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This Is Hillary Clinton’s Secret Email: HDR22@ClintonEmail.com

J.K. Trotter · 03/03/15 01:25PM

Former officials of the U.S. State Department are furiously denying suggestions that retired Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s extensive use of a private email address violated federal rules concerning the preservation of official government records. A FOIA request filed two years ago by Gawker, however, proves that Clinton—a likely contender for the Democratic presidential nominee—successfully used the off-the-books email account to conceal official correspondence from prying eyes. Ours.

What Email Subject Lines Terrify You?

Aleksander Chan · 02/23/15 11:30AM

In an entertaining game of wits published yesterday on Medium, writers Virginia Heffernan and Paul Ford spent two months attempting to instill the fear of God in the other with their email subject lines. You know the kind.

The Third Law of eMotion

Kyla Marshell · 10/02/14 02:00PM

The first one that arrived was for Kevin, a teenage boy from Port Arthur, Texas:

Can Someone Check on Nancy Pelosi?

Jordan Sargent · 07/31/14 02:53PM

Not sure what's going on here but Nancy Pelosi seems to be in grave danger. If someone knows Nancy Pelosi can you give her a call or maybe drive past her house to make sure everything is alright? Thanks in advance.

What Was Kirsten Dunst Doing on May 4?

Caity Weaver · 10/30/13 09:00AM

As Miranda July's celebrity-email-based art project "We Think Alone" winds to a close, a burning question—and possibly a coded message for help—has emerged: What was Kirsten Dunst doing on May 4?

If You Want Someone to Reply to Your Email, Be Judgy and Sad

Maggie Lange · 05/03/13 04:25PM

What's the key to acquiring a quick reply to your email? Make the recipients think that if they do not reply immediately, it will be the final action that tips your day—nay, your life—into an abyss of distressing turmoil. No, it's not clarity, urgency, or brevity that garners replies; it's negativity and pessimism.

Why Do You Text Like Thissss? Girl, You're Drunnnk

Maggie Lange · 02/21/13 05:12PM

It's been happening for a whilllee, texters lengthening their verbage, and linguists are here to analyze. Using nearly 4 million words from students' digital-communications data, a linguist at the University of Toronto has discovered this word elongating practice is a trend most common among female twenty-somethings (though it extends to different ages and across both genders as well). Vowels are the most frequently duplicated letters, and often words are only elongated by two or three letters at a time.

NYU Student Accidentally Hits Reply All to 40,000 Students, "Replyallcalypse" Ensues

Taylor Berman · 11/27/12 08:57PM

When NYU sophomore Max Wiseltier received an email from NYU's Bursar office last night about a new, electronic tuition form, he wasn't sure what to do so, naturally, he forwarded the email to his mom. "do you want me to do this?" was his exact response. There was one small problem, though; instead of hitting "Fwd" he clicked "Reply all," accidentally sending the message to all 39,979 NYU students on the list.

Bill Clinton Only Sent Two Emails as President

Robert Kessler · 11/26/12 06:00PM

Are you still waiting on your personalized email from President Bill Clinton thanking you for your donation to his campaign? Unless you're a maverick of space exploration or prevented a major war from escalating, that email isn't coming.

Arianna Huffington Has Been Hacked

Maureen O'Connor · 04/20/12 04:43PM

Early yesterday morning, Arianna Huffington's AOL email address sent a spam hyperlink to numerous people in her address book. It was an email virus, the apparent product of a hack on the AOL News headmistress' personal account.