Political Blog Talking Points Memo Launches TPMCafe.com

(PRWEB) June 2, 2005

Talking Points Memo (TPM) is one of the most widely-read and cited political blogs on the Internet with a monthly audience of over half a million readers. On Tuesday May 31, TPM launched TPMCafe.com, a community of blogs and reader discussion areas which serves as a meeting place to discuss politics, culture and public life in the United States. The site hosts a general interest group blog (The Coffee House) as well as topic-focused group blogs on US foreign policy (America Abroad) and the squeeze on America's middle class (Warren Reports). Guest-blogging on week one is former Senator and 2004 vice-presidential candidate John Edwards.

Site contributors include (Coffee House) Greg Anrig, Steve Clemons, David Gelber, Todd Gitlin, Reed Hundt, Ed Kilgore, Karen Kornbluh, Annie Lamott, Michael Lind, Josh Marshall, Judith Shulevitz, Mark Schmitt and Marshall Wittman. (America Abroad) Daniel Benjamin of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Ivo Daalder of Brookings, John Ikenberry of Princeton University, James Lindsay of the Council on Foreign Relations, George Packer of The New Yorker and Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The Warren Reports blog is hosted by Professor Elizabeth Warren of Harvard University.

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