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The ascent of MAHA—the Trump administration’s movement to “Make America Healthy Again”—is part of a broader health revolution in the United States, one that venerates the past in order to carve out a purportedly healthier future. It has had mixed results; some MAHA tenets have little basis in medical literature (researchers pushed back on the White House’s announcement this week that Tylenol use during pregnancy could be linked to autism). In today’s Daily, my colleague Elizabeth Bruenig joins me for a conversation about her new article, “When Child Death Was Everywhere,” and the philosophy of

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