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Are Food Dyes Dying Out? Why America Might Finally Be Trading Chemicals for Science

Walk down any American grocery aisle and you are surrounded by color. Neon reds, radioactive blues, fluorescent yellows—foods engineered to look louder than nature ever intended. These colors are not incidental. They are synthetic food dyes, petroleum-derived chemicals designed to make processed food more appealing, more marketable, and more addictive. For decades, they have been…

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Who Really Shapes Policy? The Top Lobbying Spenders of 2025 and the Power Behind Them

Lobbying is often discussed as a background feature of American politics—something abstract, technical, or inevitable. But in practice, lobbying is one of the clearest ways to see whose interests have the most consistent access to lawmakers, regulators, and the policy-writing process itself. Money does not guarantee outcomes, but it determines proximity: who gets meetings, who…

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