Editors’ Blog - 2011
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07.14.11 | 5:22 pm
Back To Work

Deal announced this evening to end the state government shutdown in Minnesota.

07.14.11 | 6:10 pm
How Do You Think Debt Ceiling Crisis Will End?

Take our survey here. Not scientific. But genuinely curious to see what people think is going to happen. Click here to take it.

07.15.11 | 4:11 am
The Crackdown on Voting, Pt. 1

As I wrote earlier, we’re going to make the nationwide crackdown on voting one of the centerpieces of our 2012 campaign coverage. And here’s a small but very illustrative part of the story. The new voting crackdown law in Florida is so restrictive that even the League of Women Voters (about as old-line, mainstream and establishment a group as you can get) has dropped its voter registration plans in the state.

As Deirdre MacNabb, president of the Florida League of Women Voters, told TPM in a phone interview this week: “when we looked at the laws, we felt that this would put our thousands of volunteers across the state who have registered voters for 70 years in Florida at a grave disadvantage.”

Read more here.

07.15.11 | 7:02 am
Colbert Rolls Out New Fox Motto

Colbert pens new Fox motto: “We Don’t Touch It, You Decide!” Watch.

07.15.11 | 7:34 am
To The Edge

Speaker Boehner: No debt crisis resolution until after symbolic votes next week.

07.15.11 | 10:47 am
Pawlenty’s Tough Line

I went to a press lunch with Gov. Pawlenty today, hosted by Bloomberg News, where the former governor took a hard line on the on-going debt crisis negotiations. Let me share a few quick takeaways. Read More

07.15.11 | 12:15 pm
Bend it like Beckham

Learn how bendable electronics will soon change everything from surgery to energy.