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.
The do’s and don’ts of asking an AI for health advice.
Kennedy’s support is fracturing. The childhood vaccine schedule could break it.
The year child malnutrition flipped, in one chart.
A century ago, cars remade America. Autonomous vehicles could do it again.
How MAHA gets American history wrong.
Raising the retirement age does more to hurt poorer people who live less long.
There’s one big guardrail left on Trump’s ambitions. Democrats are gearing up for a showdown that could destroy it.
His story about the left and the right doesn’t hold up to the facts.
Zeke Emanuel on RFK Jr. and the crisis of faith in public health.
The party should only force a shutdown for its own political gain.
270 million kids won’t be in class this fall. Why?
What cities get right and wrong about tackling empty houses.
Vaccine guidance has never been more confusing. Here’s how to navigate it.
Why you should care about Trump’s crypto ventures.
ICE gets the go-ahead for indiscriminate immigration stops in LA.
Don’t expect the courts to keep ICE under control.
What will come next in the Trump administration’s war on “narcoterrorism”?
The list of eligible jobs is here — and wildly broad.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
A roundtable discussion among leading MAGA intellectuals suggests they might be suffering from success.
The Democrats don’t have a messaging problem. They have a much bigger problem.
Trump brought us the Covid vaccine. Now he’s trying to take it away.
The CDC is collapsing. Will America’s health follow suit?
Here’s how this African country is winning the fight against childhood HIV.
AI in the classroom doesn’t have to be a catastrophe.
The president’s tacky aesthetic is a window into his quest to become the single most enduring symbol of America.
What new research on guaranteed income means — and doesn’t.
US vaccine consensus has officially shattered.
America never recovered from the 2008 crash.
Abrego Garcia could face deportation to Uganda after being detained by ICE.
State trust funds can come with an unexpected cost.
Jessica Knurick explains how to counter MAHA when no one trusts experts.
There’s a long history of using starvation as a weapon of war. But this is different.
Trump’s new fee will make the USAID cuts look like a rounding error in some countries.
Cash transfers can save lives. Just not very cost-effectively.
On the rising tension between Trump’s deportation campaign and his power grab.
Extreme heat is increasing the prevalence of a disease that hits low-income people the hardest.
Does Trump know he’s blowing up the GOP’s future?
The racist history that explains Trump’s federal takeover of DC police.
The largely symbolic move has more to do with politics than supporting Palestinians’ right to self-determination.