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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.
Biden's transparently political attack on asylum put little daylight between him and Trump.
MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
The US shouldn’t give up on congestion pricing.
How the top campus job became so complex and public this year.
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Cities and states aren’t waiting for the federal government to act.
It’s hard to see how they’d do it legally, but this Court has a history of reading the law creatively.
Anti-Palestinian racism is a distinct form of bigotry that's too often ignored.
If the federal government wants to uphold democracy and the rule of law, it can't leave convicting Trump to the states.
Fortson’s shooting deepens longstanding scrutiny of police violence.
A new study finds that combating malaria, TB, and HIV pays for itself 405 times over.
For all the attention on the border, the root causes of migration and the most promising solutions to the US’s broken immigration system are often overlooked.
The end of Gaza's suffering can't wait on Hamas's destruction.
The show that helped free Adnan Syed completely upended how much the average person knows about US legal and prison systems.
We are living in an era of conservative grievance politics.
Was Trump wrongly convicted? The debate, explained.
Even truly repulsive speakers have First Amendment rights.
The end of amateurism finally comes for college sports. Will we miss it?
To clear tent encampments in cities, some leaders urge a focus beyond shelters.
Israel is massacring Palestinians — and undermining its own security in the process.
A defunct federal law is Republicans’ best hope of banning abortion throughout the United States.
A recent poll suggests a reversal in a decades-long trend of the public warming to immigrants. What's causing the shift?
A foreign government is trying to silence US critics of its authoritarian turn — and it's succeeding.
Lawmakers in Minnesota want to cap out-of-pocket child care costs.
Ozempic has become hugely popular. Researchers are racing to learn more about what it does to us.
A Texas man who killed a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 was pardoned yesterday. Here’s what it says about politics in 2024.
Seventy years after the Brown decision, many students are divided by their race and socioeconomic status.
Protecting radical dissent requires tolerating right-wing speech.
Biden is acting like he hates the Chinese more than he likes the climate.
We don’t need apocalyptic economic predictions to advocate for better family policy.
This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight.
With pedestrian and traffic fatalities on the rise, how can the US make its roads safer?
Drivers don’t need to go faster than 20 mph on most city streets.
Mexico City is staring down a water crisis. It won’t be the last city to do so.
Longevity research may not let us live forever — but it could still make our lives better in smaller ways.
A post-Covid pandemic treaty was supposed to be a breakthrough. Instead, it looks like a disappointment.
A new book on youth suicide clusters offers perspective on prevention.
And is it feasible? Plus three other questions about the student protesters’ demands.
Why are more and more older people spending their dying years behind bars?
There are already legal challenges to the new policy, but authorities detained some migrants this week.
The Columbia protests and the debate over pro-Palestinian college students, explained.
Deescalating conflict around protests was possible, but many colleges turned to law enforcement instead.
It’s time to take back the Israel-Palestine debate from the radicals on both sides.