The Politic: The Yale College Journal of Politics is a bi-monthly Yale University student publication that traces its roots to 1947, when the Yale Political Journal: A Magazine of Student Opinion was founded. It was revived in 1979 as the Yale Political Monthly by future political commentator and historian Robert Kagan, and known alternately as Yale Political Magazine during the next twenty years.[1] In addition to Kagan, past editors-in-chief include Fareed Zakaria and Gideon Rose.[2] In its modern incarnation, The Politic was established in the spring of 2001 as a quarterly journal, inspired by the desire for undergraduates’ participation in debates about the 2000 presidential election and launched as a means to keep the greater Yale community informed about the most important local, national, and global political issues. The Politic features articles and commentary from students, academics, and prominent national politicians and is able to empower students by providing them access to the experience and insights of some of the most prominent political leaders and thinkers of our time. Building upon Yale's rich political heritage, The Politic strives to promote greater understanding and cooperation between academia and the world of politics. As of the current (2009-2010) executive board, "The Politic" is published six times per year. [edit] Current Staff - Editors-in-Chief: Edward Fishman (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) & Mathew Andrews (Dallas, Texas)
- Features Section Editors: Jaclyn Delligatti (Hiscksville, New York) & Olivia Dowling (Corpus Christi, Texas)
- International Section Editors: Gabriel Perlman (London, England) & Leopold Wallo (Yorkville, California)
- National Section Editors: Alexander Kayfetz-Gaum (Goleta, California) & Nick Rugoff (Los Angeles, California)
- Publisher: Samuel Breidbart (Woodbury, New York)
- Directors of Development: Andrea Levien (New York, New York), Jefferson Warren (Memphis, Tennessee), & Joseph Mensah (Avon, Connecticut)
- Editors Emeritus: Avi Kupfer (Chicago, Illinois), Matthew Ellison (Charleston, South Carolina), Jeanne Hefez (Paris, France), Maggie Goodlander (Nashua, New Hampshire) Teddy Bunzel (New York, New York), Bradley Gallagher (Atlanta, Georgia), Mike Schmidt (Bronx, New York), Tom Kidd (Greenwich, Connecticut), and Michael Camarda (Tallahassee, Florida)
[edit] Recent features Notable figures recently interviewed or who have contributed opinion pieces to The Politic include the following: [edit] Government Officials - Lamar Alexander, U.S. Senator, Tennessee
- John Ashcroft, then-U.S. Attorney General
- Bob Barr, former U.S. Representative, Georgia
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, New York
- Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Connecticut
- John Bolton, then-United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- David Boren, former U.S. Senator, Oklahoma
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. National Security Advisor
- Jeb Bush, former Governor, Florida
- John Danforth, former U.S. Senator, Missouri
- Mark Dayton, then-U.S. Senator, Minnesota
- Tom Daschle, former U.S. Senator, South Dakota
- Howard Dean, former Governor, Vermont
- Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Representative, Connecticut
- Michael Dukakis, former Governor, Massachusetts
- Gerald Ford, former President of the United States
- Barney Frank, U.S. Representative, Massachusetts
- Bill Frist, then-U.S. Senator, Tennessee
- Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor, New York City
- Charles Hill, former minister in the U.S. Foreign Service and adviser to George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and Ronald Reagan
- Martin Indyk, then-U.S. Ambassador to Israel
- John Kerry, U.S. Senator, Massachusetts
- Mark Kirk, U.S. Representative, Illinois
- William Kissick, U.S. health policy official
- Tom Lantos, U.S. Representative, California
- Lee Wing Tat, member, Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Jim Leach, then-U.S. Representative, Iowa
- Joe Lieberman, U.S. Senator, Connecticut
- Denise Majette, then-U.S. Representative-Elect, Georgia
- David Mulford, U.S. Ambassador to India
- Buck McKeon, U.S. Representative, California
- Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator, Florida
- Barack Obama, then-Senator, Illinois
- William Odom, former Director, National Security Agency
- John O'Leary, then-U.S. Ambassador to Chile
- Bill Owens, then-Governor, Colorado
- Ron Paul, U.S. Representative, Texas
- Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to China
- Janet Reno, former U.S. Attorney General
- Dennis Ross, director for policy planning, U.S. State Department
- Robert Rubin, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Rick Santorum, then-U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania
- Donna Shalala, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Philip R. Sharp, former U.S. Representative, Indiana
- Chris Shays, U.S. Representative, Connecticut
- Arlen Specter, U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania
- John E. Sununu, U.S. Senator, New Hampshire
- J.C. Watts, then-U.S. Representative, Oklahoma
- Larry Welch, former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
- Anthony Williams, then-Mayor, Washington, D.C.
- R. James Woolsey, Jr., former former Director of Central Intelligence
- Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico
[edit] Political Advocacy - Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Roger Clegg, President, Center for Equal Opportunity
- Todd Gitlin, Columbia University
- Tom Hayden, anti-war and civil rights activist and California politician
- Ned Lamont, former U.S. Senate candidate
- Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and presidential candidate
- Gary Orfield, Harvard University
- Nadine Strossen, president, American Civil Liberties Union
- Jim Wallis, Christian writer and liberal political activist
[edit] Journalism [edit] Academia - Akhil Amar, Yale College and Yale Law School
- David Boaz, Cato Institute
- Amy Chua, Yale Law School
- Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School
- Faisal Devji, The New School
- Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School
- Boaz Ganor, International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- Daniel T. Griswold, Cato Institute
- Rohan Gunaratna, Nanyang Technological University
- Richard Haass, president, Council on Foreign Relations
- Paul Kennedy, Yale University
- Harold Koh, Dean, Yale Law School
- Richard Levin, President, Yale University
- Michael Mandelbaum, School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
- John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago
- Joseph Nye, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
- Roger Pilon, Cato Institute
- Ian Shapiro, Yale University
- Robert Shiller, Yale University
- Martin Shubik, Yale University
- Jonathan Spence, Yale University
- James Tobin, Yale University
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