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.
AI in the classroom doesn’t have to be a catastrophe.
The president’s tacky aesthetic is a window into his quest to become the single most enduring symbol of America.
What new research on guaranteed income means — and doesn’t.
US vaccine consensus has officially shattered.
America never recovered from the 2008 crash.
Abrego Garcia could face deportation to Uganda after being detained by ICE.
State trust funds can come with an unexpected cost.
Jessica Knurick explains how to counter MAHA when no one trusts experts.
There’s a long history of using starvation as a weapon of war. But this is different.
Trump’s new fee will make the USAID cuts look like a rounding error in some countries.
Cash transfers can save lives. Just not very cost-effectively.
On the rising tension between Trump’s deportation campaign and his power grab.
Extreme heat is increasing the prevalence of a disease that hits low-income people the hardest.
Does Trump know he’s blowing up the GOP’s future?
The racist history that explains Trump’s federal takeover of DC police.
The largely symbolic move has more to do with politics than supporting Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
The question is whether a Republican judiciary will read the entire law governing Trump’s power over DC, or just the part that Trump likes.
Nostalgia is lying to you about how good things were.
How the right-wing network PragerU could fill the void left by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s defunding.
When curing disease is bad for the federal budget.
The president’s economic policy has put unions in an awkward position.
Wall Street may be reeling, but it’s poor and working-class people who’ll be hurt by the Trump’s trade war.
Don’t judge tariffs on how Trump is using them.
Other countries have reliable trains that travel as fast as 200 mph. In the US...not so much.
Republicans want to give Uber workers benefits. There’s a catch.
The US decimated foreign aid budgets. These nations are doubling theirs.
The Ivy League agreements with Trump are a danger to all of higher ed.
Democratic voters sympathize much more with Palestinians than Israelis, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at the party establishment.
The fight over Trump’s most unqualified prosecutor is escalating quickly.
Banning food dye is inconsequential when environmental pollution is killing us.
Sprawl made suburbia affordable. Now it’s breaking it. Here’s what a new vision of the suburbs could look like.
Wesleyan President Michael Roth details the conservative agenda targeting American universities.
How Baltimore explains America’s miraculous murder decline.
Why is Columbia paying the Trump administration $200 million?
If you’re worried about inflation from Trump’s tariffs already, just wait until fall.
The chaos of Trump’s global health cuts make the human toll near-impossible to calculate. That’s by design.
And why it’s not getting cheaper any time soon.
Like much of what Trump touches, the fight over Alina Habba mingles authoritarianism with goonish incompetence.
Senate Republicans are taking an enormous risk with the federal bench right now.