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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. • Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness: “The pre-presidential fears about a populist nationalist rather than conservative Trump [...] have not materialized.” Mr. Hanson has a message to never-Trump conservatives who might be starting to feel vindicated in light of the turmoil of the past couple of weeks: Whatever his flaws, President Trump is still the country’s best bet to enact true conservative policies. Read more » _____ • Andrew C. McCarthy in National Review: “The real question raised by the president’s latest intemperate remarks and the company in which they were made is whether the president knows the good guys from the bad guys.” When Mr. McCarthy read our article reporting that Mr. Trump told Russian officials that James B. Comey was a “nut job,” he admits to being “slack-jawed.” Despite whatever flaws Mr. McCarthy sees in Mr. Comey, he recognizes that the former Read more » _____ • James Downton in The Federalist: “This coup d’état is leaderless and exposes some of the deepest fissures in our system of government.” An author writing under the pen name James Downton argues that we are witnessing a “slow-motion... Link to the full article to read more