The Corporate Culture Wars Have a New Coalition: Beth Kowitt

A new development in the culture wars is about to create a fresh set of headaches for corporate America.

Issues that left-wing advocacy groups have been heckling companies about for decades are increasingly being taken up by the right — a shift that’s adding complexity and risk for CEOs already struggling to navigate this moment’s deep ideological rifts.

There is no better example of the left-right convergence than Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent Make America Healthy Again report. Many of the factors it accuses of contributing to childhood chronic disease — ultra-processed food, pesticides, and corporate lobbying’s influence on regulation — have historically been scourges of the left.

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