In 1998, Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee mounted a series of hearings on I.R.S. abuse, featuring taxpayers who portrayed the agency's tax collectors as overzealous thugs with no respect for due process.
And while adultery and abuse feature heavily, it's when writing about the trickier subjects of family and loyalty that Mr Tsiolkas's insight as a writer is most prevalent.For all its honesty, though, the book lacks warmth.
There was no such problem this year, says Richardson firmly – although child abuse featured as a theme again ("when is that ever not timely, unfortunately?"), along with crime in general, and climate change.
At the same time, the company has been building up its anti-abuse features since before Costolo's memo leaked.
While Twitter had rolled out various anti-abuse features over the years, the company had generally focused on things like being able to block and report accounts, or putting together a "safety council" to discuss the matter.
As with other new anti-abuse features, some people seem genuinely baffled as to why they were flagged, not seemingly able to connect the dots between their tweets and their consequences.
But Twitter has been trying to better handle abuse complaints, in more recent months, including through the acquisition of anti-abuse technology provider Smyte, which is helping to automate some of the processes here, as well as with the rollout of more stringent policies and anti-abuse features.
Physical, as well as sexual abuse, repeatedly features in the allegations.
A sober docudrama about the Boston Globe's investigation into ecclesiastical child abuse, Spotlight features a key sequence in which a reporter (Mark Ruffalo) gets his hands on some vital legal documents in a county records office, only to be told that he can't photocopy them until the following morning.
