The magazine routinely puts a different image on the cover in America, sometimes with a more series slant, sometimes not.
For its December 5 issue, Time Magazine is running a cover story in the U.S. titled "Why Anxiety Is Good for You." Reassuring perhaps for stressed out readers years into a recession. But therein lies in the controversy, because the same issue of the magazine published elsewhere in the world features an attention-grabbing close up of a gas-masked protester in Egypt with the much less comforting headline “Revolution Redux.”