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The ''Harvard Political Review'' is a quarterly, nonpartisan American
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on politics and public policy founded in 1969 at
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. It covers domestic and international affairs and political events, as well as political discourse at Harvard. It also conducts interviews with political figures and experts. It is a publication of the
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, and is written, edited, and managed entirely by Harvard undergraduates, and accepts submissions from all students at
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"regardless of concentration, experience, or political leaning."


History


Founding

The magazine was founded in 1969 by a group of Harvard undergraduates, including
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, 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. At times it has had to fight for its editorial independence. In recent years, HPR writers have won the
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Award for Outstanding College Political Writing.


Today

Currently, the magazine is written, edited, and managed entirely by undergraduates at Harvard. The ''Harvard Political Review'' also operates a daily website. 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. Since the fall of 2010, the magazine has published an annual report on the U.S. federal budget. Its editors have been featured on
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''.


Notable alumni

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, former
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Harvard Political Review. Winter 1979.
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Other notable HPR alumni include: *
Linda Bilmes Linda J. Bilmes (born 1960) holds the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer Chair in Public Policy and Public Finance at Harvard University. She is a full-time faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School where she teaches public policy, budget ...
, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University *
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, Co-founder of
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* Lawrence H. White, Economics Professor at
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Cox, Janice. "Adams Resident Wins Capitalism Prize"
''The Harvard Crimson''. Aug. 13, 1976.
* Andrew S. Effron, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF)


See also

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Columbia Political Review The ''Columbia Political Review'' is Columbia University's undergraduate multi-partisan political magazine. The ''Columbia Political Review'' is the official publication of the Columbia Political Union, the largest political organization on campus ...
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Brown Political Review The ''Brown Political Review'' (''BPR'') is a quarterly, student-run political magazine and website at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It covers the politics of regional, domestic and international affairs, the political culture a ...
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Berkeley Political Review The ''Berkeley Political Review'' is a semesterly, nonpartisan political magazine and website founded at the University of California, Berkeley shortly after September 11th, 2001. Through printed publications and multimedia projects, the ''Review ...
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The Brown Spectator ''The Brown Spectator'' was a student-run journal of conservative and libertarian political writing at Brown University. It was originally the product of a student independent project. It was first published in 1984 "as a two-page offering of stud ...
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The Stanford Review ''The Stanford Review'' (also known as ''The Review'') is a student-run newspaper that serves Stanford University in Stanford, California. It was founded in 1987 by Peter Thiel and Norman Book. History In 1987, after around 500 students partici ...


References


External links


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