The TIME Magazine political team is an award winning team of reporters for TIME Magazine the most widely read news magazine in the US. Michael Duffy Please expand. Mike Allen Please expand. Jay Carney Joe Klein Perry Bacon Perry Bacon, Washington correspondent. Bacon joined TIME Magazine in September 2002. He also contributes articles on diplomacy and education. While covering politics for TIME he wrote about the presidential runs of John Kerry and Howard Dean. Bacon grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. Bacon graduated Yale with a major in Political Science. Bacon has also worked for and contributed to the Louisville Courier-Journal, National Journal and the Washington Post. Karen Tumulty Pleas expand.