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.
When it comes to our health, maybe we should be testing and diagnosing less.
Americans remained scared of violent crime. The numbers tell a different story.
Trump is going after Harvard’s international students.
Why people who work could still lose their health insurance.
Tipped workers need a raise, not a tax cut.
One of the GOP justices must have defected in a case about religious schools, but the Court didn’t reveal who it was.
The GOP remains a conspiracy to steal from the poor and give to the rich.
Why the GOP put SALT on the table.
South Sudan isn’t safe. The Trump administration is sending immigrants there anyway.
The policy looks less like a pro-worker tax credit and more like a big business tax cut.
An analysis of the last four months shows public opinion still has sway.
The Supreme Court sided with Trump at the expense of Venezuelan immigrants.
The competing visions for good child care, explained.
The record drop in drug overdose deaths, briefly explained.
The Birthright Citizenship argument wasn’t the only significant news out of the Supreme Court on Thursday.
Activists believe they’ve found a new weapon.
Trump’s new resettlement program ignores the history of apartheid.
Is Trump doing the right thing on animal research for the wrong reasons?
Presidents can’t keep gifts that are worth more than $480 unless they buy them. This plane costs about $400 million.
A movement fueled by conspiracy theories is starting conspiracy theories about its latest nominee.
The president is keeping his hands off Social Security and Medicare — at least for now.
His views on immigration may point to an early clash with the Trump administration.
Her detention “chills the speech of the millions and millions of people who are not citizens,” a federal judge said.
Paying for school could become a lot more difficult — on multiple levels.
The justices will soon decide whether to weaken the courts holding back Trump.
Who is the new pope? What will the new pope do? And other questions, answered.
How Oklahoma’s universal pre-K program became a model for its progressive peers.
Can Trump actually deport immigrants to Libya?
To defend democracy, the courts must rule in favor of a lawmaker who bullied a high school student.
Trump’s latest executive order presents a test for Democrats.
Auto workers supported tariffs to protect their jobs. They caused layoffs instead.
Two cast members of the hit Netflix reality TV show on what the HHS secretary misunderstands about autism.
Advocates are banking on a new use for federal housing vouchers.
The public has largely turned on him — but opinions on some of his policies are nuanced.
Fascism, Bolton told Vox, is “too far above Trump’s capabilities.”
Pro-natalists want America having more babies — but only one of their proposals helps actual children.
The Court’s Christian right makeover of the Constitution enters its endgame.
Fewer people are dying from opioid overdoses. Trump threatens that progress.
His administration is great at breaking things — but it’s failing in its bigger goal.
The potential and limits of “baby bonuses.”