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Yale Political Union, the Glossary

The Yale Political Union (YPU) is a debate society at Yale University, founded in 1934 by Alfred Whitney Griswold.^[1]

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Akhil Reed Amar

Akhil Reed Amar (born September 6, 1958) is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in constitutional law.

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Alfred Whitney Griswold

Alfred Whitney Griswold (October 27, 1906 – April 19, 1963) was an American historian and educator.

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Austan Goolsbee

Austan Dean Goolsbee (born August 18, 1969) is an American economist and writer.

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Avik Roy

Avik Roy (Bengali: অভীক রায়) is an American conservative commentator and activist.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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The Berkeley Forum, referred to simply as the Forum, is a prominent, non-partisan student organization at the University of California, Berkeley. Yale Political Union and Berkeley Forum are student debating societies.

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Bob Taft

Robert Alphonso Taft III (born January 8, 1942) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 67th governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007.

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Brian Carney (editorialist)

Brian M. Carney is a senior executive at Rivada Networks.

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Brothers in Unity

Brothers in Unity (formally, the Society of Brothers in Unity) is an undergraduate literary and debating society at Yale University. Yale Political Union and Brothers in Unity are student debating societies.

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Cambridge Union

The Cambridge Union Society, also known as the Cambridge Union, is a debating and free speech society in Cambridge, England, and the largest society in the University of Cambridge. Yale Political Union and Cambridge Union are student debating societies.

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Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.

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City Journal

City Journal is a public policy magazine and website, published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, that covers a range of topics on urban affairs, such as policing, education, housing, and other issues.

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Clash of Civilizations

The "Clash of Civilizations" is a thesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post–Cold War world.

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Club for Growth

The Club for Growth is a 501(c)(4) fiscally conservative organization active in the United States, with an agenda focused on tax cuts and other economic policy issues.

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Council of Economic Advisers

The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the president of the United States on economic policy.

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Dana Milbank

Dana Timothy Milbank (born April 27, 1968) is an American author and columnist for The Washington Post.

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David Boren

David Lyle Boren (born April 21, 1941) is a retired American lawyer and politician from Oklahoma.

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David Frum

David Jeffrey Frum (born June 1960) is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

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David McIntosh (politician)

David Martin McIntosh (born June 8, 1958) is an American attorney and Republican Party politician who served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 2001.

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David P. Calleo

David Patrick Calleo (July 19, 1934 – June 15, 2023) was an American political scientist, based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he held the titles of Dean Acheson Professor and University Professor.

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Democratic Party of New Mexico

The Democratic Party of New Mexico (DPNM) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Editorial board at The Wall Street Journal

The editorial board at The Wall Street Journal is the editorial board of the New York City newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

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Edwin Meese

Edwin Meese III (born December 2, 1931) is an American attorney, law professor, author and member of the Republican Party who served in Ronald Reagan's gubernatorial administration (1967–1974), the Reagan presidential transition team (1980–81), and the Reagan administration (1981–1985).

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Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown College (informally Etown) is a private college in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

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Environmental Defense Fund

Environmental Defense Fund or EDF (formerly known as Environmental Defense) is a United States-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group.

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Evan Wolfson

Evan Wolfson (born February 4, 1957) is an attorney and gay rights advocate.

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Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (born 20 January 1964) is an Indian-born American journalist, political commentator, and author.

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Federalist Society

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (FedSoc) is an American conservative and libertarian legal organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

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Firing Line (TV program)

Firing Line is an American public affairs television show.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Fred Krupp

Fred Krupp has been the president of Environmental Defense Fund, a U.S.-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group since 1984.

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Freedom to Marry

Freedom to Marry was the national bipartisan organization dedicated to winning marriage for same-sex couples in the United States.

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George Pataki

George Elmer Pataki (born June 24, 1945) is an American politician who served as the 53rd Governor of New York from 1995 to 2006.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Gilt Groupe

Gilt is an American online shopping launched in 2007.

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Grover J. Rees III

Grover Joseph Rees III (born October 11, 1951) is a Louisiana lawyer who served as chief justice of the High Court of American Samoa from 1986 to 1991, and as the first United States Ambassador to East Timor from 2002 to 2006.

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H. Bradford Westerfield

Holt Bradford Westerfield (March 7, 1928 – January 19, 2008) was a Damon Wells Professor of International Studies and professor of political science at Yale University.

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Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry Luce

Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated magazines.

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J. Glenn Beall Jr.

John Glenn Beall Jr. (June 19, 1927March 24, 2006) was an American Republican politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Maryland who served in both chambers of the United States Congress for one term each, a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Maryland's 6th congressional district from 1969 to 1971, and as a member of the United States Senate from 1971 to 1977.

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J. Harvie Wilkinson III

James Harvie Wilkinson III (born September 29, 1944) is an American jurist who serves as a United States circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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James L. Buckley

James Lane Buckley (March 9, 1923 – August 18, 2023) was an American politician and judge who served in the United States Senate as a member of the Conservative Party of New York State in the Republican caucus from 1971 to 1977 and additionally held multiple positions within the Reagan administration.

