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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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Should schools lock up kids’ cellphones?

By Anna North

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Trump is suddenly in need of a lot of cash. That’s everyone’s problem.

By Abdallah Fayyad

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Psychedelics are about to become a casualty of Oregon’s opioid crisis

By Oshan Jarow

US maternal deaths could be lower than we thought — but there are still far too many

By Li Zhou

Why abortion politics might not carry Democrats again in 2024

By Rachel M. Cohen

How to think about Boeing’s recent safety issues

By Marin Cogan

The shocking Boeing 737 Max incident, briefly explained

By Li Zhou

Biden isn’t advertising America’s record oil boom

By Nicole Narea

Are men and women growing apart politically? Not so fast.

By Zack Beauchamp

Spring is here very early. That’s not good.

By Li Zhou

Trump just opened the door to Social Security cuts. Take him seriously.

By Eric Levitz

The Supreme Court may let Texas get away with a totally unconstitutional deportation law

By Ian Millhiser

How dangerous is New York City, anyway?

By Marin Cogan

Want financial security in America? Better get married.

By Anna North

A utopian strand of economic thought is making a surprising comeback

By Oshan Jarow

Do Americans still have a right to privacy?

By Ian Millhiser

Are Biden and the Democrats finally turning on Israel?

By Zack Beauchamp

Biden’s State of the Union got one big thing right

By Zack Beauchamp

IVF is popular — and imperiled

By Aubrey Hirsch

The Republican primary was a joke. It tells us something deadly serious.

By Zack Beauchamp

What Biden could do to bring grocery prices down

By Miles Bryan and Noel King

Abortion meds can now be sold in drugstores. Here’s why that’s so important.

By Keren Landman, MD

Republicans’ voter suppression obsession may end up helping ... Democrats?

By Eric Levitz

How the federal government bungled student aid this year

By Fabiola Cineas

Fetal personhood laws, explained

By Anna North

The courts were never going to save America from Donald Trump

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court just crushed any hope that Trump could be removed from the ballot

By Ian Millhiser

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

By Dylan Matthews

The anti-abortion playbook for restricting birth control

By Rachel M. Cohen

America has a good model for how to handle immigration: America

By Abdallah Fayyad

Driving at ridiculous speeds should be physically impossible

By David Zipper

Trump’s immigration policies are his old ones — but worse

By Li Zhou

The Supreme Court just handed Trump an astonishing victory

By Ian Millhiser

How Amy Coney Barrett could save us from fully legal automatic weapons

By Ian Millhiser

Can Biden contain the fallout from his Gaza policy in Michigan?

By Nicole Narea

A guide to starting your mental health journey

By Keren Landman, MD

Biden has been bad for Palestinians. Trump would be worse.

By Zack Beauchamp

Why elite colleges are bringing the SAT back

By Fabiola Cineas

This ballot measure would restore Roe. Abortion rights groups are attacking it.

By Rachel M. Cohen

Older Americans are working longer. Some want to; others have to.

By Whizy Kim

I got to see the IRS’s free tax-filing software in action. Here’s what I learned.

By Dylan Matthews

Alabama’s IVF warning to the country

By Rachel M. Cohen

American drivers are now even more distracted by their phones. Pedestrian deaths are soaring.

By Marin Cogan

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