Person of The Week

By TIME

TIME Senior Correspondent Charlotte Alter hosts candid conversations with the people who shape the world, about the forces that shape them. Tune in each Thursday to meet TIME's Person of the Week.<

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The podcast currently has 2,702 episodes available.

Person of The Week episodes:

June 04, 2022 The Tulsa Shooting Is a Reminder Health Care Workers Face Violence Every Day... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. The Tulsa Shooting Is a Reminder Health Care Workers Face Violence Every Day
2. Column: The UAE's New Leader Is Turning the Tiny Kingdom Into a Major Power Player
3. Justin Trudeau Cited U.S. Mass Shootings in Canada’s New Gun Bill. But Crime Is Surging There, Too
4. A Growing Number of Young People Are Attempting Suicide by Self-Poisoning .
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32min
June 03, 2022 Teachers Who Survived Past School Shootings Are Furious After Uvalde... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Teachers Who Survived Past School Shootings Are Furious After Uvalde
2. Here’s What to Know About COVID-19 Booster Shots for Kids
3. As Queen Elizabeth II Marks Her Platinum Jubilee, Who Is the Longest Reigning Monarch?
4. U.S. Landfills Are Getting a Second Life as Solar Farms .
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25min
June 02, 2022 U.S.-Russia Tensions Rise Amid Biden Decision to Send Rockets to Ukraine... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. U.S.-Russia Tensions Rise Amid Biden Decision to Send Rockets to Ukraine
2. Mass Shooting by Lone Gunman at Tulsa Hospital Leaves 4 Dead
3. Denmark Just Reversed 30 Years of Euroskeptic Defense Policy—Thanks to Russia
4. The Finals Are Happening. But NBA Twitter Can’t Get Past the Curry-Durant Drama
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27min
June 01, 2022 The ‘Good Guys With Guns’ Keep Failing to Stop Mass Shootings... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. The ‘Good Guys With Guns’ Keep Failing to Stop Mass Shootings
2. The Rising Costs of China's Zero-COVID Policy
3. Biden Says the U.S. Is Sending Medium-Range Rocket Systems to Ukraine
4. After Uvalde, Biden Fears Another Cycle of Inaction on Guns .
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31min
May 31, 2022 Monkeypox Won’t Turn Into a Pandemic, the WHO Says, but There Are Many Unknowns... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Monkeypox Won’t Turn Into a Pandemic, the WHO Says, but There Are Many Unknowns
2. Column: The U.S. Failed Miserably on COVID-19. Canada Shows It Didn't Have to Be That Way
3. After Being Locked Down for Two Months, Shanghai Takes Its Biggest Steps Toward Reopening
4. These Countries Restricted Assault Weapons After Just One Mass Shooting .
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30min
May 30, 2022 Uvalde Community Worships Together on First Sunday Since School Shooting Claimed 21 Lives... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Uvalde Community Worships Together on First Sunday Since School Shooting Claimed 21 Lives
2. Justice Department to Review Response to Texas School Shooting
3. Zelensky Visits Front Lines as Russia Closes in on Ukraine’s Industrial Donbas Region
4. Rock Star Ronnie Hawkins Dies at 87
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20min
May 29, 2022 ‘There Is an Emptiness.’ Uvalde Shooting Victim Lexi Rubio’s Great-Grandfather Remembers Her 10 Years of Life... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. ‘There Is an Emptiness.’ Uvalde Shooting Victim Lexi Rubio’s Great-Grandfather Remembers Her 10 Years of Life
2. How Parents Should Handle the Baby Formula Shortage, According to Pediatricians
3. An AI Company Scraped Billions of Photos For Facial Recognition. Regulators Can't Stop It
4. Chasing Nostalgia in New York City With Sloane Crosley .
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28min
May 28, 2022 School Shootings Are Raising Anxiety and Panic in U.S. Children... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. School Shootings Are Raising Anxiety and Panic in U.S. Children
2. What You Need to Know about Trump, Alfa Bank and the Durham Case against Michael Sussmann
3. U.S. Plastic Recycling Rates Are Even Worse Than We Thought
4. With Summer Travel Heating Up, Airlines Brace For Turbulence
5. Column: Why We Can't Let Turkey's Authoritarian Leader Bully NATO
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34min
May 27, 2022 ‘We Never Thought This Would Happen Here.’ Uvalde Residents Reckon With Gun Violence in Their Quiet Town... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. ‘We Never Thought This Would Happen Here.’ Uvalde Residents Reckon With Gun Violence in Their Quiet Town
2. Gov. Greg Abbott, After Yet Another Texas Mass Shooting, Praises Police
3. Mask Mandates Are Returning to Schools as COVID-19 Cases Surge
4. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi Is Visiting the South Pacific This Week. Here’s What’s at Stake .
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23min
May 26, 2022 Texas’ Gun Laws Have Become Looser in Recent Years. The Uvalde School Shooting Likely Won’t Change That... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Texas’ Gun Laws Have Become Looser in Recent Years. The Uvalde School Shooting Likely Won’t Change That
2. What Trump’s Bad Night in Georgia Really Means
3. The NRA’s Power is Waning. Opposition to New Gun Laws Isn’t.
4. At Least 20% of People Who Get COVID-19 Develop Lingering Conditions, CDC Study Says .
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26min

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