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Article snippet: The political news cycle is fast, and keeping up can be overwhelming. Trying to find differing perspectives worth your time is even harder. That’s why we have scoured the internet for political writing from the right and left that you might not have seen. Has this series exposed you to new ideas? Tell us how. Email us at ourpicks@nytimes.com. • David French in National Review: “After two days and almost six hours of high-stakes public testimony, I’m struck by the total lack of any compelling claims supporting the ‘big’ collusion narrative.” Mr. French, who has proved to be a fierce critic of the president from the right, sees no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia after Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s testimony on Tuesday. Instead, he notes, the questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee approach a narrower focus about the president’s decision to dismiss James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, “questions that are important but far less historically consequential than any claim that a president or his attorney general are traitors to their country.” Read more » In a separate article for National Review, Andrew McCarthy writes that Mr. Sessions’s testimony only bolstered his earlier view that the attorney general had no reason to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Read more » _____ • Robert Barnes in Law Newz: “Trump-critics cannot demand Sessions’ recusal on the one hand, and then ignore the more glaring conflict at the center ... Link to the full article to read more