The Harvard Political Review is America’s preeminent undergraduate journal of politics and public policy. The HPR is written and published entirely by Harvard undergraduates, with help from the Institute of Politics.

The first issue of the HPR was published in April 1969

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 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.

Over the past generation, the HPR has incubated some of the best political minds in America. Among the magazine’s alumni are Al Gore, Jr. (former Vice President and Nobel Laureate), E.J. Dionne, Jr. (Washington Post columnist), Jonathan Alter (Newsweek Senior Editor and columnist), and Jeffrey Sachs (Director of the Columbia Earth Institute). In recent years, HPR writers have won the National Press Club Award for Outstanding College Political Writing.