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The power to regulate abortion should rest with the states. Therefore, says a reader, the Supreme Court made the right call with Dobbs.

Editorial: Some have suggested the Comstock Act should be repealed now, before a future administration can weaponize it. That would be ideal but unlikely given Congress paralysis on hot-button issues.

The conservative obsession with purity and control is being achieved by increasingly punitive means

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Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 30 The Washington Post on the Israel-Gaza war As the war in Gaza grinds on into its sixth month, cracks are showing in the once unequivocally united front between Israel and the United States.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 30 The Washington Post on the Israel-Gaza war As the war in Gaza grinds on into its

A fresh, sharp look at news, life and politics in Charlestown, Rhode Island

Congressional Democrats are strategizing over legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, the 19th century anti-vice law that’s being eyed by conservative activists to potentially enact a national abortion ban. Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) said in a New York Times op-ed Tuesday that she wants to introduce a bill “to take away the Comstock Act as…

Below is my column in the Hill on the return of the Comstock Act to the national debate. The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. The history of the Act, and its namesake, remains a blot on our legal system. The repeal of…

All Republican-nominated justices are not the same.