Among this morning’s new jobs numbers, this one: The labor force participation rate fell to 63.6 percent, the lowest level since 1981.

We’re launching a new weekly feature this morning at TPM. The TPM Interview.

Today, David Taintor speaks to New York Magazine reporter and columnist Frank Rich about what life has been like in the year since he walked away from the New York Times, and about why civil political discourse might not be all it’s cracked up to be.

Someone interesting you think we should be speaking to for future editions? Let us know.

How to make sense of the jobs report that will land first thing tomorrow morning.

Eleven Democratic state party chairs are pushing to include support for gay marriage in the 2012 national Democratic platform.

Anti-tank grenades have been found at the site of the massacre by neo-Nazi and border vigilante JT Ready.

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng just called in to a congressional hearing on his case. They put him on speakerphone.

Obama: The bin Laden raid was the “longest 40 minutes of my life.”

Donald Rumsfeld now says the raid to nab Osama bin Laden was not a tough call, but five years ago Rumsfeld pulled the plug at the last minute on a Navy Seal raid against high-value al Qaeda targets.

Romney names state campaign directors for Iowa and New Hampshire.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce doing direct mail in Indiana in support of Sen. Richard Lugar in the GOP primary.