Meanwhile, as the dog days of summer wind down, we’re still experiencing a month of food recalls. Will the contamination of foods from lettuce to dog food finally cause a reckoning? In her piece this week, our editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel writes that “the FDA has come nowhere close to meeting its FSMA-mandated targets for foreign safety inspections since 2018.” That means inspections are down, as many Americans continue to support the MAHA, anti-science movement.

And the logic has some roots in anti-Big Pharma legitimacy. As Gregg Gonsalves writes this week, companies like Moderna are even making potential new cancer drugs prohibitively expensive.

-Alana Pockros

Associate Editor, The Nation