Joe Klein is an American political commentator and author. He is best known for his work as a columnist for Time magazine and his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Klein is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In April 2006 he published Politics Lost, a book on what he calls the "pollster–consultant industrial complex." He has also written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life, and Rolling Stone.
Klein at the 2011 Time 100 Gala
Klein at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2016
Time is an American news magazine based in New York City. It was published weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March 2020, it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce.
The cover of the first issue of Time on March 3, 1923, featuring Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon
Time's red X covers, including (left to right), Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Osama bin Laden