Here is a different take on the DNC emails, from the UK!

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2. True as to human nature. However, this goes well beyond two competitors trying to best each other.

There is a reason the charter of the DNC, which is supported by donations from the public, requires neutrality. And the role of media in politics, the reason it got first amendment protection, is not to collude secretly to help one candidate win and help the other lose. This is not someone succeeding or failing in a race or a business. In a republic, we citizens we fund the whole shebang, have little enough power as it is, especially in what is essentially only a two-party system. Our primary choices are perhaps the greatest bit of power we have--or thought we had.

As far as the article, the relation to the emails is that their discovery and contents are having an impact on the internal politics of another nation, causing more than just the US to squint at their processes. The impact of the emails viewed through the eyes of another nation--hence "a different take." I found it interesting.