Paul J. Larkin (Heritage): A Proposal to Restructure the Clemency Process: The Vice President as Head of a White House Clemency Office. Austria’s far Right signs a cooperation pact with Putin’s party: Austria’s Freedom Party leader also reported, on Facebook, that he had recently met with President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for national security adviser. Locked on the psych ward: Lock them in, bill their insurer, kick them out — how scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients into profits. Of Marx and media: The current paroxysms in trade media were foretold by Karl Marx 150 years ago. Original sin: Paul Finkelman on the Electoral College as a pro-slavery tool. “On and around November 8, 2016, American history changed”: Rhian Sasseen on HillaryLooks, and the surreal world of conservative Instagram.
