List of covers of Time magazine (2020s)

This is a list of covers of Time magazine between 2020 and 2029. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles.

European, Middle Eastern, African, Asian and South Pacific versions of the magazine were published in addition to the United States edition. This article distinguishes versions when the covers are different.

For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine.

2020

Date Persons or topics Caption
January 20 Nancy Pelosi[1] Her Gamble
January 27 Jared Kushner[2] The Family Business
February 3 The Earth Youthquake[3]
February 10 Joe Biden What Makes Joe Run[4]
February 17 Illustration of Xi Jinping[5] China's Test
March 2 Martin Luther King Jr. His Legacy[6]
March 16 Various covers of influential women throughout history 100 Women of the Year[7]
March 30 Coronavirus disease 2019[8] New Coronavirus 2019
April 6 José Andrés[9] Apart. Not Alone
April 20 An Anesthesiologist Special Report: Heroes of the front lines[10]
April 27 Street art in Paris on April 11 Finding Hope[11]
May 11 A NOPE! sign The Long road back[12]
May 18 US unemployment graph from 1933 to 2020 The Great Reckoning[13]
May 25 Illustration of Donald Trump There's a right way to reopen America. This isn't it.[14]
June 1 Photograph by Hannah Beier Generation Pandemic[15]
June 15 Painting by Titus Kaphar ...Trayvon Martin, Yvette Smith, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Lacquan McDonald, Tanisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Jerame Reid, Natasha McKenna, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, William Chapman, Sandra Bland, Darrius Stewart, Samuel Dubose, Janet Wilson, Calin Roquemore, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Joseph Mann, Terence Crutcher, Chad Robertson, Jordan Edwards, Aaron Bailey, Stephon Clark, Danny Ray Thomas, Antwon Rose, Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, Michael Dean, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd...[16]

(Names around the red border)

June 22 George Floyd Protests The Overdue Awakening[17]
July 6 Painting by Charly Palmer America Must Change[18]
July 20 A graph of climate change over the last 2 centuries One Last Chance[19]
August 3 John Lewis[20] 1940-2020
August 17 Illustration of Donald Trump and coronavirus disease 2019 floating in a body of water in front of the White House The Plague Election[21]
August 31 Image of a black and red Flag of the United States being sewn The New American Revolution[22]
September 21 A list of dates from February 29 through September 8 and the US coronavirus disease 2019 death toll with "200,000" highlighted[23] An American Failure
October 5 Various covers, including Megan Thee Stallion, Anthony Fauci, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union, The Weeknd, and more Time 100[24]
October 19 An image of coronavirus disease 2019 viral cells exiting the White House[25] (no caption)
November 2 An illustration by Shepard Fairey of a woman wearing a face-covering with an image of a ballot box For the first time in history, Time replaced its logo with the word "VOTE"[26]
November 16 An image of a distressed face mask designed to look like an American flag American Reality[27]
November 23 A photograph of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris taken on November 7 at their victory speech A Time to Heal[28]
November 30 A photo-illustration by Sean Freeman and Eve Steben of a snowy and icy window The Covid Winter[29]

Vaccines are coming.
So are the hardest months.

December 14 A photograph by Sharif Hamza of Gitanjali Rao Kid of the Year[30]
December 21 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris[31] Person of the Year

2021

Date Persons or topics Caption
January 18 U.S. Capitol under attack[32] Democracy under attack
February 1 Illustration of Joe Biden in the Oval Office[33] Day One
February 15 Amanda Gorman The Black Renaissance[34]
March 1 Six different covers, including Brit Bennett, Telfar Clemens, Dua Lipa, Sanna Marin, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Marcus Rashford.[35] The Next 100
March 15 Women and the Pandemic[36]
March 29 We Are Not Silent
April 12 Twyla Joseph The Lost Year
April 26 Climate Is Everything
May 10 George Floyd Justice Not Yet For All
May 24 "God Bless The Child"
(painting by Jordan Casteel) 		Visions of Equity
June 7 Will Return: The Great Reopening
June 21 We'll Never Be The Same
July 5 The History Wars
July 19 Naomi Osaka It's O.K. To Not Be O.K.
August 2 Various "Help Wanted" signs Rethinking Work
August 23 Jared Isaacman, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux, Christopher Sembroski Three Days That Could Change Humanity
Inside Inspiration4 / The First All-Civilian Trip Into Orbit
September 13 16 bus drivers in New Mexico who delivered lunches to students during the pandemic The People Who Saved A School Year
September 27 Seven different covers The World's Most Influential People
October 11 Jane Goodall The Enduring Hope of Jane Goodall
October 25 Two different covers. Timothée Chalamet and Mark Zuckerberg
November 8 Last call.
November 22 Shannon Brewer The Last Abortion Clinic
December 27 Elon Musk Person of the Year for 2021

