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.
Senate Republicans are taking an enormous risk with the federal bench right now.
The commonsense, zero-cost fix that Congress wouldn’t touch.
The president’s hardline message helped him get elected. Now it appears to be backfiring.
The health care consequences of Trump’s budget bill are already here.
Two forces are reshaping the same future.
Trump’s DOJ turns its back on police reform.
Trump’s DOJ is going soft on corporate crime.
It’s the left vs. the establishment vs. Abundance. Here’s your guide to what’s happening.
The economic logic of deporting undocumented workers doesn’t add up.
Reforming environmental rules is only a small step to rebuilding after wildfires.
And they didn’t even bother to explain themselves.
The change reverses decades of federal policy.
ICE just got its biggest cash infusion in more than two decades. We know how they’re going to spend it.
How a common birth control method became the center of a reckoning.
Trump’s new law is a major change to higher education. Here’s what that means for you.
Are summer camps and family vacations going to be hot beds for measles?
Is there a literacy crisis? Or am I just old?
Did the president just blow up Democrats’ model for fighting poverty?
There’s $16 billion in new day care spending tucked inside Trump’s welfare-slashing tax package.
And 3 reasons that explain it.
The push to strip non-native Americans of citizenship echoes a dark chapter in American history.
AI is creating a cheating utopia. Universities don’t know how to respond.
It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring.
Republicans are at varying levels of misleading, avoidance, or denial about this.
The $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts will be felt by all Americans.
California Democrats finally stopped outsourcing their policy judgment to their favorite lobbies.
Despite the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor being labeled a communist, his agenda actually promises something much more ideologically modest.
The Trump administration is withholding nearly $7 billion in education funding.
A bill that will give China the lead in the race for advanced AI.
Trying to keep track of all the chaos is overwhelming. So here’s a one-stop guide to the turmoil this Court caused.
What the debate over “clarification” laws reveals about America three years out from Roe.
What the Idaho student murder investigation tells us about how criminal justice should work.
How Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” attacks abortion and reproductive care, in 2 charts.
The president’s “big, beautiful bill” just got worse.
The Republican justices’ decision fundamentally altered how public schools must operate.
This decision isn’t really about birthright citizenship.
The Republican justices just nuked much of federal Medicaid law, in order to spite Planned Parenthood.
How do you get working moms to stay home — and what happens next?
Republicans are proposing huge cuts to Medicaid. The impact on Americans’ health would be devastating.