Harvard Political Review

Winter 2012 issue
Current President	Jonah Simon
Categories	Politics, social issues, culture
Frequency	Quarterly
Founder	Al Gore[1]
Founded	1969
First issue	April 10, 1969; 56 years ago (1969-04-10)
Company	Harvard Institute of Politics
Based in	Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Language	English
Website	www.theharvardpoliticalreview.com
ISSN	0090-1032
OCLC	1784689

TheHarvard Political Review is a quarterly, nonpartisan Americanmagazine andwebsite on politics and public policy founded in 1969 atHarvard University inCambridge, 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 theHarvard Institute of Politics,^[2] and is written, edited, and managed entirely by undergraduates. It accepts submissions from all students atHarvard 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, includingAl 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 theNational Press Club Award for Outstanding College Political Writing.^{[citation needed]}

Currently, the magazine is written, edited, and managed entirely by undergraduates at Harvard. TheHarvard 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 onFox News^[8] and theHuffington 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, formerWhite House speechwriter
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  Nelson Antonio Denis, formerNew York StateAssemblyman, author and film director
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  E. J. Dionne,Washington Post columnist
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  Al Gore,45thVice 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 ofFacebook^[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 ofSilver Lake Partners^[18]
• Lawrence H. White, Economics Professor atGeorge Mason University^[19]
• Andrew S. Effron, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF)

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

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