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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.

The massive Los Angeles public school worker strike, explained

Unions are protesting low wages and “unfair” working conditions during the three-day strike.

By Nicole Narea

The fight against factory farming is winning criminal trials

Two activists were just acquitted for taking factory-farmed chickens worth $16.

By Marina Bolotnikova

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

9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered

By Sara Morrison, Christian Paz, and 1 more March 16

Ron DeSantis is using Ukraine aid to win over the GOP base

By Li Zhou March 15

Why the Silicon Valley Bank collapse couldn’t have happened in this one state

By Dylan Matthews March 15

Did the Fed break Silicon Valley Bank?

By Emily Stewart March 14

Why bailouts keep happening even though everyone hates them

By Andrew Prokop March 14

Biden just broke a big climate promise

By Rebecca Leber March 14

A new Supreme Court case could be the most important transgender rights decision ever

By Ian Millhiser March 14

The knowns — and known unknowns — of long Covid, explained

By Dylan Scott March 13

Child labor protections are the latest Republican target

By Ellen Ioanes March 12

No one knows when it is legal to perform medically necessary abortions in Texas

By Ian Millhiser March 12

The UK’s extreme new immigration plans, explained

By Ellen Ioanes March 11

Why DC is stuck as America’s continental colony

By Miles Bryan March 11

Why even brilliant scholars misunderstand poverty in America

By Dylan Matthews March 10

The GOP’s coordinated national campaign against trans rights, explained

By Nicole Narea and Fabiola Cineas March 10

There’s something different about the new gas stove influencer

By Rebecca Leber March 10

The real message of Biden’s budget

By Rachel M. Cohen March 9

You might not know if your blender will kill you

By Emily Stewart March 9

Biden’s budget goes all in on protecting Medicare. Just how much danger is it in?

By Dylan Scott March 9

Tucker Carlson’s January 6 lies throw Republicans into disarray

By Li Zhou March 8

Homeless encampments — and the debate over what to do about them — explained

By Rachel M. Cohen March 8

Congress’s attempt to overturn a crime law makes the case for DC statehood

By Li Zhou March 7

Donald Trump is now fully at war with the Republican Party’s past

By Ben Jacobs March 4

SNAP boosts kept millions out of poverty during Covid. Now they’re gone.

By Ellen Ioanes March 4

America’s school lunch crisis

By Anna North March 2

The Chicago mayor’s race shows Democrats still have a crime problem

By Christian Paz March 1

The campaign to make insulin less expensive just scored a major victory

By Dylan Scott March 1

The big, neglected problem that should be Biden’s top priority

By Rachel M. Cohen March 1