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Reading culture by covers: Time put Obama on the cover for 13th time this year in a special Inauguration Preview, at left. In 2008 political themes were on the cover 19 times at Time and only one movie star was on the cover (George Clooney). Newsweek had 26 cover stories on politics last year -- including two on Michelle Obama.
How to fix our world and our problems requires the mojo of a rock star, the heft of a pope, the cojones of a king, and the uuummmph of an underdog - soft power, hard power, social power and political power. The cultural yearnings cut across the currents here and this proliferation of the O-man everywhere isn't just the hope for a leader to fix our problems, but also, and perhaps more significantly, a mirror to our (post-white) selves.
Reading culture by covers: Time put Obama on the cover for 13th time this year in a special Inauguration Preview, at left. In 2008 political themes were on the cover 19 times at Time and only one movie star was on the cover (George Clooney). Newsweek had 26 cover stories on politics last year -- including two on Michelle Obama.
How to fix our world and our problems requires the mojo of a rock star, the heft of a pope, the cojones of a king, and the uuummmph of an underdog - soft power, hard power, social power and political power. The cultural yearnings cut across the currents here and this proliferation of the O-man everywhere isn't just the hope for a leader to fix our problems, but also, and perhaps more significantly, a mirror to our (post-white) selves.
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Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is an American news magazine. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, covering Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. In December 2008, Time discontinued publishing a Canadian advertiser edition.
Time is the world's largest weekly news magazine, and has a domestic audience of 20 million and a global audience of 25 million.
Richard Stengel has been the managing editor since 2006.
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