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Government Op-Ed

Washington, Philadelphia, and the problems of home rule

August 12, 2025August 11, 2025
A. Benjamin Mannes

Has unchecked local autonomy bred systemic dysfunction that higher levels of government may be better positioned to correct in both DC and Philadelphia?
By A. Benjamin Mannes

Government

Hospital association sues DHS over pro-union language in Medicaid contracts

May 9, 2022May 13, 2022
Anthony Hennen

Lawsuit argues that DHS doesn’t have the authority to include collective bargaining language in Medicaid contracts.
By Anthony Hennen

The Courts

Wally Zimolong: The Supreme Court slows the spread of the administrative state

January 21, 2022February 26, 2025
Wally Zimolong
1

Voters unhappy with the power of federal agencies should demand elected officials pass legislation that reigns in the administrative state once and for all.
By Wally Zimolong

Government

Andrew Abramczyk: Medicaid, the federal program that ate Pennsylvania

January 2, 2022December 31, 2021
Andrew Abramczyk
1

Federal coronavirus “aid” made things worse.
By Andrew Abramcyzk

Health

Ben Mannes: Did controversy over Covid-19 treatments reveal the FDA’s “Vaccine Bias”?

September 22, 2021September 27, 2021
A. Benjamin Mannes
3

While FDA approvals for potentially breakthrough treatments for Covid-19 languish, many wonder if recent plans from the Biden administration to control the distribution of monoclonal antibodies are a plan to hold back Covid-19 treatments in order to force Americans to get vaccinated.
A. Benjamin Mannes

Health

Steve Bittenbender: Department of Justice looking into COVID-19 nursing home deaths in New York, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

August 30, 2020April 19, 2021
Steve Bittenbender

The Department of Justice is currently considering whether to conduct an investigation on nursing homes in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.
By Steve Bittenbender

Op-Ed

Christine Flowers: Meet two sides of the antisemitic coin, left and right

Christine Flowers: Meet two sides of the antisemitic coin, left and right

schedule March 16 2026
ink_pen Christine Flowers

New York City’s first lady and commentator Megyn Kelly have more in common than one might imagine.
By Christine Flowers

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