Time’s Person of the Year 2023 shortlist includes Taylor Swift, Barbie and Putin

Time magazine released its shortlist for its perennial Person of the Year selection. The annual honor began in 1927 when Charles Lindbergh received the distinction following his solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Since then, people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Pope Francis and climate activist Greta Thunberg have received the honor, along with several world leaders and every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt (except Gerald Ford). The magazine has also swerved in the past and awarded “concepts,” like “The Silence Breakers” who started the MeToo movement a...