Any place to write about politics and/or international relations

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>Are there any professional publications out there that seriously consider college student submissions on politics? I've talked to my college newspaper but they have said that they only accept submissions with direct links to the local college community. Newspapers ranging from the NYT to local papers with less than 50,000 in circulation have turned out to be too selective--only one of my essays has been published in an actual newspaper (Baltimore Sun, when I was in high school). And I doubt it's because of my writing skills--my submissions have been accepted at the Harvard Crimson, U of Notre Dame, and UVA, only to be rejected when they see I don't have an @college.harvard.edu or another email affiliated with the U.</p>

<p>I'm a freshman at a not-so-elite school, so I really don't have much of a resume for internships. And if I can't get published, I can't build a resume.</p>

<p>I'm not looking to join papers with extremely poor circulation figures and/or editorial standards, like the Undergraduate Times.</p>

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<p>Here are some links to student journals. You can check them out yourself as to whether they accept submissions from outside the universities at which they are published.
<a href=“http://www.apsanet.org/content_36367.cfm”>http://www.apsanet.org/content_36367.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.iapss.org/index.php/iapss-news-and-opportunities/iapss-news-and-opportunities/journals-for-undergraduate-and-graduate-students”>http://www.iapss.org/index.php/iapss-news-and-opportunities/iapss-news-and-opportunities/journals-for-undergraduate-and-graduate-students&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks, but the links point to lists of academic journals, rather than publications specializing in shorter essays on more current events. </p>

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<p>why do you want to get published?</p>

<p>have you considered focusing on your career toward the realm of actually doing politics or international relations instead of just writing about it?</p>

<p>maybe you would like a state department internship? they even have distance internships. or a local elected official or the local office of your representatives in the house/senate?</p>

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<p>Blog. </p>