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.
A moment of truth in Minnesota.
It’s obvious that the Court isn’t actually trying to come up with a legal rule that makes sense.
Ugliness has more to do with the housing crisis than you think.
What comes after “peak protein”?
The MAGA media system is going into overdrive.
The answer could hinge on a Supreme Court ruling from 1890 — and another from 2025.
One of Zohran Mamdani’s most expensive ideas has surprising early momentum.
Since Renee Good’s killing, more residents are trying to protect their neighbors themselves.
The government is recruiting ICE agents with (literal) neo-Nazi propaganda.
The agency’s new math to favor polluters, explained.
Here’s what ChatGPT Health can actually tell you — and what it can’t.
The Trump administration is cracking down on borrowers who have fallen behind on payments.
The Court must deal with the chaos it created around guns.
The Fed is the final frontier of his quest to dominate every economic institution.
Chief Justice Roberts owes Powell an apology.
Trump picked the worst possible time to go after Jerome Powell.
A system built to stop government from doing harm stopped it from doing anything.
What ICE is doing in American cities is very distinct.
One of the most consequential changes to immigration in the US under Trump, explained.
RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.
Wildfires destroyed 13,000 homes. In LA County, just 7 have been rebuilt.
It’s also a contradictory mess.
The Twin Cities were already on edge. Now they’re full of anguish.
The short answer is that it is unclear.
The fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis, briefly explained.
One of Trump’s most high-profile DOJ appointments faces a rare disciplinary threat from the bench.
New York City’s congestion pricing experiment, explained in one chart.
Oops.
After Venezuela, how far could Trump really go?
Bogotá’s radical experiment in caregiving is going global.
8 ways the administration has undermined data collection this year.
Conservatives want more parents at home. Here’s how to do it.
Yes, there is a downside to GLP-1 drugs — if you aren’t careful.
Vox staff picks for favorite stories of the year, from Madagascar’s coral reefs to Hungary’s lessons for the US.
Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”
Ezra Klein talks Zohran Mamdani and one year of his new book with Vox’s Astead Herndon.
What Katie Wilson thinks national Democrats should learn from her win.
De-extinction, drinking, and a whole new thing that could end the world.
Social media bans don’t have to be just for children.
Guns, God, gays, and abortion dominate the Trump era Supreme Court’s docket.