For nearly a decade, Ladar Levison ran Lavabit, a secure e-mail service that served as an alternative for a tech-savvy crowd that cared about privacy. Then, last July, after two months of haggling with the F.B.I., Mr. Levison shuttered the service rather than give the government untrammeled access to his users’ communications and everything he had built.

For a couple of days last week, Texas Rep. Randy Neugebauer was the Republican face of the government shutdown. Neugebauer showed up to the Wednesday “storming” of the World War II Memorial, and got irritated when a park ranger closed a gate behind a group of veterans. The congressman was...

This is a timeline of net neutrality from your friends at Public Knowledge. Each entry contains links that should help you better understand the history of net neutrality and what was going on at the time of the action.

Health department raids picnic and destroys all food with bleach

The Senate Judiciary Committee approves a media shield bill to keep 'real reporters' from having to testify on their work.