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.
We’ve forgotten how radical household appliances are.
The end of pandemics is within reach. Why aren’t we acting like it?
The people likely to be sending them are victims, too.
“I literally can’t think of anything that’s been like that since 2001.”
Vox’s Astead Herndon and immigration reporter Molly O’Toole unpack the latest (confusing) polls.
The Supreme Court might take away Trump’s international weapon of first resort.
Can “affordability” be more than just a campaign pitch?
My eyes are part of my body. Why do I have separate vision benefits?
Choosing health insurance in the US is notoriously difficult. Let this guide help.
One of the Democrats’ best political issues is to defend to Affordable Care Act. Is it worth defending?
An obscure health insurance alternative is seeing tremendous growth. But there’s a catch.
More than half of seniors will sign up for a private version of Medicare this open enrollment. What happened?
Creditors have a new obsession.
How we pay for going to the dentist is supremely screwed up.
A new purge of ICE leaders and the empowerment of Border Patrol sets the stage for a more extreme crackdown in US cities.
The government shutdown and the new war on food stamps.
Officers shot his friend and fellow pastor with a pepper bullet. He kept going back to protest.
The justices could hand Trump the power to deploy troops anywhere, anytime — and against Americans.
In his second term, Trump’s rhetoric and policies regarding the trans community have become far more menacing.
Tenants are going on strike against their landlords.
Broadly, there are 5 ways to constrain rogue federal law enforcement agents. The Supreme Court nuked 3 of them.
More cities are finally choosing bikes over cars.
Airstrikes, bounties, a military build-up: This could be about drugs — or it could be the start of regime change.
The president earned positive coverage nonetheless for proposals that won’t help most patients.
The diehard MAGA lawmaker’s new fight with the GOP, explained.
The CDC has lost one-third of its staff this year. What now?
They unite — and divide — a deeply polarized audience.
The retro, cryptofascist aesthetic of all those ICE recruitment ads, explained.
Enforcing the border doesn’t require nullifying the Constitution.
An expert on political violence offers warnings — and some hope.
We’ve made tremendous progress against famine — but hunger hasn’t disappeared.
The NYC mayoral candidate’s new proposal spotlights a flaw in progressive thought.
The Republican justices seem eager to kill state bans on anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy.
And can Trump actually do something about it?
Trump is attempting to deploy the National Guard in Portland and Chicago.
The president’s new plan to slash drug prices is “a splashy announcement without a lot of substance.”
Why Trump is claiming drug cartels are attacking the US.
Talk less about health care, more about authoritarianism.
It depends on who you ask.
