Outside the Beltway

Some quick hits.

He met with people. And, get this, with his father!

A group of extremists are stopped from instigating a riot.

Pop those tabs!

Some thoughts.

The first round produced two very different candidates.

Who gets to claim Latino heritage?

No, presidentialism does not lock us into two parties.

His attacks are, in fact, the best case for tenure.

Drug smuggling edition.

Counting is not necessarily as straightforward as it may seem.

Barbados provides an illustration of a frequently misunderstood concept.

A possible murder plot in Colombia embedded into a problematic multi-decade narrative.

The Biden admin is about to take a demilitarized group off the terrorist list and some people aren’t happy about it.

Several stories for your consumption.

Behind the CDC’s messaging debacle.

SLT talking Colombia.

More voice, more votes, more representation.

A problematically wide-open election in difficult times.

A bizarre case of bureaucratic ineptitude.

How well do single-seat districts lead to representation? (And of what?)

A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.

Some reflections

Let me point you to a reform proposal.

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.