zaluzhny leads a counteroffensive
against the Russians
By Simon Shuster and
Vera Bergengruen
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Democracy
On the Ballot
The most important races in November’s midterms feature candidates trying to fend off conspiracy theorists
By Charlotte Alter

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TIME100 Next
The artists， advocates， leaders， innovators， and phenoms who are today’s brightest rising stars—including Lashana Lynch by Viola Davis， Ja Morant by Justin Timberlake， Luisa Neubauer by Vanessa Nakate， and 97 more

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The Brief
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The View
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The Age of Elizabeth
The reign of Queen Elizabeth II spanned seven decades that
seemed to change everything except Britain’s longest serving monarch
By Steve Dougherty and Larry Sutton
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Nuclear Option
Under the prairie with crews struggling to maintain a Cold War arsenal that would cost $100 billion to fully upgrade
By W.J. Hennigan

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Climate Changes
Playing for Time:
As the human cost of climate change accelerates， signs of hope emerge
By Justin Worland

Urging Action:
Author Margaret Atwood on the importance of being positive
about the future
By Lucy Feldman 56

The Other Amazon:
The online retailer is buying up wind or solar capacity worldwide in its drive to reach net-zero carbon by 2040
By Andrew Blum 58
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The Brief
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The View
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Time Off
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The Greatest
Of All Time
Serena Williams changed far more than the sport she dominated
By Sean Gregory
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Gun
Mettle
The saber-rattling of U.S. firearms companies
By Alana Semuels
What sells guns
By Olivia B. Waxman
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Hacking Twitter
The platform’s former security chief blows the whistle
By Billy Perrigo，
Andrew R. Chow， and Vera Bergengruen
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How Green Was
My Desert
Saudi Arabia claims the world’s biggest oil exporter can also lead the way on sustainable technology
By Vivienne Walt
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A New Latin
American Left
Chile is on the brink of historic change—and so is its youngest President ever
By Ciara Nugent64
The Power
Of Rings
Inside Amazon’s bighearted， extravagant， and wildly expensive prequel to
Lord of the Rings
By Eliana Dockterman

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The Brief
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The View
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Afghanistan in Memory
Women who fled Kabul a year ago build new lives abroad
By Naina Bajekal， Amie Ferris-Rotman， Farahnaz Forotan， Zahra Joya， Jill Langlois， and Corinne Redfern
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Preparing for the
Next Pandemic
A drug company organizes a global surveillance network to detect—and move against—new strains of COVID-19， and the inevitable new threats coming after
By Alice Park

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Sound It Out
The nationwide push to teach children reading through phonics， which research shows works best
By Belinda Luscombe
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The Greater Good
Oxford philosopher William MacAskill and the effort to improve as many lives as possible
By Naina Bajekal

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The Brief
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The View
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Putin’s Prisoner
What the detention of Brittney Griner says about the clash of superpowers
By Sean Gregory
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Very Meta
The metaverse will alter our lives. Possibly for the better
By Matthew Ball
The false promise of a play-to-earn blockchain game
By Chad de Guzman and Andrew R. Chow
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The Long Game
Jim Clyburn’s unsung quest for Black political power
By Molly Ball
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Power Train
A new lithium mine in Argentina
could fix EVs’ dirty secret
By Ciara Nugent
A Vietnamese electric-car company goes global by way of North Carolina
By Charlie Campbell
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Enjoying The View
How Joy Behar
gets away with it all
By Belinda Luscombe
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