| Date | Name(s) |
|---|
| Jan 12 | Howard Dean |
| Jan 19 | Love, Sex & Health |
| Jan 26 | Mission to Mars |
| Feb 2 | Why Your Drugs Cost So Much |
| Feb 9 | What Kind of President Would John Kerry Be? |
| Feb 16 | Does Bush Have a Credibility Gap? |
| Feb 23 | Inflammation: The Secret Killer |
| Mar 1 | Are Too Many Jobs Going Abroad? |
| Mar 8 | Afghanistan: The Other War |
| Mar 15 | Iraq: Looking for a Way Out |
| Mar 22 | The Case for Moms Staying Home |
| Mar 29 | Al-Qaeda: The Next Generation |
| Apr 5 | Feeling the Heat |
| Apr 12 | Why Did Jesus Have to Die? |
| Apr 15 | Style & Design: Retro Modernism |
| Apr 19 | State of Siege |
| Apr 26 | The Time 100 |
| May 3 | Low-Carb Nation |
| May 10 | Secrets of the Teen Brain |
| May 17 | Iraq: How Did it Come to This? |
| May 24 | Moment of Truth |
| May 31 | D-Day |
| Jun 7 | Overcoming Obesity in America |
| Jun 14 | Ronald Reagan |
| Jun 21 | Faith, God & the Oval Office |
| Jun 28 | Bill Clinton |
| Jul 5 | Thomas Jefferson |
| Jul 12 | Michael Moore |
| Jul 19 | John Edwards & John Kerry |
| Jul 26 | It's Vegas Baby |
| Aug 2 | John Kerry |
| Aug 9 | Michael Phelps |
| Aug 16 | Al-Qaeda in America |
| Aug 23 | Saving the Big Cats |
| Aug 30 | How to Live to be 100 |
| Sep 6 | George W. Bush |
| Sep 13 | The Struggle Within Islam |
| Sep 14 | Style & Design: Luxury Fever |
| Sep 20 | America's Border |
| Sep 27 | Who Owns the Truth? |
| Oct 4 | The Tragedy of Sudan |
| Oct 11 | Visions of Tomorrow |
| Oct 18 | George W. Bush & John Kerry |
| Oct 25 | The God Gene |
| Nov 1 | The Morning After |
| Nov 8 | The Joy of Sox |
| Nov 15 | George W. Bush |
| Nov 22 | Street Fight: The Battle for Fallujah |
| Nov 29 | The Most Amazing Inventions of 2004 |
| Dec 6 | The Stealth Killer |
| Dec 13 | Secrets of the Nativity |
| Dec 20 | The New Science of Sleep |
| Dec 27 | George W. Bush, Person of the Year |
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| Date | Name(s) |
|---|
| Jan 10 | Tsunami |
| Jan 17 | The Science of Happiness |
| Jan 24 | They Just Won't Grow Up |
| Jan 31 | Iraq: How Soon Can We Get Out? |
| Feb 7 | The Most Influential Evangelicals in America |
| Feb 14 | Merchant of Menace |
| Feb 21 | What Teachers Hate About Parents |
| Feb 28 | The Right (and Wrong) Way to Treat Pain |
| Mar 7 | Women and the Math Myth |
| Mar 14 | How to End Poverty |
| Mar 21 | Hail, Mary |
| Mar 28 | Has TV Gone Too Far? |
| Apr 4 | The End of Life: Who Decides? |
| Apr 11 | John Paul II |
| Apr 18 | The 2005 TIME 100 |
| Apr 25 | Ann Coulter |
| May 2 | Benedict XVI |
| May 9 | The Last Star Wars |
| May 16 | A Female Midlife Crisis? |
| May 23 | Bill Gates |
| May 30 | The Class of 9/11 |
| Jun 6 | How to Get Fitter & Faster |
| Jun 13 | Home $weet Home |
| Jun 20 | Inside the Wire at Gitmo |
| Jun 27 | China's New Revolution |
| Jul 4 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Jul 11 | The Supreme Battle |
| Jul 18 | Rush Hour Terror |
| Jul 25 | Karl Rove |
| Aug 1 | Eyewitnesses to Hiroshima |
| Aug 8 | Being 13 |
| Aug 15 | The Evolution Wars |
| Aug 22 | The 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America |
| Aug 29 | Kanye West |
| Sep 5 | How to Stop a Heart Attack Before it Happens |
| Sep 12 | An American Tragedy |
| Sep 19 | System Failure |
