Gabriella Coleman | Politico: How MAHA is Helping Poison Americans While Claiming to Save Them
The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that Professor Gabriella Coleman, alongside Eric Reinhart, published an opinion in Politico. The piece, titled "How MAHA is Helping Poison Americans While Claiming to Save Them," examines how the Trump administration’s deregulatory regime is undermining MAHA’s (Make America Healthy Again) health aims.
The Trump administration’s recent announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency will roll back dozens of regulations protecting air and water quality has drawn praise from industry groups and condemnation from environmentalists. But one stakeholder has been conspicuously absent: the self-described health freedom movement known as MAHA.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement has built its platform around the dangers of toxic chemicals in food, water and medicine — concerns we share. Yet Kennedy and his allies have so far remained silent as the Trump administration clears the way for more pollution, more toxins and greater corporate impunity. This contradiction is not just hypocrisy; it reflects a deeper structural problem.