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2013-05-16 20:14:03 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

2013-05-16 00:20:18 (2 comments, 7 reshares, 18 +1s)

2013-04-27 15:42:11 (19 comments, 18 reshares, 42 +1s)

Yesterday, members of Ukrainian feminist group Femen staged protests across Europe as they called for a "topless jihad." The demonstrations were in support of a young Tunisian activist named Amina Tyler. Last month, Tyler posted naked images of herself online, with the words "I own my body; it's not the source of anyone's honor" written on her bare chest. The head of Tunisia's "Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," reportedly called for Tyler to be stoned to death for her putatively obscene actions, lest they lead to an epidemic. (Credit: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty)

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/04/femen-stages-a-topless-jihad/100487/

2013-04-04 17:57:45 (4 comments, 7 reshares, 20 +1s)

2013-04-01 21:38:26 (60 comments, 17 reshares, 26 +1s)

2013-01-23 16:37:59 (11 comments, 42 reshares, 60 +1s)

This map compares the rate of gun murders in American cities to nations around the world.

More details here: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/01/gun-violence-us-cities-compared-deadliest-nations-world/4412/

2013-01-21 18:33:05 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 43 +1s)

The Inauguration of Barack Obama in Photos

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/the-2nd-inauguration-of-barack-obama-in-photos/100443/

2013-01-15 18:48:26 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 19 +1s)

2013-01-14 20:30:32 (9 comments, 17 reshares, 24 +1s)

2013-01-14 16:02:08 (3 comments, 16 reshares, 17 +1s)

2013-01-11 15:41:03 (5 comments, 13 reshares, 35 +1s)

Rare Photo of the Mushroom Cloud Over Hiroshima Discovered in a Japanese Elementary School

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/rare-photo-of-the-mushroom-cloud-over-hiroshima-discovered-in-a-japanese-elementary-school/267042/

2013-01-10 20:30:38 (4 comments, 15 reshares, 27 +1s)

"Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing and scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory."

2013-01-04 18:50:40 (5 comments, 27 reshares, 76 +1s)

Yesterday, William Shatner tweeted at an astronaut on the International Space Station—and the astronaut responded with a 'Star Trek' joke.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-day-william-shatner-tweeted-at-an-astronaut-and-the-astronaut-replied/266824/

2013-01-04 17:57:02 (1 comments, 12 reshares, 24 +1s)

“How do you make bourbon? You take some moonshine, put it in a barrel, and add a bunch of federal regulations.”

2013-01-04 15:23:02 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

What lessons might Obama borrow from his successful two-term predecessors to avoid being perceived as a lame duck?

2013-01-03 21:27:14 (1 comments, 12 reshares, 14 +1s)

The dark side of anesthesia: In the United States alone, tens of thousands of patients each year wake up at some point during surgery—and nobody can explain why it happens.

2013-01-03 17:30:38 (3 comments, 19 reshares, 31 +1s)

This is what Mars would look like if it had Earth-like oceans and life. (Credit: Kevin Gill)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/a-martian-dream-heres-what-the-red-planet-would-look-like-with-earth-like-oceans-and-life/266791/

2013-01-03 13:49:13 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 37 +1s)

Our new issue is now online! What do you think of the cover?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/

2013-01-02 20:28:30 (3 comments, 7 reshares, 16 +1s)

A fascinating look inside North Korea. PHOTOS: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/01/a-look-inside-north-korea/100432/ (David Guttenfelder/AP)

2013-01-02 18:29:34 (15 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

"This may be the definition of compromise -- each side makes enough real concessions to feel truly dissatisfied with the final result, but both sides' ownership of the measure means it can't be used as a political wedge. Nonetheless, the legislation left a bad taste in just about everyone's mouth."

2012-12-31 18:21:50 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 19 +1s)

New Year's Eve is the worst holiday.

2012-12-19 20:31:58 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Time manages to get everyone to treat its warmed-over sweepstakes as a major news event, year after year. Why do we keep listening?

2012-12-19 15:19:25 (41 comments, 80 reshares, 125 +1s)

Slavery's global comeback: There are now twice as many people enslaved in the world as there were in the 350 years of the transatlantic slave trade.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/12/slaverys-global-comeback/266354/

(Image: Lisa Kristine)

2012-12-18 19:03:50 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

The only way to get around the privacy problems inherent in advertising-supported social networks is to pay for services that we value. It's amazing what power we gain in becoming paying customers instead of the product being sold. 

2012-12-17 19:31:56 (35 comments, 6 reshares, 24 +1s)

Limiting guns may be hopeless. Why don't we focus on the bullets instead?

2012-12-14 22:28:07 (26 comments, 15 reshares, 41 +1s)

"Guns don’t attack children; psychopaths and sadists do. But guns uniquely allow a psychopath to wreak death and devastation on such a large scale so quickly and easily. America is the only country in which this happens again — and again and again."

