By Brent Cunningham It’s no secret that RFK Jr. has not delivered for his MAHA constituents. On everything from glyphosate to ultra-processed foods, Kennedy has either yielded to Trump’s agenda ...

The first time Jesse Gabriel was asked to consider a food safety bill, in 2023, he was wary—to say the least. Banning food dyes? It sounded a little “California woo-woo.” ...

By Theodore Ross The latest installment in FERN’s special series, “MAHA and the Midterms,” is by Jill Filipovic, and it poses ...

The initial loading of breakfast cereals with sugar has been attributed to a single person: Jim Rex, a heating-equipment ...

Much attention has been paid to the MAHA moms, and rightly so. Women have powered the movement, evangelizing for whole foods and raw milk on Instagram, successfully pressuring Donald Trump to ...

Marina Arbetman stands in the middle of a raspberry field with a look of disbelief. Though she knew what to expect, to actually see it is, by turns, baffling, outrageous, and saddening.

By Brent Cunningham Over the years, we’ve produced quite a few stories about salmon in Alaska. Mostly it’s been a story of loss: fewer wild fish, Native communities ...

This this past February, as Super Bowl viewers chowed down on Buffalo wings and loaded nachos, they found themselves unexpectedly admonished. On their TV screens, in a black-and-white close-up, was ...

Nathan Hill pushes his skiff off from the shore as the Alaskan dawn breaks through a dense bank of clouds. It’s high tide at the mouth of the Naknek River, in the northeast arm of Bristol Bay, home to ...

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