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Policy

“She hardly goes out”: Racism is keeping many Asian Americans from going to the doctor

Pandemic-related hate crimes against Asian Americans have left many feeling unsafe in public. The consequences of missed health care will have lasting effects.

By Jenny Chen June 30

Health care in jails and prisons is terrible. The pandemic made it even worse.

By Victoria Law June 28

The biggest myths about gas prices

By Rebecca Leber June 27

What Americans think about abortion, in 3 charts

By Rani Molla June 24

What’s the best way to help extremely poor people? After 20 years, the evidence is in.

By Sigal Samuel June 24

Afghanistan’s staggering set of crises, explained

By Jen Kirby June 23

The SEC did a sensible thing on climate change. A right-wing campaign is trying to kill it.

By Rebecca Leber June 21

What gas prices do — and don’t — tell us about the economy

By Rebecca Leber June 17

The federal government started New Mexico’s largest wildfire. It had good intentions.

By Neel Dhanesha June 15

How the US is failing refugees, in one chart

By Sigal Samuel June 14

Evictions are life-altering — and preventable

By Rachel M. Cohen June 14

“We’re expected to be human shields”: Teachers are unprotected — and scared

By Fabiola Cineas June 13

How to prevent gun deaths without gun control

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg June 3

How to prevent another white supremacist massacre

By Fabiola Cineas June 1

A study gave cash and therapy to men at risk of criminal behavior. 10 years later, the results are in.

By Sigal Samuel May 31

How America fails children

By Dylan Scott May 26

America’s gun violence epidemic, in one chart

By Rani Molla May 25

How much longer can Google own the internet?

By Sara Morrison May 20

New York’s restrictive gun laws didn’t stop the Buffalo shooter

By Nicole Narea May 18

Carrick Flynn may be 2022’s unlikeliest candidate. Here’s why he’s running.

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg and Dylan Matthews May 14

How to give future humans a voice in government

By Sigal Samuel May 11

Does Democrats’ support for unions extend to their own employees?

By Li Zhou May 9

The solution to “differential demography” is more migration

By Bryan Walsh May 9

Over 60 million Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically

By Dylan Matthews May 5

Can the expanded child tax credit come back from the dead?

By Rachel M. Cohen April 29

Time is running out for Biden’s EPA to act on climate

By Rebecca Leber April 28

Where the guaranteed income movement is going next

By Sigal Samuel April 28

Who killed the expanded child tax credit?

By Dylan Matthews April 18

They warned about pandemics before Covid-19. Now they have a $100 billion plan to stop the next one.

By Dylan Matthews April 12

A new documentary looks at women who survived domestic violence — then faced jail time

By Marin Cogan April 6

Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Big Everything

By Sara Morrison April 5

Federal marijuana legalization is stopped in its tracks

Public opinion, states, and even the GOP have come around to the idea of legal weed. So how hard is it to finally get done?

By Mary Jane Gibson March 31

What an anti-lynching law means in 2022

By Fabiola Cineas March 29

In defense of pre-K

By Kevin Carey March 23

The Senate just voted to make daylight saving time permanent. Good.

By Brian Resnick March 15

How high can gas prices go?

By Rebecca Leber March 10

The unprecedented American sanctions on Russia, explained

By Ben Walsh March 9

The nerdiest article you’ll read about the baseball lockout

By Dara Lind March 8

How war became a crime

By Dylan Matthews March 6

Tax the land

By Jerusalem Demsas March 4