Politics & Policy

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The return of the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case against Trump, explained

New York prosecutors are pursuing charges. But how strong is their case?

By Andrew Prokop

Alec Baldwin’s criminal charges and Rust’s chaotic production, explained

The 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was an accident everyone saw coming.

By Aja Romano

Did George Santos lie about everything?

By Ben Jacobs January 31

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What we know about the killing of Tyre Nichols

By Vox Staff January 30

Lawmakers won’t compromise on police reform. Will Tyre Nichols’s killing change that?

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou January 30

Clean energy is taking over the Texas grid. State officials are trying to stop it.

By Umair Irfan January 30

Ron DeSantis wants to make it much easier for the government to kill people

By Ian Millhiser January 30

With coworkers like Marjorie Taylor Greene, what can Democrats do on oversight?

By Christian Paz January 29

How years of instability came to a head in Peru

By Ellen Ioanes January 29

Trump struggles to define himself at his first public campaign stop

By Ben Jacobs January 28

The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, explained

By Nicole Narea, Sean Collins, and 1 more January 28

What we learned from the Tyre Nichols video

By Ellen Ioanes January 28

In the last 48 hours, violence in Israel and Palestine has spiked

By Jonathan Guyer January 27

The Pelosi attack is the culmination of longtime GOP hate-mongering

By Nicole Narea January 27

The stunning hypocrisy of Bill Barr’s probe into the Russia-Trump investigation

By Andrew Prokop January 27

Believe it or not, we are not going to be sick forever

By Dylan Scott January 27

Why Teslas keep catching on fire

By Rebecca Heilweil January 27

California’s Senate race is about to get a whole lot messier

By Christian Paz January 26

TikTok’s master plan to win over Washington

By Sara Morrison January 26

FairTax, the GOP plan for a 30 percent national sales tax, explained

By Dylan Matthews January 26

Asian Americans are reeling from California’s back-to-back mass shootings

By Li Zhou January 26

Trump hasn’t changed. But Facebook is giving him a second chance.

By Shirin Ghaffary January 25

Why older mass shooters like the California gunmen are so rare

By Nicole Narea January 25

Gas stoves and the problematic politics of sacrifice

By Kelsey Piper January 25

Trump’s worst judge is now a dangerous threat to press freedom

By Ian Millhiser January 25

How the Voting Rights Act ended up back at the Supreme Court

By Jonquilyn Hill January 24

America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained

By Nicole Narea, Li Zhou, and 1 more January 24

“A made-up life”: Congress has never seen anyone like George Santos

By Ben Jacobs January 24

Cat Person, Brett Kavanaugh, Fair Play, and the anger of entitled men

By Alissa Wilkinson January 24

Yes, you can have kids and fight climate change at the same time

By Bryan Walsh January 24

Why California’s strict gun control laws didn’t stop the Monterey Park shooter

By Nicole Narea January 23

The Federal Reserve is starting a climate experiment

By Umair Irfan January 23

Your segregated town might finally be in trouble

By Rachel M. Cohen January 23

Ruben Gallego’s Kyrsten Sinema challenge is on — with big implications for Democrats’ future

By Christian Paz January 23

Ukraine has a new cache of weapons on the way — but not German tanks

By Ellen Ioanes January 22

The coming legal showdown over abortion pills

By Ian Millhiser January 22

Dobbs didn’t end the anti-abortion movement

By Ellen Ioanes January 21

Jacinda Ardern is a global icon — but she’s still a politician

By Ellen Ioanes January 21

5 myths about gas stoves, the latest culture war clash

By Rebecca Leber January 20

Were bivalent boosters worth it?

By Keren Landman January 20

When hospitals merge, patients suffer

By Dylan Scott January 20

A new study says Russian trolls didn’t sway the 2016 election. Was the threat overhyped?

By Andrew Prokop January 20