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 executive orders expose the strategy: claim to be defending democracy as you dismantle it.
It’s not good.
But its relief might be premature.
Here’s what the data says.
Amid the flurry of executive orders on Day 1, these could prove the most damaging to the republic’s health.
The Laken Riley Act passed with bipartisan support and will upend immigration enforcement.
The Constitution guarantees citizenship to nearly everyone born in the US. Trump wants to take that away.
The outgoing president pardoned Anthony Fauci and the January 6 committee — but the pardons give only limited protection.
The official US poverty rate is based on an outdated metric.
How Trump could use executive orders to force his agenda on America.
The administration’s biggest achievement is something that almost no one has heard about.
Fires worsen our class divides, but how governments respond can make a difference.
Presidents routinely abuse the pardon, but Biden’s record-setting commutations underscore why reforms should be narrow.
Biden knew the border situation meant political disaster. But he struggled for years to address it. Why?
Disasters like the California wildfires are costing kids their education.
The future of the state depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires.
Ozempic is changing the way we think about diet and exercise.
Becerra v. Braidwood Management threatens to make your health insurance worse.
Joe Biden’s fatal flaw led to four years of weakness.
The arc of congestion pricing is long but it bends toward acceptance.
A conversation with Matthew Yglesias.
The Court’s order is exceedingly narrow, but it is still a loss for Trump.
Laws in Australia, Florida, and elsewhere could end up backfiring.
Would Trump actually trigger an economic crisis to try and win a trade war?
Trump is appealing to the same six Republicans who already ruled that he has broad immunity from the law. So he’s probably going to win.
What the author of Vox’s newsletter on conservatism thinks will happen — and why.
The Biden administration announced the rule Tuesday, but it might not last under Trump.
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
Universal programs are much easier to administer than means-tested ones.
The US does need more skilled workers. But that’s not all it needs.
How a consolation prize for unions might screw everyone over — them included.
Understanding your health insurance benefits can seem like an impossible puzzle. Here’s your guide to getting the most out of them.
The Trumpworld feud over H-1B visas, explained.
Tough-on-crime laws are back. But next year could be different.
Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived president in US history, dies at 100.
Democrats moved to the right on immigration. Will sanctuary cities still stand up to Trump?
From strip mall conversions to adult dorms, here are our favorites from this year.
Without enough houses for its growing homeless population, the city is using machine learning to make its process fairer.
It’s easy to feel like gun violence is hopeless and never getting better. 2024 disproves that.
Why young people are getting cancer, problems with OpenAI, and the little intelligence agency that could.