Harvard Political Review

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, as well as political discourse at Harvard. It also conducts interviews with political figures and experts. It is a publication of the Harvard Institute of Politics, and is written, edited, and managed entirely by Harvard undergraduates, and accepts submissions from all students at Harvard College "regardless of concentration, experience, or political leaning."

History

Founding

The magazine was founded in 1969 by a group of Harvard undergraduates, including Al Gore, 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 National Press Club 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 Fox News and the ''Huffington Post''.

Notable alumni

File:Alter1.jpg, Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg View columnist
File:Bharara,_Preet_Headshot.jpg, Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
File:AndreiCherny.jpg, Andrei Cherny, former White House speechwriter
File:Nelson Denis.jpg, Nelson Antonio Denis, former New York State Assemblyman, author and film director
File:EJ Dionne.JPG, E. J. Dionne, ''Washington Post'' columnist
File:Al Gore at SapphireNow 2010 cropped.jpg, Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
File:Penny Pritzker official photograph.jpg, Penny Pritzker, United States Secretary of CommerceHarvard Political Review. Winter 1979.
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File:Dani Rodrik AB 02.jpg, Dani Rodrik, Institute for Advanced Study professor.
File:Jeffrey D. Sachs - World Economic Forum on East Asia 2011.jpg, Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor, The Earth Institute director
File:Sheryl Sandberg 2013.jpg, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
File:TonyWest-Official DOJ Portrait.jpg, Tony West, United States Associate Attorney General

Other notable HPR alumni include:
* Linda Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University
*Glenn Hutchins, Co-founder of Silver Lake Partners
* Lawrence H. White, Economics Professor at George Mason UniversityCox, 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

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

References

External links

Harvard Political Review Homepage

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Political magazines published in the United States
Quarterly magazines published in the United States
Student magazines published in the United States
Harvard University publications
Magazines established in 1969
Magazines published in Boston