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Female Hillary Clinton supporters have described how they broke down after her crushing election loss. For many women, they felt they'd not only lost the chance of a huge milestone — the election of America's first female president — but the victorious candidate was one who had denigrated women and been accused of multiple instances of sexual assault. Maggie Passmore of St. Paul, Minnesota, had been watching election returns at a party but reverted to watching at home 'when things got scary.' She fell asleep, then awoke to learn that Donald Trump was defeating Hillary Clinton. 'And then I threw...

President Obama surely didn't want to offer his commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech on a day dominated by rumors of war. An armed conflict with the Syrian government, even of limited duration, was never part of Obama's dream. In a way, the very fact that our first African-American commander in chief had other things on his mind as he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial could itself be taken as a triumph. [....] But if Obama wanted to shift our foreign policy away from the Middle East, the Middle East...

In the Beyond series, thinker and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger imagines beyond the current paradigms. Find out more about Unger at his Harvard Law School faculty page (http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/unger/) and at his Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Mangabeira_Unger). "President Obama must be defeated in the coming election," Roberto Unger, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School who taught Obama, said in a video posted on May 22. "He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States."

Hitler was able to get the Olympics to Munich!

AP: Conrad Burns concedes Senate race in Mont. to Democrat John Tester

<p>Webster's New College Dictionary defines 'submit' as 1. To surrender or yield oneself to the will or authority of another. 2. To subject to a condition or process. 3. To commit to the consideration or judgment of another.</p> <p>In Bill Vucick's world, the definition of submit can be slightly more graphic: straddling an opponent who is flat on his back, unloading rounds of punches to his face until it bleeds like well-tenderized raw chuck.</p>