Assistant Managing Editor Michael Duffy is TIME's Washington Bureau Chief and has been at the center of the magazine's coverage of politics and presidents for 18 years.

Since 1997, Duffy has overseen 20 correspondents, the newsmagazine’s largest news gathering operation. He is the co-author, with Assistant Managing Editor Dan Goodgame, of Marching In Place: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush, published in 1992 by Simon & Schuster. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face the Nation, and is a regular guest on CNN and PBS's Washington Week in Review.

Duffy, 44, joined TIME in 1985 as a Pentagon correspondent and was assigned to cover Congress a year later. Duffy spent six years covering both the Bush and Clinton White House for TIME and in 1995 won the Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. In 1996, as TIME’s national political correspondent, Duffy co-authored 13 cover stories with TIME’s Nancy Gibbs. In 1997, he worked nearly full-time on campaign finance scandals with TIME’s Michael Weisskopf and Viceca Novak, and in March of 1998, the trio won the 1998 Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting, awarded annually by the Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center.

Prior to coming to TIME, he was a staff reporter for Defense Week.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Duffy graduated from Oberlin College in 1980 and lives in suburban Maryland with his wife and three sons.