Weekly Wrap 2.10.17: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

3. Christ, Not America, First

“At some point, inevitably, Christians will have to choose between Jesus and their preferred political party and ideology.”

4. ‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’ and the Age of the Weaponized Meme

“‘Nevertheless, she persisted’ has, on the one hand, the impish irony of a powerful person’s words being used against him. It has, on the other, words that are elegant in their brevity, making them especially fit for tweets and slogans and mugs. And it has, too, words that are particularly poetic, rendered in near-iambic pentameter, with the key verb of their accusation — ‘persisted’ — neatly rhyming with that other key verb: ‘resisted.’ The whole thing was, for Warren, a perfect storm. It was, for McConnell, a decidedly imperfect one.”