| Sep 26 | Is It Too Late To Win the War? |
| Oct 3 | Are We Making Hurricanes Worse? |
| Oct 10 | The Battle Over Gay Teens |
| Oct 17 | Andrew Weil |
| Oct 24 | Steve Jobs |
| Oct 31 | The Great Retirement Ripoff |
| Nov 7 | How to Save a Life |
| Nov 14 | The Secrets of Ambition |
| Nov 21 | The Most Amazing Inventions of 2005 |
| Nov 28 | New Orleans Blues |
| Dec 5 | The Year in Medicine from A to Z |
| Dec 12 | Steven Spielberg |
| Dec 19 | The Best Photos of 2005 |
| Dec 26 | Bill Gates, Bono & Melinda Gates |
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| Date | Name(s) |
|---|
| Jan 9 | The Secret Agony of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Jan 16 | Jack Abramoff |
| Jan 23 | Bode Miller |
| Jan 30 | Bill Ford |
| Feb 6 | Inside America's Secret Workforce |
| Feb 13 | Is America Flunking Science? |
| Feb 20 | Larry Page, Eric Schmidt & Sergey Brin |
| Feb 27 | Dick Cheney & George W. Bush |
| Mar 6 | Iraq Breaking Point |
| Mar 13 | Daria Werbowy |
| Mar 13 | The Untold Saga of Early Man in America |
| Mar 27 | Are Kids Too Wired for Their Own Good? |
| Apr 3 | Global Warming: Be Worried. Be Very Worried |
| Apr 10 | Who Gets to Be an American? |
| Apr 17 | Christine Harden |
| Apr 24 | The Ways of Opus Dei |
| May 1 | What Doctors Hate About Hospitals |
| May 8 | The TIME 100 |
| May 15 | Nick Furth |
| May 22 | Michael Hayden |
| May 29 | Radical Chicks |
| Jun 5 | Congo: The Hidden Toll of the World's Deadliest War |
| Jun 12 | Haditha |
| Jun 19 | Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi |
| Jun 26 | India Inc. |
| Jul 3 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Jul 10 | How Your Siblings Make You Who You Are |
| Jul 17 | The End of Cowboy Diplomacy |
| Jul 24 | Why They Fight and Why It's Different This Time |
| Jul 31 | The Way Out...Of This Mess. The Six Keys To Peace In The Middle East. |
| Aug 7 | The Truth About Stem Cells: The Hope, The Hype and What it Means For You |
| Aug 14 | Life In Hell: A Baghdad Diary |
| Aug 21 | Who Needs Harvard? |
| Aug 28 | Hillary Clinton |
| Sep 4 | How The Stars Were Born |
| Sep 10 | Doutzen Kroes |
| Sep 11 | What We Lost |
| Sep 18 | Does God Want You To Be Rich? |
| Sep 25 | What War With Iran Would Look Like (And How To Avoid It) |
| Oct 2 | How I Lost My Hand But Found Myself |
| Oct 9 | How We Became Human |
| Oct 16 | What A Mess... |
| Oct 23 | Why Barack Obama Could Be The Next President |
| Oct 30 | The United States of America |
| Nov 6 | George W. Bush |
| Nov 13 | God vs. Science |
| Nov 20 | Why the Center is the New Place to Be |
| Nov 21 | Style & Design Winter 2006 |
| Nov 28 | Benedict XVI |
| Dec 4 | Why We Worry About the Wrong Things |
| Dec 11 | George W. Bush |
| Dec 18 | How To Build a Student For the 21st Century |
| Dec 25 | You, Person of the Year |
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| Date | Name(s) |
|---|
| Jan 15 | The Surge |
| Jan 22 | China: New Dawn of a Dynasty |
| Jan 29 | Mind & Body Special Issue: The Brain |
| Feb 5 | Only 648 Days until the Election |
| Feb 12 | Back To Reality |
| Feb 19 | Haji Bashar Noorzai |
| Feb 26 | The Abortion Campaign You Never Hear About |
| Mar 4 | Style & Design Spring 2007 |
| Mar 5 | Sunni vs. Shi'ites: Why They Hate Each Other |
| Mar 12 | Forget Organic. Eat Local |
| Mar 19 | Dick Cheney |
