This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Before I started at Slate in 2022, I was a little nervous about taking on my new job as politics director. I was confident I could learn the ropes ...

You probably need to change your password. Computer users who have one of the 10,000 most popular passwords in the United States are at greater risk of being hacked ...

People are using bad passwords. Actually, there are a lot of terms being bandied about to describe these passwords -- "bad," "simple," "lazy," etc. -- when the most accurate term is ...