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 Court picked a hell of a time to give lawsuit immunity to federal law enforcement.
Your brain isn’t what it used to be.
The decision nullifies a treaty designed to protect immigrants from torture.
Two charts that show how the attack on Minnesota lawmakers is part of a dangerous trend.
To save the humanities, we need to rethink our assumptions about AI — and education.
The problem with pancreata.
Democrats can no longer paper over their party’s core contradiction.
Too bad it’s now sabotaging it.
Even with immigration raids, Trump has not surpassed Obama’s record.
How to navigate a world where MAHA is setting vaccine policy.
The old “religious right” is gone. The new one is weirder — and harder to fight.
The very bad reason why the president has escalated his crackdown on the undocumented.
It’s not because he actually wants to end America’s reliance on undocumented labor.
Trump v. AFGE asks if the Republican justices’ new approach to separation of powers applies to Trump.
This is what it’s like to witness ICE raids and protests unfold in the city I was born and raised in.
Republicans are gutting the safety net as job-killing mass automation looms.
Trump has expanded presidential power to ban broad groups of immigrants.
Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.
Trump’s crackdown on the LA protests is a dramatic escalation of his assault on Americans’ rights. Is it legal?
The autism commission is doomed to fail.
If passed, President Donald Trump’s signature legislation would make college more expensive.
Tuskegee University’s president explains how he’s approaching this Trump administration.
What is “coercive control”?
Trump’s latest policy will impact millions of people around the world.
Mexico’s attempt to cut off the flow of guns to drug cartels dies in the Supreme Court.
In his latest move, Trump is attacking the people who have helped bail out American higher education.
A smaller government would not necessarily protect American democracy from Trump.
Inside a red state where universal pre-K is incredibly popular.
Democrats should debate messaging less (and policy more).
Our economy isn’t built for the biological clock. But it can be.
Trump wants to blow a $3 trillion hole in the budget. The bond market is saying “no way.”
Trump may kick half a million immigrants, from nations with unstable or authoritarian regimes, out of the US.
An unlikely alliance is supporting a new bipartisan bill in Congress.
Criticism of Israel is ramping up. What does that mean for the war in Gaza?
When animal cruelty trumps capitalism.
The real cost of forcing foreign students away from elite universities like Harvard.
Do we need apartment buildings to have two staircases?
Uh oh, the quest for a safer cigarette may have backfired.