Domestic Politics

Many Americans today have lost faith in the US government and see specifically the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as threatening them as opposed to protecting them. Many Americans, the author included, are deeply concerned about potential government overreach and threats to our liberty and freedom, specifically regarding the First and Second Amendments of the constitution.

High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, a young woman of dubious background, secretive and alone, currently acting as housesitter. The house has a panic room. Cunningly concealed, steel lined, impregnable - and apparently closed from within. Even Blake doesn’t know it’s there. She’s too busy being on the run from life, from a story she thinks she’s escaped. But her remote existence is going to be invaded when people come looking for the house’s owner, missing rogue pharma entrepreneur Jack Harkness.

Gewalt, Unfälle, Sucht, Diskriminierung, Hate Speech und Extremismus – Männer dominieren die Statistiken des Abgrunds: Sie verursachen doppelt so viele Verkehrsunfälle, begehen mit Abstand die meisten Straftaten und belegen deshalb auch 94 Prozent der deutschen Gefängnisse. 75 Prozent der Alkoholtoten jedes Jahr sind männlich und mehr als 80 Prozent der häuslichen Gewalt geht von Männern aus.

The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complicated defence, and its origins in modern law lie with the 'M'Naghten Rules' of 1843. Clearly a plea of insanity in murder cases is of critical importance when the death penalty is still applied, and even today it may still be the difference between a life sentence in a high-security prison, or an indeterminate one in a secure psychiatric hospital.

Emilia Berg brottas med varannan vecka-livet på hemmaplan och storpolitiken i Riksdagen. Livspusslet blir inte enklare när hon av en slump upptäcker att hennes barndomsvän Josefine blir misshandlad av sin beundrade make. Kan hon hjälpa någon som inte vill bli hjälpt? Och om hon inte gör något, vad är hon då för människa? Är alla fina ord i plenisalen bara en fasad? Det eskalerande våldet, rädslan och Josefines försök att ta sig vidare driver utvecklingen fram till det oundvikliga.

Weit über 100 getötete Frauen allein in Deutschland pro Jahr: Morde, über die niemand spricht. Jeden Tag versucht in Deutschland ein Mann, seine Frau umzubringen. Alle 3 Tage wird eine Frau von ihrem Partner oder Ex-Partner getötet. Hinzu kommen die Morde an Frauen durch ihnen unbekannte Täter. Diese Verbrechen sind keine Ehrenmorde oder Beziehungstaten, sondern Femizide: Morde, die an Frauen verübt werden, weil sie Frauen sind.

Tessa arbeitet im Büro der BBC in Belfast, als sie plötzlich ihre Schwester im TV sieht - als Täterin bei einem Raubüberfall. Marian sei bei der IRA, erklärt die Polizei und leitet eine Großfahndung ein. Aber wie kann das sein? Tessa und Marian haben sich immer gegen die Gewalt in Nordirland eingesetzt. Als Tessa die Wahrheit über ihre Schwester erfährt, muss sie sich entscheiden: zwischen ihren Idealen und ihrer Familie, zwischen Unbeteiligtheit und Handeln. Und darüber, was sie tun muss, um die einzige Person zu schützen, die sie noch mehr liebt als ihre Schwester: ihren kleinen Sohn.

The Committee pits friends against friends and threatens careers and lives in a struggle for the soul of a town, a university, and an ideal. Based on actual historical events and set against the backdrop of political, cultural, and class turmoil, this is a story of love - both licit and hidden - war, friendship, betrayal, compromise, and finally the necessity to stand firm against the encroachments upon freedom by men who believe they are doing God’s and the government’s righteous work.

After the death of his daughter, Ty dispatches his son Simon to an Anxiety Abatement Centre. There he encounters another boy called the Prophet. And the Prophet wants him to join a quest. Before long, Simon is on the road with a crew of new comrades on a rescue mission as urgent as it is enigmatic. Suddenly heroes of their own story, they are crossing the country in search of a young woman held in a billionaire's retreat - and, just possibly, the only hope of escape from the apocalypse bequeathed to them by their parents' generation.

Since the beginning of man’s existence, organizations have been an integral part of shaping ones’ beliefs and ideas about himself and that of the surrounding environment. This report deals with the individuals’ ideas and how he manipulates his beliefs in others. Various examples will be shown of how the individual can shroud and misconceive his ideals for the betterment of himself, the organizations, and the country.

On average, at least one woman is murdered by a current or former partner every week in Australia. Far too many Australian women have experienced physical or sexual violence. Only rarely do these women capture the attention of the media and the public. What can we do to stem the tide of violence and tragedy? Finally, we are starting to talk about this epidemic of gendered violence, but too often we are doing so in a way that can be clumsy and harmful. Victim blaming, passive voice and over-identification with abusers continue to be hallmarks of reporting on this issue.

This is a story about staying on top in the competitive soap opera community of Missoginee Falls. As an aging submissive struggles to keep her place as her master's favorite, her young rival works just as hard to gain favor. Meanwhile, the masters, their sons and the beta males at the bottom rung of the ladder all want the community to move in different directions. Changes are coming to the patriarchal community as lines are drawn and alliances begin to be formed and tested. (Author's note: While most Missoginee Falls stories are stand alone short stories, you may enjoy this one more if ...

At 11 years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of his maths teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide. Twenty-five years later... Morgan Sheppard wakes up handcuffed to a bed in an unfamiliar hotel room, with five strangers waking up around him. In the bathroom - a corpse. One of the people in the room is the killer, and Sheppard has three hours to solve the murder. If he doesn't find the killer, they all die.