[1] In addition to Kagan, past Editors-in-Chief include author and CNN host Fareed Zakaria and Foreign Affairs Editor-in-Chief Gideon Rose.

At the time, Kagan was "frustrated that things tended to be one sided" at Yale, and he sought to provide a non-partisan platform for debate on campus.

Past guests have included John Dickerson, Susan Glasser, Christiane Amanpour, Norman Ornstein, Jake Sullivan, Salman Rushdie, Jeffrey Sachs, Ken Burns, Jesse Jackson, Retired Gen. James Cartwright, and Malcolm Gladwell.

The Politic also conducts interviews with a range of prominent public figures such as Fareed Zakaria, Ezra Klein, Mark Cuban, Christiane Amanpour, Frank Bruni, Malcolm Gladwell, Jeb Bush, Dan Ariely, Jonathan Haidt, Ron Paul, Jeffrey Toobin, David Brooks, Ben Carson, Jake Sullivan, Rush Holt, Jr., Martin O'Malley, Michael Dukakis, Russ Feingold, Gretchen Carlson, Gina Raimondo, and Jake Tapper.

The Politic interviewed four 2020 presidential candidates: Cory Booker,[10] Pete Buttigieg,[11] Amy Klobuchar,[12] and Andrew Yang.