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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.

What bullets do to kids

Guns are the leading cause of death for children in the US. A pediatric trauma surgeon describes the physical toll gun violence takes on victims.

By Marin Cogan

Migrants were left for dead in a Mexican detention center. Was it a preventable tragedy?

A deadly fire that killed 38 migrants has led to international calls for an investigation.

By Nicole Narea

What we know about the Nashville school shooting

By Li Zhou March 29

Conservatives are using the tragedy in Nashville to push their anti-trans agenda

By Li Zhou March 29

Refrigerators have gotten really freaking good. Thanks, Jimmy Carter.

By Rebecca Leber March 29

What an assault weapons ban could — and couldn’t — do to end US mass shootings

By Nicole Narea March 28

Heartbreaking: The worst Supreme Court justice you know just made a great point

By Ian Millhiser March 28

How to save America’s public transit systems from a doom spiral

By David Zipper March 27

How the March for Our Lives activists see the country now

By Siona Peterous March 26

What Republicans should learn from French protests over pension cuts

By Nicole Narea March 24

Biden and Trudeau’s immigration deal makes it easier for both countries to turn away asylum seekers

By Li Zhou March 24

Don’t say “period”: How Florida Republicans are taking aim at basic sex education

By Fabiola Cineas March 24

Thanks, Obama! The hilarious reason why a judge just blocked Wyoming’s abortion ban.

By Ian Millhiser March 23

How the US can stop the spread of Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

By Nicole Narea March 23

9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered

By Sara Morrison, Christian Paz, and 1 more March 23

The Fed prioritizes inflation over bank turmoil with its latest rate hike

By Li Zhou March 22

Yes, Trump’s indictment could cause a constitutional crisis. Just look at Israel.

By Zack Beauchamp March 22

The massive Los Angeles public school worker strike, explained

By Nicole Narea March 21

The fight against factory farming is winning criminal trials

By Marina Bolotnikova March 21

The gas stove wars are far from over

By Rebecca Leber March 21

Joe Biden’s first veto takes on Republicans’ war on “woke capitalism”

By Li Zhou March 20

UN climate scientists are running out of ways to warn us

By Rebecca Leber and Umair Irfan March 20

The anti-abortion movement’s next radical legal argument

By Rachel M. Cohen March 20

Wyoming banned the abortion pill. Some states are trying to go even further.

By Ellen Ioanes March 19

Stop requiring college degrees for jobs that don’t need them

By Rachel M. Cohen March 19

The brewing war over who goes hungry in America — and how to feed them

By Kenny Torrella March 18

A new report shows hate crimes on the rise — and it’s probably undercounting them

By Fabiola Cineas March 18

Why 70 percent of the world’s maternal deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa

By Rachel DuRose March 17

The sole US supplier of a major abortion pill said it would not distribute the drug in 31 states

By Rachel M. Cohen March 17

Medicare is being privatized right before our eyes

By Dylan Scott March 17

Will anybody stop that Trump judge from banning abortion pills?

By Ian Millhiser March 16

Should you be worried about your small bank?

By Emily Stewart March 16

Ron DeSantis is using Ukraine aid to win over the GOP base

By Li Zhou March 15

Why the Silicon Valley Bank collapse couldn’t have happened in this one state

By Dylan Matthews March 15

Did the Fed break Silicon Valley Bank?

By Emily Stewart March 14

Why bailouts keep happening even though everyone hates them

By Andrew Prokop March 14

Biden just broke a big climate promise

By Rebecca Leber March 14

A new Supreme Court case could be the most important transgender rights decision ever

By Ian Millhiser March 14

The knowns — and known unknowns — of long Covid, explained

By Dylan Scott March 13

Child labor protections are the latest Republican target

By Ellen Ioanes March 12

No one knows when it is legal to perform medically necessary abortions in Texas

By Ian Millhiser March 12

The UK’s extreme new immigration plans, explained

By Ellen Ioanes March 11