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 question is whether a Republican judiciary will read the entire law governing Trump’s power over DC, or just the part that Trump likes.
Nostalgia is lying to you about how good things were.
How the right-wing network PragerU could fill the void left by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s defunding.
When curing disease is bad for the federal budget.
The president’s economic policy has put unions in an awkward position.
Wall Street may be reeling, but it’s poor and working-class people who’ll be hurt by the Trump’s trade war.
Don’t judge tariffs on how Trump is using them.
Other countries have reliable trains that travel as fast as 200 mph. In the US...not so much.
Republicans want to give Uber workers benefits. There’s a catch.
The US decimated foreign aid budgets. These nations are doubling theirs.
The Ivy League agreements with Trump are a danger to all of higher ed.
Democratic voters sympathize much more with Palestinians than Israelis, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at the party establishment.
The fight over Trump’s most unqualified prosecutor is escalating quickly.
Banning food dye is inconsequential when environmental pollution is killing us.
Sprawl made suburbia affordable. Now it’s breaking it. Here’s what a new vision of the suburbs could look like.
Wesleyan President Michael Roth details the conservative agenda targeting American universities.
How Baltimore explains America’s miraculous murder decline.
Why is Columbia paying the Trump administration $200 million?
If you’re worried about inflation from Trump’s tariffs already, just wait until fall.
The chaos of Trump’s global health cuts make the human toll near-impossible to calculate. That’s by design.
And why it’s not getting cheaper any time soon.
Like much of what Trump touches, the fight over Alina Habba mingles authoritarianism with goonish incompetence.
Senate Republicans are taking an enormous risk with the federal bench right now.
The commonsense, zero-cost fix that Congress wouldn’t touch.
The president’s hardline message helped him get elected. Now it appears to be backfiring.
The health care consequences of Trump’s budget bill are already here.
Two forces are reshaping the same future.
Trump’s DOJ turns its back on police reform.
Trump’s DOJ is going soft on corporate crime.
It’s the left vs. the establishment vs. Abundance. Here’s your guide to what’s happening.
The economic logic of deporting undocumented workers doesn’t add up.
Reforming environmental rules is only a small step to rebuilding after wildfires.
And they didn’t even bother to explain themselves.
The change reverses decades of federal policy.
ICE just got its biggest cash infusion in more than two decades. We know how they’re going to spend it.
How a common birth control method became the center of a reckoning.
Trump’s new law is a major change to higher education. Here’s what that means for you.
Are summer camps and family vacations going to be hot beds for measles?
Is there a literacy crisis? Or am I just old?