James Fallows, on why the shootings won't stop.

2012-12-14 16:38:45 (54 comments, 15 reshares, 8 +1s)

Police in Newtown, Connecticut, are investigation a shooting at a local elementary school in which one teacher and possibly several other people, including children, may have been shot. This is a breaking story, and we'll continue to update it below as more details come in. (Photo: Shannon Hicks/The Newtown Bee)

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/12/newtown-connecticut-school-shooting/59999/

2012-12-14 14:12:38 (6 comments, 6 reshares, 2 +1s)

Do you think the military should use weapons that fire autonomously?

2012-12-13 20:47:17 (4 comments, 7 reshares, 11 +1s)

More than four decades after they were established, "segregation academies" in the Deep South continue to define nearly every aspect of community life.

2012-12-13 17:55:49 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Our staff chooses the best TV episodes of 2012. (My favorites are from 'Louie' and 'American Horror Story'.)

What's the best thing you watched on TV this year? 

2012-12-13 16:46:41 (2 comments, 8 reshares, 26 +1s)

How Judith Scott became the first artist with Down Syndrome to have her work featured in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art -- and then in permanent collections in New York, London, and Paris. (Image: Leon Borensztein)

2012-12-12 21:51:46 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

"Even if we can't predict which new discovery is going to occur or which fact is going to be overturned, facts are far from random in the aggregate."

2012-12-12 18:19:02 (12 comments, 24 reshares, 27 +1s)

Is America's income inequality crisis the most important economic story of our time? (Chart: Economic Policy Institute)

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/a-giant-statistical-round-up-of-the-income-inequality-crisis-in-16-charts/266074/

2012-12-12 16:41:14 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 8 +1s)

Earlier today, Pope Benedict tweeted for the very first time. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/the-pope-has-tweeted/266158/

2012-12-12 15:11:45 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 8 +1s)

"Hallucinations, whether revelatory or banal, are not of supernatural origin; they are part of the normal range of human consciousness and experience."

2012-12-11 20:36:04 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

What's the best book you read this year?

(My favorite was "The Autobiography of Mark Twain, 1910—2010". —Chris)

2012-12-11 19:10:05 (5 comments, 4 reshares, 8 +1s)

Can drones stop illegal poaching?

2012-12-11 16:06:01 (0 comments, 6 reshares, 10 +1s)

The exclusive, in-depth story of how same-sex marriage activists finally won over America.

2012-12-10 22:27:45 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Is this the answer to Washington's fiscal-cliff woes?

2012-12-10 20:55:03 (4 comments, 25 reshares, 38 +1s)

NASA decided to X-ray the moon. This is what they saw. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/via-the-moon-a-theory-of-life-on-mars/266076/

2012-12-10 20:08:07 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 13 +1s)

Meet the 82-year-old widow behind the Supreme Court challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act.

2012-12-10 18:42:21 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Frustrated about today's Gmail outage? Here's how you can make sure your browser doesn't crash, too.

2012-12-10 16:07:41 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

The year in photos: Susan Clark of Santa Monica, California stands with a red hand painted over her mouth to represent what she said is socialism taking away her choices and rights, in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on March 28, on the final day of arguments regarding the health care law. (Credit: Charles Dharapak/+APImages.com)

See more of the most memorable images of 2012: http://theatln.tc/TFE8ab

2012-12-10 15:04:12 (20 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Good morning, everybody! What are you reading today?

2012-12-08 20:53:14 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

If the Supreme Court holds that neither federal nor state law can restrict marriage, the result would be revolutionary

2012-12-08 16:56:24 (4 comments, 11 reshares, 46 +1s)

The year in photos: President Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus after an event in Dearborn, Michigan, on April 18, 2012. (Credit: Pete Souza/The White House)

See more of the most memorable images of 2012: http://theatln.tc/TFE8ab

2012-12-07 21:09:00 (9 comments, 5 reshares, 19 +1s)

The memory of the communities on Google Reader live on. Did any of you migrate to G+ after Reader was put down? Do you prefer G+ to Reader? (Or, vice versa?)

2012-12-07 18:17:49 (2 comments, 12 reshares, 35 +1s)

Pearl Harbor, 71 years later: Remembering the attack that dragged the U.S. into World War II. PHOTOS: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/07/world-war-ii-pearl-harbor/100117/ (Credit: +APImages.com)

2012-12-07 16:02:07 (15 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

The unemployment rate in November fell to 7.7%, the lowest since the last full month of President George W. Bush's presidency. Do you think the economy has finally started to turn around?

2012-12-07 16:01:18 (36 comments, 5 reshares, 75 +1s)

Long time no see! We haven't been posting to G+ much, but that's about to change. Expect to see a handful of our top stories on here every day, along with photos, videos, and questions for you all. 

What else would you like to see out of our G+ page?

—Chris Heller (The Atlantic's social media editor)