Social Policy
Vox’s coverage of social policy, from food stamps to paternity leave to gun control.
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“People get into ‘big is bad, small is good.’ It’s not that simple.”
Why activists are interrupting Bernie Sanders events to challenge the candidate and his supporters to keep racial justice front and center
Canada has twice as much transit as the US. Why?
The GOP’s rightward shift on abortion could come back to haunt the party’s nominee in 2016.
Love whiskey? You would have gone broke during the war.
The joke candidate offers a smart idea on health care. The serious ones offer joke ideas.
They want to give middle-class parents a break.
Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio, and maybe John Kasich won, and Fox took sides against Donald Trump.
The Florida senator wants to limit abortion as much as possible.
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The island just defaulted on its debts. Its governor says it’s facing a “death spiral.” And now its fate is up to — gulp — Congress.
See who built up her taxable income by paying the Clintons to speak in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
If this is the best they’ve got...
I didn’t know how broken America’s safety net was until my sister-in-law became paralyzed.
In a wide-ranging discussion, Bernie Sanders discusses his views on socialism, single payer, open borders, Zionism, and more.
Faster-than-ever technological and economic change is a myth. In fact, productivity is slowing down — and that’s the biggest problem we face.
Hillary Clinton’s next big policy idea is going to be a revamp of how investment income is taxed in the United States.
“A man too arrogant, too self-absorbed, to seek God’s forgiveness is precisely the type of leader John Adams prayed would never occupy the White House.”
This is getting ridiculous.
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Actually, his family was murdered in the Holocaust, and he’s a pretty standard labor liberal.
The Earned Income Tax Credit is twice as effective as government estimates suggest, according to a new study.
His slogan: “Reform. Growth. Safety.”
He’s easily the most conservative of the three Republicans most likely to win the nomination.
“When Scott says it, people think he means it. This is a very big stumbling block for him on Wall Street.”
The intellectual origins of a broad turn to the left
The Democratic frontrunner will attack the Reagan-era economic theories of Republican rivals and begin to lay out her own vision for the American economy on Monday.
With the possibility of a Greek exit, the remaining members of the euro can, and should, push for closer union.
Tennessee’s tax code increases inequality a *lot*.
Housing regulations, copyright and patent laws, and immigration restrictions are holding back the US economy.
The New Jersey governor is a foreign policy hawk, a tax-cutter, and has straddled the line on social issues.
The true origins of the default crisis, the role of austerity, and the path forward.
Greece is falling apart. Here’s why.
An interview with economist Adam Posen.
The rise of SCOTUS Justice and internet phenomenon Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
They don’t care about health reform enough to pay its cost.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in allowing disparate impact claims, an important part of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal just announced his presidential campaign. Here’s where Jindal stands on the issues.