What's next for hate crimes bill?—Buttigieg hits NYT Bestseller list—Coats' future at DNI—Pence staff changes

“I don't know what it is about Hoosiers. But where ever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there.”—Kurt Vonnegut

By Adam Wren and design by Kris Davidson

Days until the 2019 election: 257

Days until the 2020 election: 621

Since announcing his presidential exploratory committee, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has become the intellectual horsepower of the Democratic pack, talking about structural democratic reforms and framing capitalism as being in tension with democ…