To help make the selection, TIME asked earlier honorees whom they would select as the world's most influential people. This week's installment:
EVAN WOLFSON The same-sex-marriage advocate is executive director of Freedom to Marry Senator Russ Feingold should be on the list for putting forward values and policies before the American people and offering Democrats a chance to return to the clarity and authenticity needed to regain power. From his opposition to the war in Iraq to his support for ending the exclusion of committed same-sex couples from marriage, he is emerging as the one to watch as the political pendulum...