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.
Did the president just blow up Democrats’ model for fighting poverty?
There’s $16 billion in new day care spending tucked inside Trump’s welfare-slashing tax package.
And 3 reasons that explain it.
The push to strip non-native Americans of citizenship echoes a dark chapter in American history.
AI is creating a cheating utopia. Universities don’t know how to respond.
It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring.
Republicans are at varying levels of misleading, avoidance, or denial about this.
The $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts will be felt by all Americans.
California Democrats finally stopped outsourcing their policy judgment to their favorite lobbies.
Despite the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor being labeled a communist, his agenda actually promises something much more ideologically modest.
The Trump administration is withholding nearly $7 billion in education funding.
A bill that will give China the lead in the race for advanced AI.
Trying to keep track of all the chaos is overwhelming. So here’s a one-stop guide to the turmoil this Court caused.
What the debate over “clarification” laws reveals about America three years out from Roe.
What the Idaho student murder investigation tells us about how criminal justice should work.
How Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” attacks abortion and reproductive care, in 2 charts.
The president’s “big, beautiful bill” just got worse.
The Republican justices’ decision fundamentally altered how public schools must operate.
This decision isn’t really about birthright citizenship.
The Republican justices just nuked much of federal Medicaid law, in order to spite Planned Parenthood.
How do you get working moms to stay home — and what happens next?
Republicans are proposing huge cuts to Medicaid. The impact on Americans’ health would be devastating.
The Court picked a hell of a time to give lawsuit immunity to federal law enforcement.
Your brain isn’t what it used to be.
The decision nullifies a treaty designed to protect immigrants from torture.
Two charts that show how the attack on Minnesota lawmakers is part of a dangerous trend.
To save the humanities, we need to rethink our assumptions about AI — and education.
The problem with pancreata.
Democrats can no longer paper over their party’s core contradiction.
Too bad it’s now sabotaging it.
Even with immigration raids, Trump has not surpassed Obama’s record.
How to navigate a world where MAHA is setting vaccine policy.
The old “religious right” is gone. The new one is weirder — and harder to fight.
The very bad reason why the president has escalated his crackdown on the undocumented.
It’s not because he actually wants to end America’s reliance on undocumented labor.
Trump v. AFGE asks if the Republican justices’ new approach to separation of powers applies to Trump.
This is what it’s like to witness ICE raids and protests unfold in the city I was born and raised in.
Republicans are gutting the safety net as job-killing mass automation looms.