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.
To understand the future of child care, look to Idaho.
Correspondent Rachel Cohen shares her reporter’s log from her trip to Boise, Idaho, to cover their political fight around child care.
Putting Americans back to work in factories isn’t just hard. It’s impossible.
The Oklahoma charter school case is one of two April cases seeking to remake schools in the religious right’s image.
Trump’s tariffs might actually be good for Ukraine.
The “success sequence” has many critics, but lawmakers and parents don’t seem to care.
His team argues it can leave a wrongfully deported man in a foreign mega-prison.
Why rich schools aren’t tapping their fortunes to push back against the administration.
There’s more than one thing to do after high school.
The Obamacare wars are back.
The inconvenient truth about trade.
We don’t know what happened to Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts — and it should worry every American.
Even Trump’s lawyers concede that deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was illegal.
The tariffs are a baby tax, too.
Democrats shouldn’t echo Trump’s myths about trade.
Trump’s power to declare a national emergency is a national emergency.
Trump’s crackdown on foreign students and scientists will do irreparable harm to the country.
A conversation with Oren Cass, the right’s point person on tariffs.
Despite the fact there isn’t a plausible argument the Alien Enemies Act can be used to do so.
Tariffs aren’t helping globalization’s losers — they’re victimizing them again.
The true nature of America’s crisis has been revealed.
US health care is never going to be the same.
Trump is imposing ruinous tariffs because American democracy is no longer strong enough to stop him.
Going off to school has never felt more uncertain.
The case should have a clear outcome, but a Republican Court overcomplicates everything that involves abortion.
Despite negative marks on the economy, Trump’s immigration policies are keeping him afloat.
Trump has vowed to impose “reciprocal tariffs” on all nations that he claims disadvantage American products through trade, tax, or regulatory policy.
The connection between housing and fertility rates has a missing piece.
What does Tuesday’s win for Democrats mean for next year’s midterms?
The president claims he can deport people without due process under a wartime law, even though we aren’t at war.
Trump’s team is inadvertently making the case for due process.
The online personality has millions of young fans. Now prominent Democrats are seeking out his advice.
The US economy once looked unstoppable, while Europe’s looked doomed. Not anymore.
How America’s opioid crisis became a foreign policy issue.
Here’s what election law experts say.
A shocking ICE arrest shows how Trump’s immigration policy is also an assault on civil liberties.
Imagine how much worse things would be if the federal government had even more power than it does now.
The retribution presidency, explained.
The courts are acting as a check on executive power. Will it last?
How we design prisons and where we choose to build them says a lot about what we think of the people on the inside.