| Mar 26 | Ronald Reagan |
| Apr 2 | Why We Should Teach The Bible In Public School |
| Apr 9 | The Global Warming Survival Guide |
| Apr 16 | Why Our Army Is At the Breaking Point |
| Apr 22 | Style & Design Summer 2007 |
| Apr 23 | Don Imus |
| Apr 30 | Trying To Make Sense of a Massacre |
| May 7 | America at 400 |
| May 14 | The TIME 100: The Most Influential People in The World |
| May 21 | Mitt Romney |
| May 28 | Al Gore |
| Jun 4 | Report Card on No Child Left Behind |
| Jun 11 | The Science of Appetite |
| Jun 18 | Why Amnesty Makes Sense |
| Jun 25 | Michael Bloomberg & Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Jul 2 | John F. Kennedy |
| Jul 9 | Rupert Murdoch |
| Jul 16 | How We Get Addicted |
| Jul 23 | How The Democrats Got Religion |
| Jul 30 | Iraq: What Will Happen When We Leave |
| Aug 6 | The Myth About Boys |
| Aug 13 | Why New Orleans Still Isn't Safe |
| Aug 19 | Style & Design Visionaries |
| Aug 20 | The Political Confessions of Billy Graham |
| Aug 27 | The Genius Problem |
| Sep 3 | Mother Teresa |
| Sep 10 | The Case for National Service |
| Sep 16 | Hilary Rhoda |
| Sep 17 | David Petraeus |
| Sep 24 | The Running Mates |
| Oct 1 | Who Owns the Arctic? |
| Oct 8 | V-22 Osprey |
| Oct 15 | Why Breast Cancer Is Spreading Around The World |
| Oct 22 | John Roberts |
| Oct 29 | The Secrets Of Birth Order |
| Nov 5 | Why California Is Burning |
| Nov 12 | Best Inventions of 2007 |
| Nov 19 | Hillary Clinton |
| Nov 25 | Style & Design: The Luxury Index |
| Nov 26 | America by the Numbers |
| Dec 3 | What Makes Us Good/Evil |
| Dec 10 | Barack Obama |
| Dec 17 | Now They Tell Us? |
| Dec 24 | This Space Available |
| Dec 31 | Vladimir Putin, Person of the Year |
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| Date | Person(s)/Object | Caption |
|---|
| Jan 14 | Benazir Bhutto | No One Could Save Benazir Bhutto. Why We Need to Save Pakistan |
| Jan 21 | Voters in voting booths | New Hampshire Special: It's the Voters, Stupid |
| Jan 28 | Comic book style illustration of couple kissing | Annual Minds & Body Special Issue: The Science of Romance |
| Feb 4 | John McCain | The Phoenix: Can John McCain Keep Rising? |
| Feb 11 | Group of young voters | Why Young Voters Care Again |
| Feb 18 | Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama | Super Tuesday Special: The Battle For the Soul of the Democrats |
| Feb 25 | Julie Court, 6th grade teacher at Queens Village, NY, Middle School | How To Make Better Teachers |
| Mar 3 | George Clooney | The Last Movie Star: How George Clooney Plays the Game |
| Mar 10 | Barack Obama | How Much Does Experience Matter? |
| Mar 17 | Hillary Clinton | The Fighter: How she came back - and why it could be too late |
| Mar 24 | The number 10 with the Earth in place of a zero | 10 Ideas That Are Changing the World |
| Mar 31 | Dalai Lama VII | The Dalai Lama's Journey |
| Apr 7 | Ear of corn with dollar bills instead of husks | The Clean Energy Myth |
| Apr 14 | Benedict XVI and American landmarks | Why the Pope Loves America |
| Apr 21 | Ann Dunham & Barack Obama | Raising Obama |
| Apr 28 | Flag raising at Iwo Jima with tree in place of flag | Special Environmental Issue: How to Win The War On Global Warming |
| May 5 | Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton split in half | There Can Only Be One |
