Author : Marie Brennan

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New Worlds: Blue Bloods

Ah, aristocracy. It would be the best form of government . . . if only it were humanly possible to implement as originally conceived, instead

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New Worlds: Who Owns What

“It’s mine!” All of us probably uttered that sentence at some point in our childhood — probably many, many times. One of the jobs of

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New Worlds: Death Sentences

Our previous tour through physical punishments, back in Year Four, stopped short of a rather crucial one: execution. (Content warnings for basically every form of

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New Worlds: Torture

I was originally going to title this essay “We Have Ways of Making You Talk,” but I decided that was too flippant for the subject

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New Worlds: Call the Police

One of the interesting things about police as an element of society is just how broad the concept is. In various times and places, their

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