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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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Access to abortion pills has grown since Dobbs

By Rachel M. Cohen

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The urgent to-do list awaiting Congress in January

By Cameron Peters

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The best ways to help homeless people

By Rachel M. Cohen

Police are solving fewer crimes. Why?

By Hady Mawajdeh

In a big victory for Trump, the Supreme Court tells Jack Smith to go away

By Ian Millhiser

How Republicans are weaponizing antisemitism to take down DEI

By Fabiola Cineas

Everything you need to know about the court order removing Trump from the ballot

By Ian Millhiser

So it’s come to this: We might have to worry about the deficit

By Emily Stewart

Canada is promoting child care for $10 a day

By Rachel M. Cohen

A historian’s advice to the Democrats trying to build stuff

By Rachel M. Cohen

Biden weighs a “shocking” revival of Trump’s immigration agenda

By Nicole Narea

What elite universities — and their critics — get wrong about campus antisemitism

By Nicole Narea

What Trump has already taken from us

By Zack Beauchamp

The Supreme Court case that could shut down Trump’s election theft trial, explained

By Ian Millhiser

What is misoprostol? Crucial questions about the other abortion drug.

By Anna North

The Supreme Court will hear its biggest abortion case since it overruled Roe v. Wade

By Ian Millhiser

Pandemic savings helped keep the economy afloat. What happens when they’re gone?

By Abdallah Fayyad

The sinister court decision denying Kate Cox an abortion, explained

By Ian Millhiser

One Texas case shows why women can’t rely on legal exceptions to abortion bans

By Li Zhou
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Why buying a house in the US is so hard right now

By Adam Freelander

The Israel-Hamas war is tearing American cultural institutions apart

By Marin Cogan

Two new Supreme Court cases ask if there is a right to medically necessary abortion

By Ian Millhiser

The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment

By Dylan Matthews

What to know about the new FAFSA

By Allie Volpe

Nikki Haley’s “rise” and the Republican flight from reality

By Zack Beauchamp

The big bet on “tiny homes” to fix homelessness

By Rachel M. Cohen

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Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney have a plan for national progress

By Bryan Walsh

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Sasha Gallant is making US foreign aid spending smarter

By Oshan Jarow

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Aisha Nyandoro is making guaranteed income a reality in Mississippi

By Sigal Samuel

You can’t even pay people to have more kids

By Anna North

The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do

By Dylan Scott

Many Americans with dementia can’t get the hospice care they need

By Keren Landman

The Israel-Hamas deal is not a real ceasefire

By Zack Beauchamp

We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong

By Oshan Jarow

Why are so few people getting the latest Covid-19 vaccine?

By Dylan Scott

One stat that could spur a compromise on the child tax credit

By Dylan Matthews

When Trump tells you he’s an authoritarian, believe him

By Zack Beauchamp

Biden gives center stage to the climate report Trump tried to bury

By Umair Irfan and Rebecca Leber

Joe Manchin deserves (some) credit for fighting climate change

By Umair Irfan

The other warning Republicans should heed from this year’s elections

By Christian Paz

Psychedelics can have enormous benefits, but the risks shouldn’t be ignored

By Oshan Jarow

You’re more likely to go to prison for exposing animal cruelty than for committing it

By Marina Bolotnikova

In the West Bank, Israeli settlers are on an anti-Palestinian rampage

By Zack Beauchamp