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On Oct. 13, 1996, 35-year-old Sharon Lopatka from rural Hampstead, Maryland, rode a train south with death on her mind. She told her husband that she was on her way to visit friends in Georgia, then drove her blue Honda Civic 45 minutes down to Baltimore...

When Facebook announced in late January that it was banning private gun sales on its site and on Instagram, the company stepped into the deep end of a controversy into which it had previously only dipped its digital toes. In 2014, the social media behemoth...

On Jan. 7, 2014, the 34th anniversary of his murder, Bill Comeans inexplicably sent a tweet: 34 years ago today, I was murdered. I was 14 and had my entire life to live. My family is still looking for my killer. — Bill Comeans (@BillComeans) January...

As homicide rates soar in major cities across the country, one mayor has chosen an odd scapegoat for his own city’s failings to stem the tide of violence. Chicago’sRahm Emanuel blamed “the chilling effects of high-profile protests againstpolice brutality...

For those of us who have a hard time remembering a world without the internet (or who never experienced those benighted times), it can be easy to forget that ubiquitous digital connectivity isn’t actually a reality. There are still unwired places and...