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Topic: Time Person of the Year

Greta Thunberg on December 13, 2019 in Turin, Italy. The 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg, just been elected Time Magazine's Person of the Year, on her way back from Madrid (where COP25 is happening) to Stockholm decided to partecipate to 50th Friday For Future in Turin. (Mauro Ujetto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Activism lifted Greta from depression

Matthew Rozsa
Greta Thunberg, Laura Ingraham, and Devin Nunes (Getty Images/ Jeff Malet Photography/ Salon)

Ingraham attacks Greta Thunberg on Fox

Matthew Rozsa
Jamal Khashoggi on the cover of 'Time' (Twitter/TIME)

Victims in the "war on truth"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Jamal Khashoggi on the cover of 'Time' (Twitter/TIME)

2018 "Person of the Year": Journalists

Matthew Rozsa
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Time: Trump is "incorrect"

Charlie May
Rodrigo Duterte; Donald Trump (Getty/Noel Celis/Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

Trump and Duterte, BFFs

Heather Digby Parton

Time's blinding irrelevance

Jack Mirkinson
In this file photo taken on Sept. 24, 2014, nurse Dalila Martinez, trainer of the Cuban medical team to travel to Sierra Leone, enters a tent during a practice drill at a training camp, in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Ladyrene Perez, Cubadebate, File)

The battle is far from over

Lindsay Abrams
(AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Katie McDonough
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