Policy
Vox’s policy team covers how government action and inaction affect people’s lives: the problems facing the US, the ideas that could solve them, and the debates and arguments that will determine if those solutions become reality.
Trump has expanded presidential power to ban broad groups of immigrants.
Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.
Trump’s crackdown on the LA protests is a dramatic escalation of his assault on Americans’ rights. Is it legal?
The autism commission is doomed to fail.
If passed, President Donald Trump’s signature legislation would make college more expensive.
Tuskegee University’s president explains how he’s approaching this Trump administration.
What is “coercive control”?
Trump’s latest policy will impact millions of people around the world.
Mexico’s attempt to cut off the flow of guns to drug cartels dies in the Supreme Court.
In his latest move, Trump is attacking the people who have helped bail out American higher education.
A smaller government would not necessarily protect American democracy from Trump.
Inside a red state where universal pre-K is incredibly popular.
Democrats should debate messaging less (and policy more).
Our economy isn’t built for the biological clock. But it can be.
Trump wants to blow a $3 trillion hole in the budget. The bond market is saying “no way.”
Trump may kick half a million immigrants, from nations with unstable or authoritarian regimes, out of the US.
An unlikely alliance is supporting a new bipartisan bill in Congress.
Criticism of Israel is ramping up. What does that mean for the war in Gaza?
When animal cruelty trumps capitalism.
The real cost of forcing foreign students away from elite universities like Harvard.
Do we need apartment buildings to have two staircases?
Uh oh, the quest for a safer cigarette may have backfired.
When it comes to our health, maybe we should be testing and diagnosing less.
Americans remained scared of violent crime. The numbers tell a different story.
Trump is going after Harvard’s international students.
Why people who work could still lose their health insurance.
Tipped workers need a raise, not a tax cut.
One of the GOP justices must have defected in a case about religious schools, but the Court didn’t reveal who it was.
The GOP remains a conspiracy to steal from the poor and give to the rich.
Why the GOP put SALT on the table.
South Sudan isn’t safe. The Trump administration is sending immigrants there anyway.
The policy looks less like a pro-worker tax credit and more like a big business tax cut.
An analysis of the last four months shows public opinion still has sway.
The Supreme Court sided with Trump at the expense of Venezuelan immigrants.
The competing visions for good child care, explained.
The record drop in drug overdose deaths, briefly explained.
The Birthright Citizenship argument wasn’t the only significant news out of the Supreme Court on Thursday.
Activists believe they’ve found a new weapon.
Trump’s new resettlement program ignores the history of apartheid.