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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.

Trump just appeared in court to face criminal charges. What’s next?

Trump’s arraignment in New York is only the beginning.

By Nicole Narea

Can we solve the EpiPen cost crisis?

Some families are still spending thousands of dollars per year on lifesaving medication. Policymakers are finally doing something about it.

By Dylan Scott

Why fear of crime more than crime itself is holding back America’s downtowns

By Miles Bryan April 3

Seattle may have figured out how to get more poor people into better housing

By Dylan Matthews April 3

The thread that ties the recent chemical spills together

By Rebecca Leber April 2

What is Narcan? The opioid overdose spray, explained.

By Dylan Scott March 31

The Catch-22 of indicting Trump

By Zack Beauchamp March 31

The best precedent for Trump’s indictment is (gulp) Israel

By Zack Beauchamp March 31

The lawsuit that threatens everything from cancer screenings to birth control, explained

By Ian Millhiser March 30

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

By Nicole Narea March 30

Why train derailments involving hazardous chemicals keep happening

By Li Zhou March 30

Never pay a medical bill without asking these questions first

By Allie Volpe March 30

What bullets do to kids

By Marin Cogan March 29

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

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