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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.
A major study backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman shows unconditional cash has benefits that have nothing to do with AI.
A major study backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman shows unconditional cash has benefits that have nothing to do with AI.
A new report outlines policy options for who gets to sell psychedelics, and who gets to buy them.
MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
The incoming president appears committed to placing awesome prosecutorial power in the hands of his loyalists.
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Presidential powers to use the military domestically are broad, but not absolute.
Getting rid of the agency would cause a lot of harm and wouldn’t really change school curriculum.
There’s a brewing fight over what Trumpism really stands for, one that pits Trump’s top allies against each other.
If enacted, his plan could remake world trade — and squeeze US consumers.
Advocates fear half-measures could undermine their long-term goals.
Trump shunned Project 2025. He’s picking its authors for Cabinet positions anyway.
America, before and after vaccines.
The Constitution guarantees citizenship to nearly everyone born in the US. Trump wants to take that away.
There’s little Trump could immediately do to threaten the Federal Reserve’s independence.
He didn’t just get unlucky. He botched the response.
What Trump’s return could mean for the global poor.
The Biden administration proposed a change to school athletics that sought a compromise.
Some of Trump’s picks are normal. Others look a lot like choices made by authoritarians abroad.
Science should be bipartisan. Why is our confidence split down party lines?
Trump could weaponize Title IX against trans kids.
Trump’s gains with Black and Latino voters tell us something important. But so does his very white base.
We can fix our staggering car fatality crisis. Start with these roads.
The new presidential commission sounds like a joke. It isn’t.
From start to finish, Palestinians became a target, and candidates were only interested in maintaining the status quo.
Successful minimum wage ballot measures offer small signs of hope.
Mass deportations could separate millions of undocumented immigrants and their US citizen children.
Betting on voter gratitude is a common mistake.
Voters this week approved a first-of-its-kind measure to pay property owners if cities don’t address camps.
Investors in private prisons think they’ve hit the jackpot with a second Trump presidency.
What Trump’s return means for America’s poor people.
Turns out all of those indictments were pointless.
The backlash to criminal justice reform continues.
Ten states had referendums on reproductive freedom.
It will be easier to restrict reproductive rights in the president-elect’s second term.
Trump’s second term poses an existential threat to the republic. But there’s still good reason for hope.
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Here’s what our writers are watching.
A mysterious Supreme Court case could change everything about criminal punishment.
Pricey, legal weed is great news — for the black market.
Land of the free, home of the blazed.
Why a second Trump term is a mortal threat to democracy — though perhaps not in the way you think.
One of the worst ideas in US constitutional law will remain dead.
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