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THE 2019 TIME 100

Making the magazine: assistant editor Merrill Fabry, managing editor Ratu Kamlani, TIME 100 editorial director Dan Macsai, photo editor Dilys Ng and assistant art director Jennifer Prandato

NEAR THE END OF TARA WESTOVER’S breakout memoir, Educated, she pauses on a timeless question, “Who writes history?” Decades from now when we look back at this era, it’s a fair bet that the answer will be many of the people on this year’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Among them is

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