At Slate I have a discussion about the DNC hack with Isaac Chotiner. A flavor: Is the election aspect of this hack unique?

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Over the weekend, there was a crescendo of reports regarding how Russia may be attempting to influence the US presidential election. Jack provided analysis this morning, including links to several of tho...

Potentially unpleasant news for Jim Comey: We need you to intervene in the 2016 election again.

David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth of the NYT summarize the evidence of a Russia-based hack of the DNC emails:

A few weeks ago, we noted the release of a new paper on sextortion by the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center.

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Former State Department Deputy Legal Adviser Sue Biniaz, who has served as the Department's top environmental lawyer for more than twenty-five years and is now teaching at Columbia Law School, has writte...