2022

Date Persons or topics Caption
January 17 Shonda Rhimes TV's Greatest
January 31 Illustration of Joe Biden in the Oval Office Year One
January 31 Alexei Navalny The Man Putin Fears
January 31 Chloe Kim Solid Gold
February 14 How COVID Ends
February 14 The Crisis that could change Europe forever
February 28 Daniel Motaung Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop
February 28 Orion Jean Kid of the Year
March 14 4 different covers, including Kerry Washington, Kacey Musgraves, Zahra Joya, Amal Clooney Women of the Year
March 14 Illustration of the Flag of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Heroes of Ukraine
March 28 Vitalik Buterin The Prince of Crypto has Concerns
March 28 The Resilience of Ukraine and The Agony of Ukraine
April 11 3 different covers, including Mindy Kaling, BTS, Andy Jassy 100 Most Influential Companies
April 25 Shohei Ohtani It's Sho-time
April 25 Earth, Inc.
May 5 Elon Musk holding the logo of Twitter What everyone gets wrong about Elon Musk
May 5 Olaf Scholz Germany's Moment
May 5 Volodymyr Zelenskyy How Zelensky Leads
Spring Olaf Scholz, Ursula von der Leyen Together Again
May 23 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Lula's Second Act
May 23 Olga Rudenko Witnessing a War
May 23 The Cold Truth
June 8 5 different covers, including Mary J. Blige, Zendaya, Tim Cook, Mía Mottley, Simu Liu Time 100
June 28 Ursula von der Leyen Europe's Power Broker
June 28 When are we going to do something?
July 4 The Oceans Issue
July 25 Where the Abortion Fight Goes Next
July 25 Shinzo Abe Shinzo Abe
July 25 Olena Zelenska Her Private War
August 8 Brittney Griner Brittney Griner and her fight for freedom
August 8 Into the Metaverse
August 22 Hasina Najibi and Raihana Rahimi Stories of Hope, Fear & Resilience
August 22 Katrina Babies
August 22 How to do more good
September 12 Gabriel Boric The New Guard
September 12 Cast of The Rings of Power TV's Biggest Bet
September 12 Serena Williams The Greatest
September 26 Elizabeth II The Queen
September 26 Climate's New Era
October 16 SZA, Keke Palmer, Sydney Sweeney, Farwiza Farhan Time 100 Next
October 16 Valerii Zaluzhnyi The General
October 16 The Defenders
October 24 Abraham Lincoln How our greatest president saved democracy and we can too
October 24 Bukayo Saka Next Generation Leaders
November 7 The Planet We Made
November 21 Democracy
November 21 2022 FIFA World Cup The Dangerous Game
December 5 Steven Spielberg Spielberg.
December 26 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Person of the Year

2023

Date Persons or topics Caption
January 16 The Secrets of Happiness Experts
January 30 Zip It!
February 13 Division & Destiny
February 27 ChatGPT The AI Arms Race is Changing Everything
March 13 Our 100th Year
March 27 The Giza pyramid complex The World's Greatest Places
April 10 Bad Bunny El Mundo De Bad Bunny
April 24 Unprecedented
May 22 Charles III Finally, King
June 12 Ron DeSantis What Ron DeSantis Means for America
July 3 Kim Kardashian The 100 Most Influential Companies
July 24 Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, Margot Robbie, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon Barbie's World
August 14 John Fetterman Out of the Darkness
September 4 Donald Trump Does this Ride Ever End?
September 25 Jalen Hurts Time 100 Next
October 9 Elon Musk Elon Musk's Fight for the Future of AI
October 23 Deion Sanders The Believer
November 6 Jonathan Polin, Rachel Goldberg-Polin The Hostage Nightmare
November 20 The Horror of Gaza
December 4 Sultan Al Jaber Man in the Middle
December 6 Taylor Swift Person of the Year

2024

Date Persons or topics Caption
January 22 Antony Blinken The Envoy
February 12 Issa Rae Working To Close the Racial Wealth Gap
February 26 MrBeast How He Became the Most Watched Person In the World
March 11 Greta Gerwig Women of the Year
March 25 Evan Gershkovich The Fight to Free Evan Gershkovich
April 8 Jane Fonda Jane Fonda's Next Act
April 29 Patrick Mahomes The World's Most Influential People
May 13 Coco Gauff Why the Tennis Star is Playing for Herself Now
May 27 Donald Trump If He Wins
June 10 Selena Gomez The 100 Most Influential Companies
June 24 Donald Trump Convicted in Historic New York Hush-Money Trial
July 15 Melinda French Gates Melinda French Gates Is Going It Alone
August 5 Kamala Harris Why Joe Biden Dropped Out
August 26 Kamala Harris
September 16 Nayib Bukele The Strongman
September 30 Donald Trump In Trouble
October 14 JD Vance The New Right
October 28 Nicola Coughlan Next Generation Leaders
November 11 Your Vote is Safe
November 25 Donald Trump President-elect Donald Trump

