Description: The Harvard Political Review is Americas preeminent student journal of politics policy and culture The HPR is written and published entirely by Harvard undergraduates and is housed at the Institute of Politics The HPR was founded in 1969 by a group of Harvard College undergraduates The founders envisioned a publication that allowed students to research write and edit incisive reportage and commentary in a thoughtful nonpartisan forum To this day the HPR does not take magazinewide editorial positions While individual articles have distinct viewpoints the magazine as a whole does not represent any ideology or party Over the past generation the HPR has incubated some of the best political minds in America Among the magazines alumni are Al Gore Jr former Vice President and Nobel Laureate EJ Dionne Jr Washington Post columnist Jonathan Alter former Newsweek Senior Editor and columnist and Jeffrey Sachs Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University In recent years HPR writers have won the National Press Club Award for Outstanding College Political Writing and matriculated to staff positions with Politico The New York Times The Washington Post Reuters Al Jazeera and elsewhere