Harvard Political Review

Harvard Political Review

Winter 2012 issue
Current President	Liana McGhee
Categories	Politics, social issues, culture
Frequency	Quarterly
Founder	Al Gore[1]
Founded	1969
First issue	April 10, 1969; 55 years ago (1969-04-10)
Company	Harvard Institute of Politics
Based in	Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Language	English
Website	www.harvardpolitics.com
ISSN	0090-1032
OCLC	1784689

The Harvard Political Review is a quarterly, nonpartisan American magazine and website on politics and public policy founded in 1969 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It covers domestic and international affairs and political events and political discourse at Harvard. It also conducts interviews with political figures and experts. It is a publication of the Harvard Institute of Politics,^[2] and is written, edited, and managed entirely by undergraduates. It accepts submissions from all students at Harvard College "regardless of concentration, experience, or political leaning," according to its website.^[3]

The magazine was founded in 1969 by a group of Harvard undergraduates, including Al Gore,^[1] as a publication that allowed students to research, write, and edit political commentary in a thoughtful, non-partisan forum. To this day, the HPR does not take magazine-wide editorial positions. While individual articles have distinct viewpoints, the magazine as a whole does not represent any ideology or party.

The magazine was formed during the era of student protests in the late 1960s and witnessed several leadership and format changes in its first few years of existence.^[4] At times it has had to fight for its editorial independence.^[5] In recent years, HPR writers have won the National Press Club Award for Outstanding College Political Writing.^{[citation needed]}

Currently, the magazine is written, edited, and managed entirely by undergraduates at Harvard. The Harvard Political Review also operates a daily website.^[6]

The magazine runs interviews with political figures, along with book reviews, humor pieces, and student opinion articles on domestic and world affairs. Each issue features a number of articles organized around a central theme or topic.^{[citation needed]}

Since the fall of 2010, the magazine has published an annual report on the U.S. federal budget.^[7] Its editors have been featured on Fox News^[8] and the Huffington Post.^[9][10]

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  Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg View columnist^[11]
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  Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York^[12]
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  Andrei Cherny, former White House speechwriter
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  Nelson Antonio Denis, former New York State Assemblyman, author and film director
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  E. J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist
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  Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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  Penny Pritzker, United States Secretary of Commerce^[13]
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  Dani Rodrik, Institute for Advanced Study professor.^[13]
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  Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor, The Earth Institute director^[14]
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  Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook^[15]
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  Tony West, United States Associate Attorney General^[16]

Other notable HPR alumni include:

• Linda Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University^[17]
• Glenn Hutchins, Co-founder of Silver Lake Partners^[18]
• Lawrence H. White, Economics Professor at George Mason University^[19]
• Andrew S. Effron, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF)

• Columbia Political Review
• Brown Political Review
• Berkeley Political Review
• The Brown Spectator
• The Stanford Review

• Harvard Political Review Homepage