Jeff Stier

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Kratom leaves are arranged for a photograph in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Kratom, a coffee-like evergreen that Southeast Asian farmers have long chewed to relieve pain, is one of the hottest local commodities thanks to the opioid epidemic in the U.S.

Oh no! Kratom battle exposed as an industry scare campaign

Jeff Stier · June 30, 2026 11:00 am

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Trump’s deregulatory triumphs and the RFK Jr. problem

Jeff Stier · February 28, 2026 7:00 am

Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion lock themselves to the fence at the entance to the Massachusetts Statehouse during a protest against new fossil fuel infrastructure, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in Boston.

Fairness and Justice

Violent climate action is not free speech

Jeff Stier · February 4, 2025 6:00 am

The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Beltway Confidential

Hold climate change activists accountable for Maui wildfire missteps

Jeff Stier · October 2, 2023 6:00 am

The FDA tasks the Reagan-Udall Foundation with a whitewash review

Jeff Stier, Henry Miller · September 17, 2022 12:00 am

With claims against pharmacies, trial lawyers are becoming a public nuisance

Jeff Stier · June 9, 2022 12:00 am

A sign reads "Consultation" at the pharmacy window inside a Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. store in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on Oct. 19, 2017.

Both parties can work together to lower drug prices

Jeff Stier · November 27, 2018 5:00 am

Congress is asking questions because the International Agency for Research on Cancer findings on the carcinogenicity of certain chemicals, personal behaviors, and environmental factors often diverge from mainstream science. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

Congressional oversight weeds out corrupt international junk science

julie-kelly, Jeff Stier · February 16, 2018 5:01 am

Obama administration pollutes guidelines for healthy eating with unhealthy ideologies

Jeff Stier · March 9, 2014 12:00 am

Mid-Section of an Overweight Man Sitting on a Park Bench With Take-Away Food

Op-Ed: Free market has real solutions to obesity crisis

Jeff Stier, Henry Miller · May 20, 2013 4:00 am

Chemical fight offers early look at Obama’s second-term EPA

Jeff Stier · December 3, 2012 5:00 am

AURORA, CO - NOVEMBER 13: A child sits in a nutrition class during the Shapedown program for overweight adolescents and children on November 13, 2010 in Aurora, Colorado. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Junk science about junk food

Jeff Stier · August 20, 2012 4:00 am