References

  1. ^ Ball, Molly (January 9, 2020). "'We've Upped the Ante.' Why Nancy Pelosi Is Going All in Against Trump". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  2. ^ Bennett, Brian (January 16, 2020). "Inside Jared Kushner's Unusual White House Role". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  3. ^ Alter, Charlotte (January 23, 2020). "How Millennial Leaders Will Change America". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  4. ^ Ball, Molly (January 30, 2020). "'You've Got to Have Purpose.' Joe Biden's 2020 Campaign Is the Latest Test in a Lifetime of Loss". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  5. ^ Campbell, Charlie (February 6, 2020). "The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Derail Xi Jinping's Dreams of a Chinese Century". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  6. ^ Felsenthal, Edward (February 20, 2020). "Inside the Making of Time's Equality Issue". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  7. ^ Gibbs, Nancy (March 5, 2020). "Why Time Decided to Revisit a Century of Women and Influence". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  8. ^ "What to Know and What to Do About the Global Pandemic". Time. March 19, 2020. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  9. ^ Gregory, Sean (March 26, 2020). "'Without Empathy, Nothing Works.' Chef José Andrés Wants to Feed the World Through the Pandemic". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  10. ^ Felsenthal, Edward (April 9, 2020). "Front Line Workers Tell Their Own Stories in the New Issue of Time". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  11. ^ Felsenthal, Edward (April 16, 2020). "Why Time Devoted Its Time 100 Issue to Finding Hope". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  12. ^ Park, Alice (April 30, 2020). "Here's How Scientists and Public-Health Experts Recommend the U.S. Gets Back to 'Normal'". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  13. ^ Semuels, Alana (May 7, 2020). "No Income. Major Medical Bills. What Life Is Like for Millions of Americans Facing Financial Ruin Because of the Pandemic". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  14. ^ Edwards, Haley Sweetland (May 14, 2020). "There Are Sensible Ways to Reopen a Country. Then There's America's Approach". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  15. ^ Alter, Charlotte (May 21, 2020). "How COVID-19 Will Shape the Class of 2020 For the Rest of Their Lives". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  16. ^ Altman, Alex (June 4, 2020). "Why The Killing of George Floyd Sparked an American Uprising". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  17. ^ Worland, Justin (June 11, 2020). "America's Long Overdue Awakening to Systemic Racism". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  18. ^ Felsenthal, Edward (June 25, 2020). "America's Critical Moment". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  19. ^ Pine, D.W. (July 8, 2020). "The Story Behind Time's 'One Last Chance' Cover". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  20. ^ Waxman, Olivia (July 21, 2020). "'It's a Picture of Someone Who Knows Who He Is.' The Story Behind Time's Commemorative John Lewis Cover". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  21. ^ Ball, Molly (August 6, 2020). "How COVID-19 Changed Everything About the 2020 Election". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  22. ^ Williams, Pharrell; Harriot, Michael (August 20, 2020). "Pharrell Williams: America's Past and Present Are Racist. We Deserve a Black Future". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  23. ^ Fitzpatrick, Alex; Wolfson, Elijah (September 10, 2020). "COVID-19 Has Killed Nearly 200,000 Americans. How Many More Lives Will Be Lost Before the U.S. Gets It Right?". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  24. ^ Felsenthal, Edward (September 22, 2020). "How We Chose the 2020 Time100". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  25. ^ Ball, Molly (October 8, 2020). "Donald Trump's COVID-19 Diagnosis Is Forcing Him to Face His Personal—and Political—Vulnerability". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  26. ^ Felsenthal, Edward (October 22, 2020). "Time Replaced Its Logo on the Cover For the First Time in Its Nearly 100-Year History. Here's Why We Did It". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  27. ^ Ball, Molly (November 4, 2020). "Even If Joe Biden Wins, He Will Govern in Donald Trump's America". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  28. ^ Ball, Molly (November 12, 2020). "As Donald Trump Refuses to Concede, America Is Caught Between Crisis and Confusion". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  29. ^ Ducharme, Jamie (November 19, 2020). "The U.S. COVID-19 Outbreak Is Worse Than It's Ever Been. Why Aren't We Acting Like It?". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  30. ^ "Meet Time's First-Ever Kid of the Year". Time. December 3, 2020. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  31. ^ Carlisle, Madeleine (December 10, 2020). "Joe Biden on Vaccines, Pardons and Uniting America: The 2020 Time Person of the Year Interview". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  32. ^ Ball, Molly (January 7, 2021). "How Trump's Effort to Steal the Election Tore Apart the GOP—and the Country". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  33. ^ Alter, Charlotte (January 21, 2021). "How President Biden Handles a Divided America Will Define His Legacy". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  34. ^ Ball, Molly (February 4, 2021). "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  35. ^ Felsenthal, Edward (February 17, 2021). "How We Chose the 2021 Time100 Next". Time. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  36. ^ "These Mothers Wanted to Care for Their Kids and Keep Their Jobs. Now They're Suing After Being Fired". Time. March 4, 2021. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
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