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The Politic: The Yale College Journal of Politics is a quarterly 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 Yale Political Monthly and known alternately as Yale Political Magazine during the next twenty years. Finally The Politic was established in the spring of 2001, 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, professors, 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.

• Editor-in-Chief: Maggie Goodlander (Nashua, New Hampshire)
• Managing Editors: Sam Yellen (Buffalo, New York), Avi Kumpfer
• Features Section Editor: Becca Yergin
• National Section Editor: Matthew Ellison
• International Section Editor: Chris Gombeski
• Publisher: Elisabeth Leake
• Director of Development: David Wheelock
• Editors Emeritus: Teddy Bunzel (New York, New York) and Bradley Gallagher (Atlanta, Georgia), Mike Schmidt (Bronx, New York, Tom Kidd (Greenwich, Connecticut), Michael Camarda (Tallahassee, Florida)

Notable figures recently interviewed or who have contributed opinion pieces to The Politic include the following:

• 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
• 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
• William Odom, former Director, National Security Agency
• John O'Leary, then-U.S. Ambassador to Chile
• Bill Owens, then-Governor, Colorado
• Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to China
• Janet Reno, former U.S. Attorney General
• 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 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

• 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

• Bill Emmott, The Economist
• Claudia Rosett, investigative reporter
• Oliver Stone, film director
• Judy Woodruff, CNN
• Gary Younge, The Guardian
• Fareed Zakaria, editor, Newsweek International

• Akhil Amar, Yale College and Yale Law School
• David Boaz, Cato Institute
• Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School
• Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School
• Daniel T. Griswold, Cato Institute
• 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
• Joseph Nye, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
• Roger Pilon, Cato Institute
• Ian Shapiro, Yale University
• Robert Shiller, Yale University
• Jonathan Spence, Yale University

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