TPM is 24 Years Old

Today is the anniversary of this site, founded 24 years ago today.

It’s always been one of the features of this site’s history that these anniversaries come right on the heels of elections – so either another milestone amidst the reverie and relief of good results or a reminder of the long view in the daze of bad ones. And it’s no accident. The site literally began as an effort to cover an election that was already over, or that was supposed to be over. That wasn’t the cause of it precisely. I had it hazily in my mind to do something like it. There were even a few false starts at it in the few months before I did. But it was the trigger. I had planned to spend a week with my then-girlfriend in New Haven after the 2000 election was concluded. But the election turned out not to be over. The story was fast-moving, couldn’t wait on daily publishing schedules, let alone the weeks long ones at my day job at The American Prospect, where I wasn’t going to have free rein in any case. So I just dove in and it never stopped.

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