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The Atlantic I Care A Lot The Netflix neo-noir isn’t just about a merciless scammer; it’s about the broken bureaucracies that enable her abuse. Seacia Pavao / Netflix Psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, and other long-term-care facilities have served as chilling backdrops to some of film’s most arresting psychological thrillers. But the foreboding lighthouse of Shutter Island and the macabre, labyrinthine hospital of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest pale in comparison with both movies’ animating horrors: the wretched treatment of the people trapped within. These works dramatize t...

So on January 4, she started what she's careful to call a passion project: Shoutout, a Facebook-only publication that features original pieces by a team of volunteer writers and also collates LGBTQ stories from other local outlets. To date, they've profiled people like Rusty Tennant, who helms Fuse Theatre Ensemble's OutWright Theatre Festival, and Daniel Quasar, the designer behind the Progress Pride Flag; Poison Waters produces a weekly Q&A column with local drag artists. To supplement the stories,  Shoutout's feed is littered with links to events and festivals, and signal b...

The Atlantic Democracy is under attack, and we need to protect it. January 21, 2021 Getty / The Atlantic As I sat in my Capitol Hill office two weeks ago, watching a violent mob storm the symbol and seat of our democracy, I was reminded of my distant past. As a child, I saw my birth country of Somalia descend from relative stability into civil war, overnight. The spaces where people felt most secure—their homes and workplaces—suddenly became battlegrounds, torn by gunfights and bombings. Violent targeting of political leaders—once unheard-of—became commonplace. I never expected to exp...

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