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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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The biggest policy changes in the debt ceiling deal, explained

By Andrew Prokop, Dylan Scott, and 4 more

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What you need to know about the debt ceiling deal

By Vox Staff

How anti-LGBTQ sentiment is affecting Pride

By Ellen Ioanes

Biden and McCarthy’s budget deal to lift the debt ceiling, explained

By Li Zhou and Dylan Matthews

Texas State House votes to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton

By Nicole Narea

A 10-year-old Ohio rape victim got an abortion. Now her doctor is being punished.

By Nicole Narea

The next frontier for Ozempic: Health insurance

By Dylan Scott

Is weed safe in pregnancy?

By Keren Landman

A guide to Ron DeSantis’s most extreme policies in Florida

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou

The latest book ban target: Amanda Gorman’s poem from the Biden inauguration

By Li Zhou

Trump’s worst judge will hear a $1.8 billion attack on Planned Parenthood

By Ian Millhiser

The historic deal to save the Colorado River, explained

By Benji Jones

President Biden’s new executive action is all about children and the internet

By Sara Morrison

9 questions about the debt ceiling, answered

By Li Zhou and Dylan Matthews

9 questions about the attempts to ban TikTok, answered

By Sara Morrison, Christian Paz, and 1 more

Did Biden screw up his debt ceiling strategy?

By Andrew Prokop

Florida is too dangerous to visit, civil rights groups warn

By Nicole Narea

One state just became a national leader on child care. Here’s how they did it.

By Rachel M. Cohen

Why immigration policy is so inhumane

By Kelsey Piper

How Republican states are eroding local democracy

By Ellen Ioanes

The psychedelic renaissance is at risk of missing the bigger picture

By Oshan Jarow

What a debt default could mean for America’s superpower status

By Jen Kirby

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are losing Medicaid every month

By Dylan Scott

The staggering fine print of Texas and Florida’s new anti-trans bills

By Nicole Narea

The Republican plan to take over school boards may be backfiring

By Nicole Narea

The Supreme Court hands down a temporary, but significant, victory for gun control

By Ian Millhiser

What North Carolina’s abortion ban does — and why it matters

By Zack Beauchamp

What happened to the GOP’s promises to support women and families after Roe?

By Dylan Scott

Ron DeSantis’s immigration law is already leading to worker shortages

By Christian Paz

9 questions about Biden’s border policy, answered

By Nicole Narea

An economist spent decades arguing money wouldn’t help schools. His new paper finds it usually does.

By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat

The “return to the office” won’t save the office

By Rani Molla

Title 42 is over. Immigration policy is still broken.

By Ellen Ioanes

4 winners and 1 loser in the EPA’s historic move to limit power plant pollution

By Rebecca Leber

A second Trump administration would be much worse

By Zack Beauchamp

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Prop 12 is a win against factory farming. But the pigs’ lives will still suck.

By Justin Marceau and Doug Kysar

The trillion-dollar coin scheme, explained by the guy who invented it

By Dylan Matthews

The seismic consequences of ending Title 42

By Nicole Narea

The systemic issues revealed by Jordan Neely’s killing, explained

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou

The Republican plan to sneakily cut Medicaid, explained

By Dylan Scott

3 things you should know about the end of the Covid public health emergency

By Dylan Scott

President Biden can end the debt ceiling by himself. But will bonds markets buy it?

By Dylan Matthews

How a warming planet — and a graying population — could keep inflation high for years

By Matthew C. Klein