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.
His administration is now openly advancing a worldview built by white nationalists in the 2010s.
The former president of Honduras was convicted of trafficking cocaine. Why did Trump pardon him?
As the US considers strikes on Venezuela, another Latin American country has caught the president’s attention.
How the Secretary of State is trying to balance his hawkish instincts against his MAGA doctrine.
One of humanity’s biggest achievements may be slipping away.
An entrepreneur explains what’s broken about America’s system for skilled immigration.
The world is aging out of killing one another.
Police body cameras were supposed to ensure justice. They’ve turned into YouTube content.
Venezuela and the new war on terror, explained.
Can urban America learn to love kids again?
RFK Jr. and his supporters are asking the wrong questions about these medications.
Why the Trump administration is cutting out a country that needs it most.
Meet the heroes keeping global progress alive.
CEO Alexander Berger on how the funder’s second act aims to show that effective giving can scale up
It’s time to rethink a key pillar of the American dream.
How Trump is starting to make Hispanic Republicans uneasy.
And what, if anything, should be done about it?
New data shows foreign PhD enrollment remains steady, but the risks to America’s foreign talent pipeline are growing.
Millions of Americans will soon go without insurance. We spoke with some of them.
Will JD Vance’s vision set the GOP’s course after Trump?
Another open enrollment, another eye-popping premium increase. Why?
Yes, polls showed more people blaming Trump. But on their substantive demands, the party was drawing dead.
The Republican justices find something they care about more than they care about religion.
We’ve forgotten how radical household appliances are.
The end of pandemics is within reach. Why aren’t we acting like it?
The people likely to be sending them are victims, too.
“I literally can’t think of anything that’s been like that since 2001.”
Vox’s Astead Herndon and immigration reporter Molly O’Toole unpack the latest (confusing) polls.
The Supreme Court might take away Trump’s international weapon of first resort.
Can “affordability” be more than just a campaign pitch?
My eyes are part of my body. Why do I have separate vision benefits?
Choosing health insurance in the US is notoriously difficult. Let this guide help.
One of the Democrats’ best political issues is to defend to Affordable Care Act. Is it worth defending?
An obscure health insurance alternative is seeing tremendous growth. But there’s a catch.
More than half of seniors will sign up for a private version of Medicare this open enrollment. What happened?
Creditors have a new obsession.
How we pay for going to the dentist is supremely screwed up.
A new purge of ICE leaders and the empowerment of Border Patrol sets the stage for a more extreme crackdown in US cities.
The government shutdown and the new war on food stamps.