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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Person of The Week episodes:

December 25, 2021 For Some, a Second Pandemic Winter Means Seasonal Affective Disorder Is Hitting Hard... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. For Some, a Second Pandemic Winter Means Seasonal Affective Disorder Is Hitting Hard
2. The Seeds of Christmas Were Planted Long Before the Nativity
3. Companies Embrace Older Workers As Younger Employees Quit or Become Less Reliable
4. The 70/20/10 Rule For Growing in Your Job .
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35min
December 24, 2021 Joan Didion Wrote About Grief Like No One Else Could... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Joan Didion Wrote About Grief Like No One Else Could
2. Kim Potter Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Shooting Death of Daunte Wright
3. What Low-Wage Workers Understand About the True Meaning of Christmas
4. The Grim History of Christmas for Enslaved People in the Deep South
5. LAPD Officers Accidentally Kill 14-Year-Old Girl While Shooting at Suspect .
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31min
December 23, 2021 If the Economy Is Doing So Well, Why Does It Feel Like a Disaster?... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. If the Economy Is Doing So Well, Why Does It Feel Like a Disaster?
2. How Hong Kong Is Dismantling the Memory of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
3. U.S. Life Expectancy Dropped Nearly 2 Years in 2020
4. How to Make COVID-19 Testing for Travel Far More Effective
5. China Locks Down 13 Million People in Xi’an Following COVID-19 Spike .
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30min
December 22, 2021 The NHL Reportedly Will Not Send Players to Beijing Olympics Over COVID-19 Delays to Season... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. The NHL Reportedly Will Not Send Players to Beijing Olympics Over COVID-19 Delays to Season
2. We Need to Start Thinking Differently About Breakthrough Infections
3. ‘Maybe the War Would Have Ended Earlier.’ Afghanistan Watchdog Says Secrecy Hurt Oversight Effort
4. Biden Pivots to Home Tests to Confront Omicron Surge .
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35min
December 21, 2021 Nobody Should Be Surprised Joe Manchin Killed Biden’s Agenda... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Nobody Should Be Surprised Joe Manchin Killed Biden’s Agenda
2. Omicron Takes Over America: COVID-19 Variant Now Makes Up 73% Cases
3. Column: How Trump Stole Christmas—And Why Evangelicals Rally to Their Savior
4. Donald Trump Received a COVID-19 Booster Shot—and Got Booed for It by His Own Crowd
5. Hong Kong Sees Lowest Ever Voter Turnout After Beijing’s New Election Rules .
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29min
December 20, 2021 Sen. Joe Manchin Says He Won’t Vote for Biden’s $2T Family and Climate Policy Bill... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Sen. Joe Manchin Says He Won’t Vote for Biden’s $2T Family and Climate Policy Bill
2. Column: Protests Reduce Police Killings, New Research Shows
3. Leftist Millennial Elected President in Chile
4. In-Demand U.S. Recruiters Get Largest Bump in Real Wages
5. Why Abortion Access Is a Workplace Issue
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29min
December 19, 2021 Why Frances Haugen Is ‘Super Scared’ About Facebook’s Metaverse... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Why Frances Haugen Is ‘Super Scared’ About Facebook’s Metaverse
2. House Votes to Hold Mark Meadows in Contempt for Refusing Jan. 6 Subpoena
3. She Made Jeans for Americans. When They Stopped Shopping, She Turned to Sex Work .
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27min
December 18, 2021 Small Businesses Are Being Honest About Price Increases—and It’s Working... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. Small Businesses Are Being Honest About Price Increases—and It’s Working
2. Fentanyl and COVID-19 May Have Made the Opioid Epidemic Even Deadlier
3. Want to Win the White House? Recruit a Candidate for School Board
4. Review: Ben Affleck Isn’t the Star of The Tender Bar—But He’s the Reason To Watch
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28min
December 17, 2021 How Do You Even Calculate COVID-19 Risk Anymore?... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. How Do You Even Calculate COVID-19 Risk Anymore?
2. A Wonky Tax Break for the Well-Off Is a Bigger Problem for Democrats Than You’d Think
3. U.S. Government Recommends Americans Get the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 Shots Instead of J&J’s
4. Column: A 'Mississippi Compromise' on Abortion Would Threaten All Our Freedoms .
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33min
December 16, 2021 How the U.S. Boycott of the Beijing Olympics Is Splitting the World... and More Stories
Included in this episode:
1. How the U.S. Boycott of the Beijing Olympics Is Splitting the World
2. bell hooks, Renowned Author, Activist and Educator, Dies at 69
3. U.S. Surpasses 50 million COVID-19 Cases. It Has Been Worse
4. Column: My Family's Hometown Was Destroyed by a Tornado But For Many It Had Already Been Lost
5. Joe Biden Tries to Bring Comfort to Kentucky After Deadly Tornadoes
6. Happy Centenary, Bloody Mary. Drinkers Celebrate a Famous Cocktail’s 100th Birthday .
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29min

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