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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. For an archive of all the Partisan Writing Roundups, check out Our Picks. Senator Jeff Flake in The Washington Post: After his speech on the Senate Floor on Tuesday, Mr. Flake wrote this op-ed in The Washington Post, urging members of both parties to remember to “stand up and speak out.” Unbound by the political burdens of running for re-election, Mr. Flake writes that he intends to spend the remaining 14 months of his term “guided only by the dictates of conscience.” Read more » _____ The editors of The Weekly Standard: The editorial board of The Weekly Standard notes that it is puzzling why President Trump and his “celebrity allies” such as Stephen K. Bannon and Laura Ingraham were so keen on unseating Mr. Flake from his Arizona seat. After all, the editors note, while he may differ with the president on immigration and trade, “his views on foreign policy and national security are closer to Trump’s than, say, Lindsey Graham’s.” They conclude that the president and his defenders cannot abide a person who praises the leader when he’s right, and criticizes him when he’s wrong. Read more » _____ Ben Domenech in The Federalist... Link to the full article to read more