| May 12 | Collage of TIme Covers | The TIME 100 |
| May 19 | Barack Obama | And the Winner* Is... (*Yes, we're pretty sure this time) |
| May 26 | Skinny piggy bank | Surviving the Lean Economy |
| Jun 2 | Baby making face at vaccine | The Truth About Vaccines |
| Jun 9 | Fire alarm | How to Survive a Disaster |
| Jun 16 | Prozac pill in Army camouflage | The Military's Secret Weapon |
| Jun 23 | Obese child on skateboard | Special Health Issue: Our Super-Sized Kids |
| Jun 30 | United States-Mexico border wall | The Great Wall of America |
| Jul 7 | American flag pin | The Real Meaning of Patriotism |
| Jul 14 | Mark Twain | Annual Making of America Issue: The Dangerous Mind of Mark Twain |
| Jul 21 | Nelson Mandela | Mandela at 90: The Secrets of Leadership |
| Jul 28 | U.S. soldier in Afghanistan | Afghanistan: The Right War |
| Aug 4 | LeBron James | Beijing '08 Summer Olympic Preview |
| Aug 11 | Barack Obama & John McCain | Special Report: Job #1 - The Economy |
| Aug 18 | Rick Warren | The Purpose Driven Pastor |
| Aug 25 | Russian soldier on road to Tbilisi | How to Stop a New Cold War |
| Sep 1 | Barack Obama | Special Issue: The Democrats |
| Sep 8 | John McCain | Special Issue: The Republicans |
| Sep 15 | Sarah Palin | The Education of Sarah Palin |
| Sep 22 | Barack Obama & John McCain as construction workers | Second Annual National Service Issue: 21 Ways to Fix Up America |
| Sep 29 | Legs sticking out of hole | How Wall Street Sold Out America |
| Oct 5 | Tom Ford |
| Oct 6 | Ballot with options of John McCain, Barack Obama, and None of the Above | Who Can Rescue The Economy? |
| Oct 13 | Soup line during Great Depression | The New Hard Times |
| Oct 20 | Barack Obama split into white half and colored half | Campaign Special: Why the Economy is Trumping Race |
| Oct 27 | Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, John McCain & Franklin D. Roosevelt | Does Temperament Matter? |
| Nov 2 | Sylvia Tamburo |
| Nov 3 | Electronic voting machine | 7 Things That Could Go Wrong on Election Day |
| Nov 10 | Barack Obama & John McCain | Special Issue: The Choice |
| Nov 17 | Barack Obama, Chicago, November 4th, 2008 | Commemorative Issue: "Change has come to America" |
| Nov 24 | Barack Obama as Franklin D. Roosevelt at his 1933 inauguration | The New New Deal |
| Nov 30 | The Luxury Index |
| Dec 1 | Patient having throat examined with tongue depressor | Annual Checkup: The Sorry State of American Health |
| Dec 8 | Michelle Rhee | How to Fix America's Schools |
| Dec 15 | Wrenches tightening bolts in a rusty GM logo | The Case for Saving Detroit |
| Dec 22 | Collection of lists | The List Issue |
| Dec 29 | Barack Obama in style of Hope poster | 2008 Person of the Year |
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| Date | Person(s)/Object | Caption |
|---|
| Jan 12 | Sweater with energy-efficient lightbulb in collar | Why We Need To See the Light About Energy Efficiency |
| Jan 19 | Star of David behind barbed wire and wall | Why Israel Can't Win |
| Jan 26 | Barack Obama | Great Expectations |
| Feb 2 | Barack Obama & Michelle Obama | President Barack Obama: January 20, 2009 |
| Feb 9 | Stem cells | How the Coming Revolution in Stem Cells Could Save Your Life |
