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The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. How the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve prevented an economic catastrophe

Throughout the rich world battle lines are being drawn in the coming fight over deficit reductionWHEN friends go out to dinner, the convivial atmosphere can be shattered once the waiter brings the bill. A pleasant evening can descend into a dispute about

TIME charts the highs and lows of the past year in 50 wide-ranging lists...

The media are giving Obama grief for just about everything. But it's far too soon to judge his policies

As we enter Memorial Day weekend, with its parades and programs honoring service to country, it's worth asking: What, precisely, do the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force still have to work out before deciding whether gays and lesbians can serve in their

Though food critics found it "slimy," "unhealthy" and "undignified," Americans love the Double Down, digesting millions of the notoriously breadless chicken sandwiches in the five weeks since its launch. Calling it an "unprecedented" success, KFC has deci

We've heard from former senator John Edwards, we've heard from his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Saint Elizabeth, and we've heard (bleh) from Andrew Young, the former Edwards aide and faux father. But through it all—the affair and the cancer-stricken spouse, the

Once the unpleasantness at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had had a little time to recede, America discovered that “the atom” wasn’t all bad. The bomb, yes—it was terrifying, as terrifying as a hundred 9/11s. American children got the wits scared out of t

A bumper crop of CEO politicians are campaigning to run the country like a bottom-line business.

When the crisis started, governments helped save the world economy. Now they are the problemLAST year it was banks; this year it is countries. The economic crisis, which seemed to have eased off in the latter part of 2009, is once again in full swing as t

A TIME photographer shares her thoughts about what it is like to photograph the President of the United States

She is the star of the Obama Cabinet and an international celebrity; An intimate portrait of the diplomat and her world

Obama's done-nothing rep is wrong.

Is there an actual key to the White House? Or is White House security too tight for the Obamas to have a key to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

Coffee aficionados have been asking the question over and over again: is Portland's Stumptown coffee, the most conspicuous exponent of Coffee's "Third Wave," the new Starbucks?