Week signals: Third candidates, third ways, third rails

Plus Germany, Lebanon, Yemen, Taiwan, and Bolivia.

Popular vote by the county level (1880) , in Scribner’s Statistical Atlas, Henry Gannett and Fletcher Hewes, 1883, Library of Congress.

The Week in Review: The paradox of political choice

After Thursday’s unedifying US debate, thoughts have turned to third candidates, whether within the Democratic Party (Gavin Newsom has re-emerged as a favourite, though …