Weekly Wrap 12.30.16: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. David Fahrenthold Tells the Behind-the-Scenes Story of His Year Covering Trump

The winner of the Post’s first Ben Bradlee Prize for his coverage of the 2016 election pens an essay on his experience covering Trump. I thought I’d be through with the story in a day or two. I was wrong. I didn’t understand—and I don’t think Trump understood, either—where that one check, and that one question, would lead.”

2. 2016: The Best Year for Black Musicians Since ‘Purple Rain’ 

If you noticed that a staggering amount of the music you loved from the past 12 months was made by black artists, there's data to back that up.

3. The Internet Law That Explains Why 2016 Was So Terrible

Spend most of 2016 feeling crazy? That’s thanks to Poe’s law, which “stipulates that online, sincere expressions of extremism are often indistinguishable from satirical expressions of extremism.”

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