Monday morning magazine roundup

It’s tip-off time according to Time’s gimmicky “Baracketology” cover, which plots the president’s Republican challengers on an NCAA Basketball Tournament-style grid--with instructions to “fill in the blanks and send us your picks” for posting in the coming weeks. Inside, Turkey is named the Middle East’s “new power player,” while Fareed Zakaria wonders “what happened to conservative thinking.”

Over at Newsweek, it’s jovial Bill Clinton tallying 14 ways to save America’s jobs (“we could put a million people to work retrofitting buildings all over America”). Highlighted on top: “The deadly hunt for Zawahiri” and “Inside John Galliano’s meltdown.”

The New Yorker has fun with dog owners who look like their dogs and vice versa on the cover, with inside features including “Busting a Billionaire,” about the biggest insider-trading case in history and what it says about the failure to hold Wall Street accountable, and “Gaga vs. Beyonce,” which concludes that Gaga offers “a firmer guiding hand” than the “quiet meritocrat” Beyonce.

New York’s summer double-issue somehow ties together beer, ice cream and voyeurism, and calls out “the stinkiest block in New York” (“the stretch of Broome Street between Allen and Eldridge”).

Finally, Billboard reports that Pitbull is “going global” on its cover, what with his “big new album, major tour, and blue chip partners.” Also showcased is XL’s Richard Russell, enjoying his best year ever with Vampire Weekend, Dizzee, The Prodigy and Adele.