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.
Should people who quit get unemployment benefits?
Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.
Who’s eligible, is it legal, and other key questions, answered.
Biden's transparently political attack on asylum put little daylight between him and Trump.
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Day care as public safety and public relations.
The UK is getting a new government. What is it promising to do?
The driving sounds of EVs, explained by the designers who make them.
As the GOP’s voting base diversifies, conservative elites are doubling down on white identity politics.
The US doesn‘t have federal heat protections. A standard would save lives. As a heat dome suffocates much of the East, it‘s becoming more apparent that we need better standards in the face of climate change.
The Court's Trump immunity case is a blueprint for dictatorship.
The debate over maternal deaths, explained.
A proposed tax hike sparked unrest, but Kenya’s real problem is a debt crisis.
Some lessons from the two presidents who walked away.
The rules governing statutory construction often allow judges to choose how they want to read a law.
The Grants Pass v. Johnson decision does not spell the end to fights over tent encampments in America.
The case for somebody, anybody else.
It's a historic rematch, the first ever debate between a sitting president and a former president.
Vox’s Dylan Matthews sits down with US trade representative Katherine Tai
We're here to help you understand the state of America on some of the most contested policy areas of the 2024 election.
The border trends during Biden's presidency, and how his policies played into them, explained.
Crime is actually falling. Here are three theories on why that doesn't seem to reassure voters.
The leaked decision is not a victory for abortion rights.
My family reunion is in South Carolina. Essential care for my high-risk pregnancy is not.
The ripple effects of the fall of Roe extend far beyond abortion.
More refugees live in cities. Could cash help them rebuild their lives?
US v. Rahimi is completely incoherent, and it faults lower courts for the justices' own incompetence.
Declining birth rates do matter, but we need to approach them thoughtfully.
El Salvador has touted its tough-on-crime policies (and kept quiet on human rights issues). Now everyone wants to try.
What is the wet bulb temperature? And why is it so important?
Other countries have social safety nets. The US has debt.
But they’re right that something has changed in American cities.
The president is trying to have it both ways. Will it work?
Churches, mosques, and temples could change the game on affordable housing.
On a party line vote, the Court legalized “bump stocks,” which convert semiautomatic guns into fully automatic ones.
The decision is unanimous, but it leaves open two routes Republicans could take to pull mifepristone from the market.
A bold experiment to help tenants is advancing.
The data on prices is getting better, but the public’s disapproval of the president remains unchanged.
NYC’s very good plan to fix traffic fell victim to a very bad argument. And it's not just New York.
Too many pedestrians are dying on US roads. Changing car safety ratings could save lives.
The US shouldn’t give up on congestion pricing.
How the top campus job became so complex and public this year.
Cities and states aren’t waiting for the federal government to act.