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2012
2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President
The campaign wasn’t pretty, and the economy worse. but he reasserted himself as a potent architect for a changing america
Obama’s New Elite Club: Two-Time Persons of the Year
In being named Person of the Year 2012, Barack Obama joins a select group of individuals chosen more than once as TIME’s most influential newsmaker. Here are the others
TIME’s Person of the Year Issue: Cover Gallery
Every December, TIME honors a person of the year – along with a few notable runners-up. This year, in addition to “Person of the Year” Barack Obama, each runner–up was given a special cover treatment; see below for all five …
People Who Mattered in 2012
Social Reactions to TIME’s Person of the Year
See what @TIME users have to say about Barack Obama being selected as the 2012 person of the year.
The Year in Connections
The 2012 Teddy Awards for Political Courage
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by …
Setting the Stage for a Second Term
Obama speaks on Dec. 12 with TIME’s Rick Stengel, Radhika Jones and Michael Scherer about Lincoln, marijuana, the Middle East and Hawaii moments
On Foreign Policy, Why Barack is Like Ike
One of the least controversial judgments about Barack Obama’s first term is that he has been a good foreign policy President. Certainly that’s what the American public believes. It has given him high marks on overseas affairs …
