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.
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MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
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While we can’t always predict public political violence, Vox spoke to four experts who can help us understand it.
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Republicans have been essential to gun safety legislation before. They could do it again.
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The classified documents case against Trump hits another major setback before the 2024 election.
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The attempt on Donald Trump is the latest in a wave of political violence.
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Giving people cash makes them less poor. It doesn't fix everything.
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In 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. and, like Trump, survived.
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The attempt on Donald Trump’s life has put the republic in peril.
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Charges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor have been dismissed, and cannot be refiled. Here's what happened.
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A recent poll suggests a reversal in a decades-long trend of the public warming to immigrants. What’s causing the shift?
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Laws require landlords to provide heat. It’s not the same for AC.
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Elite clerics still hold ultimate power.
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Harris flopped in 2020, but a lot has changed in four years.
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The “motherhood penalty” is more complicated than you think.
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France held back the far right. No one knows what’s next.
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The justices are awful at their jobs, and they don’t know that they are awful at their jobs.
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Violent crime is falling. But understanding why it surged during the pandemic is still important.
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The fight to fund Gavi, the international vaccine fund, explained.
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Day care as public safety and public relations.
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The UK is getting a new government. What is it promising to do?
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The driving sounds of EVs, explained by the designers who make them.
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As the GOP’s voting base diversifies, conservative elites are doubling down on white identity politics.
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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.
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The Court's Trump immunity case is a blueprint for dictatorship.
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The debate over maternal deaths, explained.
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A proposed tax hike sparked unrest, but Kenya’s real problem is a debt crisis.
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Some lessons from the two presidents who walked away.
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The rules governing statutory construction often allow judges to choose how they want to read a law.
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The Grants Pass v. Johnson decision does not spell the end to fights over tent encampments in America.
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The case for somebody, anybody else.
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It's a historic rematch, the first ever debate between a sitting president and a former president.
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Vox’s Dylan Matthews sits down with US trade representative Katherine Tai
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We're here to help you understand the state of America on some of the most contested policy areas of the 2024 election.
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The border trends during Biden's presidency, and how his policies played into them, explained.
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Crime is actually falling. Here are three theories on why that doesn't seem to reassure voters.
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The leaked decision is not a victory for abortion rights.
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Should people who quit get unemployment benefits?
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My family reunion is in South Carolina. Essential care for my high-risk pregnancy is not.
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The ripple effects of the fall of Roe extend far beyond abortion.
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Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.
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More refugees live in cities. Could cash help them rebuild their lives?
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US v. Rahimi is completely incoherent, and it faults lower courts for the justices' own incompetence.