The U.S. Supreme Court recently held hearings on whether states have the right to ban use of the medical abortion drug, mifepristone, through the mail. Mifepristone blocks a hormone called ...

Editor’s Note: David S. Cohen is a professor at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University. Greer Donley is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and associate professor of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But beware: Modern American Puritans who sit on judicial benches and state ...

Aug. 2—Their insatiable appetite for apocalypses being unsatisfied by mere fears of a boiling planet and Trumptalitarianism, progressives have conjured a fresh terror: Anthony Comstock, dead now 108 ...

Left: Anthony Comstock, (1844-1915), an American fanatical and anti-vice activist is shown. The source word "Comstockery," is derived from his protests. Right: Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) , ...

In a chapter introducing the infamous 19th-century reformer Anthony Comstock, Rebecca L. Davis describes him boarding a D.C.-bound train carrying “a suitcase full of porn … a catalog of the images and ...

NPMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Anthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the ...

PERHAPS all the fuss about purity is nothing but a subtle publicity device to draw attention to this learned and scholarly tome, “Anthony Comstock, Roundsman of the Lord,” upon which the leisure of ...