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.

Homeless encampments — and the debate over what to do about them — explained

By Rachel M. Cohen March 8

Congress’s attempt to overturn a crime law makes the case for DC statehood

By Li Zhou March 7

Donald Trump is now fully at war with the Republican Party’s past

By Ben Jacobs March 4

SNAP boosts kept millions out of poverty during Covid. Now they’re gone.

By Ellen Ioanes March 4

America’s school lunch crisis

By Anna North March 2

The Chicago mayor’s race shows Democrats still have a crime problem

By Christian Paz March 1

The campaign to make insulin less expensive just scored a major victory

By Dylan Scott March 1

The big, neglected problem that should be Biden’s top priority

By Rachel M. Cohen March 1

You probably won’t get any student loan relief, thanks to a GOP-controlled Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser February 28

Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke” in Florida schools, explained

By Fabiola Cineas February 28

How the US can stick the landing, beat inflation, and avoid a recession

By Mike Konczal February 28

Cars transformed America. They also made people more vulnerable to the police.

By Marin Cogan February 28

Texas asks a Trump judge to declare most of the federal government unconstitutional

By Ian Millhiser February 26

The real problem with AP classes

By Fabiola Cineas February 26

The pay gap between hospital CEOs and nurses is expanding even faster than we thought

By Dylan Scott February 24

The overlooked message behind Republicans’ response to the Ohio train derailment

By Ben Jacobs February 23

Progress Report: America’s Schools

By Vox Staff February 23

Nobody knows what the point of homework is

By Jacob Sweet February 23

How Biden came to embrace Trumpian border policies

By Nicole Narea February 22

Mexico’s top cop is on trial along with the war on drugs

By Haleema Shah February 22

The racist idea that changed American education

By Matt Barnum February 22

Conservatives’ war on emotions in the classroom

By Fabiola Cineas February 22

What Europe showed the world about renewable energy

By Rebecca Leber February 21

America’s after-school afterthought

By Rachel M. Cohen February 21

The other long Covid: The damage done to a generation of schoolchildren

By Bryan Walsh February 21

Would better regulations and equipment mandates have prevented the Ohio rail disaster?

By Jariel Arvin February 18

Yes, the Ohio train wreck is an environmental disaster. No, it’s not Chernobyl.

By Benji Jones February 18

The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, explained

By Nicole Narea, Sean Collins, and 1 more February 17

The radical proposal to let Medicare and Social Security lapse, explained

By Dylan Scott February 17

A new Supreme Court decision leaves a Trump judge in charge of the Mexican border

By Ian Millhiser February 16

This Penn professor has been offending minorities for years. Will tenure save her?

By Jack Meserve February 16

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

By Nicole Narea February 15

The new Congress is enlisting kids in its ongoing fight with Big Tech

By Sara Morrison February 15

10 years ago, we were turning nuclear bombs into nuclear energy. We can do it again.

By Irina Wang February 14

The Supreme Court showdown over Biden’s student debt relief program, explained

By Ian Millhiser February 13

It’s official. Trump is back on Facebook and Instagram.

By Shirin Ghaffary February 9

The controversy over AP African American studies, explained

By Fabiola Cineas February 9

How to go car-free — or car-light — in Middle America

By Angie Schmitt February 9

Democrats build on midterm wins with new control of Pennsylvania House

By Nicole Narea February 8

Why Republicans heckled Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech

By Ben Jacobs February 8