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Jerry Edwin Smith

Jerry Edwin Smith (born November 7, 1946) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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Jim O'Neill (investor)

Jim O'Neill is an American science and technology investor and former official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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John Avlon

John Phillips Avlon (born January 19, 1973) is an American journalist, political commentator, and Democratic political candidate.

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John Bolton

John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama.

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John O'Leary (ambassador)

John O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton.

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John Watson Lungstrum

John Watson Lungstrum (born November 2, 1945) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.

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John Wertheim

John V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, Johns, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan L. Zittrain (born December 24, 1969) is an American professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School.

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Katherine Tai

Katherine Chi Tai (born March 18, 1974) is an American attorney serving as the 19th United States Trade Representative since March 18, 2021.

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Keith Ferrazzi

Keith Ferrazzi is an American author and entrepreneur.

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Kevin P. Ryan

Kevin P. Ryan is an American investor and entrepreneur who has founded several New York–based businesses, including Gilt Groupe, Business Insider and MongoDB.

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L. Brent Bozell Jr.

Leo Brent Bozell Jr. (January 15, 1926 – April 15, 1997) was an American conservative activist and Catholic writer, and former United States Merchant Mariner.

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Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical novels.

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Linonian Society

Linonia is a literary and debating society founded in 1753 at Yale University. Yale Political Union and Linonian Society are student debating societies.

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Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer Jr. (June 26, 1914 – March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

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Maggie Gallagher

Margaret Gallagher (born September 14, 1960) is an American writer, socially conservative commentator, and activist.

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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (renamed in 1981 from the International Center for Economic Policy Studies) is an American conservative think tank focused on domestic policy and urban affairs.

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Marvin Krislov

Marvin Krislov (born August 24, 1960) is the eighth and current president of Pace University in New York.

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Matthias Storme

Matthias Edward Storme (born 1959) is a Belgian lawyer, academic and conservative philosopher.

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McGeorge Bundy

McGeorge "Mac" Bundy (March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996) was an American academic who served as the U.S. National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 through 1966.

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Meghan Clyne

Meghan Clyne is a writer in Washington, D.C., with pieces having appeared in The Weekly Standard, the New York Sun ('05-'06), and the National Review.

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Michael J. Astrue

Michael James Astrue (born October 1, 1956) is an American lawyer and, under the pen name A. M. Juster, a poet and critic.

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Michael John Knowles (born March 18, 1990) is an American conservative political commentator, author, and media host.

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National Organization for Marriage

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is an American non-profit political organization established to work against the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.

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National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is a social welfare organization based in Washington, D.C., that advocates for the reform of marijuana laws in the United States regarding both medical and non-medical use.

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National Review

National Review is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.

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National Security Advisor (United States)

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (NSA),The National Security Advisor and Staff: p. 1.

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Neal S. Wolin

Neal Steven Wolin (born December 9, 1961) is the CEO of the corporate advisory firm Brunswick Group, an equity partner of Data Collective, a board partner of Social Capital, and a limited partner advisor of Nyca Partners.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States.

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Oxford Union

The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to as the Oxford Union, is a debating society in the city of Oxford, England, whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford. Yale Political Union and Oxford Union are student debating societies.

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Patrick F. Philbin

Patrick F. Philbin is an American lawyer who served as Deputy Counsel to the President and Deputy Assistant to the President in the Office of White House Counsel in the Donald J. Trump administration.

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Patrick J. Bumatay

Patrick Joseph Bumatay (born February 14, 1978) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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Paul Gottfried

Paul Edward Gottfried (born November 21, 1941) is an American paleoconservative political philosopher, historian, and writer.

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Peter Beinart

Peter Alexander Beinart (born February 28, 1971) is an American liberal columnist, journalist, and political commentator.

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Peter Keisler

Peter Douglas Keisler (born October 13, 1960) is an American lawyer whose 2006 nomination by President George W. Bush to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit became embroiled in partisan controversy.

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Policy debate

Policy debate is an American form of debate competition in which teams of two usually advocate for and against a resolution that typically calls for policy change by the United States federal government.

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Potter Stewart

Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1958 to 1981.

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R. David Edelman

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Ray Price (speechwriter)

Raymond Kissam Price Jr. (May 6, 1930 – February 13, 2019) was an American writer who was the chief speechwriter for U.S. President Richard Nixon, working on both inaugural addresses, his resignation speech, and Gerald Ford's pardon speech.

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Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser (born February 23, 1955) is an American journalist, biographer and historian.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Richard Posner

Richard Allen Posner (born January 11, 1939) is an American legal scholar who served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017.

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Richard S. Arnold

Richard Sheppard Arnold (March 26, 1936 – September 23, 2004) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas and then a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

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Robert C. Lieberman

Robert C. Lieberman (born September 26, 1964) is an American political scientist and the former provost of the Johns Hopkins University.

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Robert L. Pollock

Robert L. Pollock is a board certified internal medicine physician in New York.

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Robert Taft Jr.

Robert Alphonso Taft Jr. (February 26, 1917 – December 7, 1993) was an American politician.

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Rumpus Magazine

Rumpus is a tabloid publication produced six times a year by students at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Samuel P. Huntington

Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic.

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The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Political_Union

Also known as Party of the Right (Yale), The Yale Political Union.

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