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Making Sense of a Turbulent Decade

The end of history? More like the start. The 21st century runs on fast-forward, and the only way to keep up is to stop and figure out what really happened More »

Introducing TimeFrames

At a time when news travels fast but understanding can lag far behind, we've created TimeFrames More »
2000: A Nation Divided

The 36-day battle over the Florida ballots was only the first test of faith in our officials and institutions More »
Mayor Bloomberg on Ground Zero

After nine years, construction of the new World Trade Center finally takes off More »
The Men Who Stole the World

Four young programmers nearly brought down the entire entertainment industry. Then they disappeared More »
Faces of the Decade

Famous overnight for the explosive public issues they represented, where are they now, after the media has moved on? More »
Tuned In

After 9/11, the shock wore off. But the news ticker kept cable's pulse pounding More »
In The Arena

No columnist nails every call. Here's one I got wrong — and why I should have known better More »
Where Is Our Deliverance?

Black America expected more from Obama, but the radical agenda of the Struggle is obsolete More »
To Our Readers

The news cycle propels us ever forward. But at the end of a decade, TIME looks back at the stories that mattered most More »
Katrina: A Man- Made Disaster

Five years after the hurricane, we're fixing the levees. But we're still not fixing the coast — or the politics that destroyed it More »
China: Too Little Information

All that talk about China becoming a more open society after the SARS cover-up was driven by wishful thinking More »
Iraq: Missed Steps

The mutual ignorance between Americans and Iraqis at the start of the war would lead to tragedy More »
Shrek: Mr. Influential

Since his 2001 debut, DreamWorks' big green ogre has loomed largest in moviedom's top-grossing format More »
Was It Really So Bad?

For Americans, it seemed like a lost decade. But for much of the world, there was no place to go but up More »
Why Journalists Get the Big Things Wrong

We know how to correct the little errors, but not so much when we whiff the whole story More »
Ground Zero, Then & Now

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz compares the pictures he took in the days after 9/11 to ones he made this year More »
Remnants of Florida's 2000 Recount

Many of the items relating to the controversial election between George W. Bush and Al Gore have been preserved at the State Archives and the Old Capitol Museum in Tallahassee More »
Out of the Ashes

A look at where the towers once stood — 'then and now' — by photographer Joel Meyerowitz, who began who began photographing the site shortly after the September 11th attack More »
Video: TimeFrames: The Cultural Fog of War

Bobby Ghosh recalls his time as TIME Baghdad bureau chief and how the mutual ignorance between Americans and Iraqis led to false assumptions that ended in tragedy More »
Video: An Election Day that Shook the Nation

TIME Editor-at-Large David Von Drehle describes how events in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election sent shockwaves through the American psyche More »
Video: Lexicon: New Words Born This Decade

Locavore? Staycation? TIME Editor-at-Large Belinda Luscombe looks at common terms that didn't exist 10 years ago. More »
Reckoning with a Disaster

While the Army Corps of Engineers shores up the levee system to protect New Orleans from another hurricane, the natural protection of wetlands continues to be lost at an alarming rate More »
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