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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. Andrew C. McCarthy in National Review: Mr. McCarthy does not believe that the news of General Michael T. Flynn’s guilty plea is a sign of a major breakthrough for the Russia investigation. If collusion did indeed occur between the Trump campaign and Russia, then Mr. Flynn would be “pleading guilty to an espionage conspiracy,” not what Mr. McCarthy describes as a “process crime” — lying to the F.B.I. Read more » _____ Bre Payton in The Federalist: Ms. Payton reacted to the news of Mr. Flynn’s guilty plea by listing past instances of American politicians meeting with foreign dignitaries before they were sworn into office. None of them, she points out, were prosecuted for any crimes. Read more » _____ Amy Davidson Sorkin in The New Yorker: Ms. Sorkin, unlike Mr. McCarthy, sees Friday’s news as the sign of “a new, significant chapter in the story of the magnetically charged interaction of Michael Flynn and Donald Trump.” Moreover, she writes, the larger issue at play in the relationship of Mr. Flynn and Mr. Trump is how “conspiratorialism was intertwined w... Link to the full article to read more