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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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Why a GOP governor’s pardon of a far-right murderer is so chilling

By Eric Levitz

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Why school segregation is getting worse

By Fabiola Cineas

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Make “free speech” a progressive rallying cry again

By Eric Levitz

Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?

By Dylan Matthews

The child care cliff that wasn’t

By Rachel M. Cohen

The 9 worst court decisions since Trump remade the federal judiciary

By Ian Millhiser

Speed limits are too darn high

By Marin Cogan

America’s misunderstood border crisis, in 8 charts

By Nicole Narea

What we know about the police killing of Black Air Force member Roger Fortson

By Li Zhou

North America’s biggest city is running out of water

By Caroline Houck

The real science behind the billionaire pursuit of immortality

By Jacob Sweet

Even as bird flu looms, the world is unlearning Covid’s lessons

By Dylan Scott

Here’s what sociologists want you to know about teen suicide

By Rachel M. Cohen

What does divesting from Israel really mean?

By Nicole Narea

America’s prison system is turning into a de facto nursing home

By Abdallah Fayyad

The UK’s controversial Rwanda deportation plan, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

The lessons from colleges that didn’t call the police

By Abdallah Fayyad

Why America’s Israel-Palestine debate is broken — and how to fix it

By Zack Beauchamp

What if canceling people’s medical debt doesn’t help them?

By Dylan Scott

The history of Arizona’s Civil War-era abortion ban

By Nicole Narea

Marijuana could be classified as a lower-risk drug. Here’s what that means.

By Li Zhou

Want to know how to reduce gun crime? Look at Detroit.

By Marin Cogan

The astonishing radicalism of Florida’s new ban on abortion

By Rachel M. Cohen

After decades of inaction, states are finally stepping up on housing

By Rachel M. Cohen

The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars

By David Zipper

Student protests are testing US colleges’ commitment to free speech

By Miranda Kennedy and Sean Rameswaram

Canada’s polite Trumpism

By Zack Beauchamp

Could a major lawsuit against realtors mean lower home prices?

By Whizy Kim

Lawmakers are overreacting to crime

By Abdallah Fayyad

A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it much easier for criminals to buy guns

By Ian Millhiser

Students protested for Palestine before Israel was even founded

By Fabiola Cineas

The Supreme Court’s likely to make it more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state

By Ian Millhiser

Donald Trump already won the only Supreme Court fight that mattered

By Ian Millhiser

What the Supreme Court case on tent encampments could mean for homeless people

By Rachel M. Cohen

Trump’s jury doesn’t have to like him to be fair to him

By Abdallah Fayyad

Are there really more things going wrong on airplanes?

By Kelsey Piper

Why USC canceled its pro-Palestinian valedictorian

By Fabiola Cineas

The very short Mayorkas impeachment trial, explained

By Li Zhou

Tucker Carlson went after Israel — and his fellow conservatives are furious

By Zack Beauchamp

We can make birth safer for Black mothers. Here’s how.

By Anna North

The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states

By Ian Millhiser

The charitable deduction is a complex, broken mess. There’s a better way.

By Dylan Matthews

Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, explained

By Christian Paz

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