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Even as we celebrate the decrease in projected spending, we can’t be entirely sure that we aren’t worse off because of it.
In the latest episode of The Weeds, Vox’s Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, and Sarah Kliff discuss the SCOTUS deadlock and how it may be a blessing in disguise for the Clinton campaign.
Here’s an underexplored consequence of our national confusion on gun control.
Much of the growth in the recovery has really been concentrated in the most highly populated cities.
How can parents reduce the likelihood of having children who struggle with depression and ADHD?
Let’s imagine a Republican presidential candidate in 2020 who takes all of the same policy positions as Donald Trump.
Or, why the land value tax is pretty awesome.
Ezra and Matt wrestle with why so many voters feel frustrated by the primaries, and what, if anything, can be done to make the system fairer.
Jason Furman on the mystery of men dropping out of work, and more.
We’d never accept banks writing down our information on paper. Why is that okay with doctors?
Get excited.
They had an election.
That’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, in case you were wondering.
No other democracy gives its high court justices life tenure on the bench — so no other country has these unexpected, tumultuous, and sudden vacancies.
Sarah, Ezra, and Matt use the New Hampshire primary results as a lens through which to discuss Jonathan Rauch’s case for “political realism” as a governing philosophy.
Because sometimes we have to talk about politics to talk policy.
The answers, as always, are complex.
There’s an important idea at the core of Bernie Sanders’s campaign, one that was on full display at the last Democratic debate.
State of the Union special.
A very special Christmas edition of Vox’s policy podcast.
Ezra, Sarah, and Matt are reunited at last for a deep dive into why patients in and out of Obamacare are paying more for health insurance.
A striking new data set that shows the baffling variation in how frequently different hospitals perform C-sections rather than traditional childbirths.
In this week’s episode of our podcast, The Weeds, we dive into the weediest question of all — administrative versus survey data.
In this week’s episode of our podcast, The Weeds, we shine the spotlight on one of those policies: the requirement that all chain restaurants have calorie labels.
Welcome to the second episode of Vox’s podcast.
All the policy you can handle, from Ezra Klein, Sarah Kliff, and Matthew Yglesias.