| Feb 16 | Fish wrapped in issue of The New York Times | How to Save Your Newspaper |
| Feb 23 | Woman meditating | Mind and Body Special Issue: How Faith Can Heal |
| Mar 2 | Kate Winslet | Best Actress: Why It's Kate Winslet |
| Mar 9 | Hands grasping frayed rope | Holding On for Dear Life/The Economy & You: A Special Report |
| Mar 16 | Bottle of pills | So You Think You're Insured? |
| Mar 22 | Arlenis Sosa |
| Mar 23 | The Earth | 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now |
| Mar 30 | Bomb with AIG logo | The Bailout Bomb |
| Apr 6 | Reset button | The End of Excess |
| Apr 13 | Sumatran tiger | Special Environment Issue: Vanishing Act |
| Apr 20 | A U.S. soldier | How Not To Lose in Afghanistan |
| Apr 27 | Coin jar | The New Frugality |
| May 3 | Style & Design: The Green Design 100 |
| May 4 | Barack Obama | 100 Days |
| May 11 | Collage of Time covers | TIME 100 |
| May 18 | GOP elephant | Endangered Species |
| May 25 | Man split into casual upper half and formal lower half | The Future of Work |
| Jun 1 | Michelle Obama | The Meaning of Michelle |
| Jun 8 | Sonia Sotomayor | Latina Justice |
| Jun 15 | Tweet advertising cover story | (no caption) |
| Jun 22 | Empty hospital bed | The Health Issue: It's All About Prevention |
| Jun 29 | Mousavi supporters | Iran vs. Iran |
| Jul 6 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Annual Making of America Issue: What Barack Obama Can Learn From FDR |
| Jul 7 | Michael Jackson | Special Commemorative Issue |
| Jul 13 | Wedding cake with couple figurines pushed inside | Unfaithfully Yours |
| Jul 20 | Sarah Palin | The Renegade |
| Jul 27 | Buzz Aldrin on the moon, 1969 | Moonstruck: 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 |
| Aug 3 | Dick Cheney & George W. Bush | Special Report: The Final Days of Bush and Cheney |
| Aug 10 | Barack Obama in doctor's garb | Health Care Special Report: Paging Dr. Obama |
| Aug 17 | Woman exercising on treadmill visualizing cupcake | The Myth about Exercise |
| Aug 24 | Las Vegas sign with "Las" changed to "Less" | Less Vegas |
| Aug 31 | Package of hamburger meat | The Real Cost of Cheap Food |
| Sep 7 | Ted Kennedy | Ted Kennedy: 1932-2009 |
| Sep 13 | Style & Design: Fashion's Bright Side |
| Sep 14 | Jay Leno | Jay Leno Is the Future of Television. Seriously! |
| Sep 21 | Jobless Americans | Out of Work in America |
| Sep 28 | Glenn Beck | Mad Man |
| Oct 5 | Derelict scene in Detroit | The Tragedy Of Detroit |
| Oct 12 | Chet Millard | The War Up Close |
| Oct 19 | 401(k) text amid rising waters | Why It's Time to Retire the 401(k) |
| Oct 26 | Elena Evangelo | The State of the American Woman |
| Nov 2 | Computer chip in shape of California | Why California Is Still America's Future |
| Nov 9 | Man with cartoon eyebrows, mustache, and mouth | Why Main Street Hates Wall Street |
| Nov 16 | Hillary Clinton | The State of Hillary |
| Nov 23 | Nidal Malik Hasan | Terrorist? |
| Nov 30 | Child with strings attached | The Case Against Over-Parenting |
| Dec 7 | Crying baby at New Year's party | The Decade from Hell |
| Dec 14 | President Obama amid West Point cadets | It's His War Now |
| Dec 21 | Collage of pictures | Special Issue: The Year in Pictures |
| Dec 28 | Ben Bernanke | Person Of The Year 2009 |
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