Editors’ Blog - 2012
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05.11.12 | 6:34 am
Backed Into a Paradox?

Is Mitt’s lack of any political core or center, paradoxically, making it hard to tack to the center post-primaries?

05.11.12 | 7:58 am
No ‘Counterculture’ Hair At Liberty U.

Mitt Romney makes the required pilgrimage Saturday to the late Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, where “Hair and clothing styles related to a counterculture (as determined by the Student Affairs Deans’ Review Committee) are not acceptable.”

05.11.12 | 8:46 am
Great Moments In Geraldo History

Geraldo on Fox and Friends this morning: “The last time I flew to Afghanistan, I got manually raped by a guy.”

Video after the jump. Read More

05.11.12 | 8:58 am
Finding Signals In The Noise

Researchers hunting for the elusive Higgs Boson particle are going to have to wade through an unprecedented volume of particle collision data now that the Large Hadron Collider powered up to a higher level.

05.11.12 | 9:12 am
Citizenship Matters

I got in a bit of an argument on Twitter earlier this week about my belief in the importance of unitary citizenship — or to put it another way, thinking dual citizenship is really not okay. Read More

05.11.12 | 10:05 am
The Schlump-In-Chief

When you’re the President, you get to have Sofia Vergara come by the office on a Saturday. But, dude … is that a track suit?

05.11.12 | 12:34 pm
JP Morgan Mess Enters Prez Campaign

The Obama camp takes it first shot at Mitt Romney since the JP Morgan debacle over his opposition to financial reform.

05.11.12 | 12:53 pm
Tricky For Obama

In its statement to TPM a short time ago, the Obama campaign knocked Mitt Romney’s opposition to financial reform but stopped short of tying him to the JP Morgan mess, or even mentioning it specifically. That’s because the JP Morgan losses are a very sticky issue for the Obama administration. Financial regulatory reform was intended to prevent the kinds of trading JP Morgan was engaging in, but the rules as written by Obama administration regulators may not actually prohibit it, as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon was quick to point out yesterday. Brian Beutler explains.

05.11.12 | 1:06 pm
Readers Share Their Stories

TPM Reader BW shares her own citizenship story …

After reading Josh’s post “Citizenship Matters” I wanted to share my perspective as a dual citizen of the United States and Switzerland, and on the question of citizenship generally, which in my family is rather complicated.

Both my parents, my two U.S.-born brothers, and I are all Swiss citizens, but I am the only one who was actually born on Swiss soil.

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