Policy
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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A major study backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman shows unconditional cash has benefits that have nothing to do with AI.
![Artificial intelligence isn’t a good argument for basic income](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-640351099.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.8601292284303%2C100%2C94.279741543139&w=2400)
A major study backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman shows unconditional cash has benefits that have nothing to do with AI.
![How should we sell psychedelics?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1602502268.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![How should we sell psychedelics?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-1602502268.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
A new report outlines policy options for who gets to sell psychedelics, and who gets to buy them.
![MDMA’s federal approval drama, briefly explained](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1220396031.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![MDMA’s federal approval drama, briefly explained](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1220396031.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
MDMA looked like it was on a fast track for PTSD treatment. Now, an FDA committee is advising otherwise.
![Is the United States in self-destruct mode?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1543081864.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Is the United States in self-destruct mode?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/GettyImages-1543081864.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The crisis is in the Constitution.
The latest in Policy
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![Israel’s January 6 moment](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/gettyimages-2163744727.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0070086907765656%2C100%2C99.985982618447&w=2400)
A far-right riot at a military base exposed the contradiction tearing Israel apart.
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Schumer wants to engage in jurisdiction stripping, a rarely used tactic that can shrink the Supreme Court’s authority.
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It’s the end of a drawn-out legal process, haunted by the failure of the war on terror.
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![Africa is beating HIV. But the rest of the world is falling behind.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-138000156.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.088261253309796%2C0%2C99.82347749338%2C100&w=2400)
Now isn’t the time to stop funding key public health programs.
![Ruthless “cop” or “soft on crime”? Kamala Harris’s record as prosecutor, explained.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1083155548.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Ruthless “cop” or “soft on crime”? Kamala Harris’s record as prosecutor, explained.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1083155548.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The vice president’s days as a California prosecutor are difficult to define in clear ideological terms.
![The movement desperately trying to get people to have more babies](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2163513739.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.218181818182%2C0%2C65.563636363636%2C100&w=2400)
![The movement desperately trying to get people to have more babies](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2163513739.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.82727272727273%2C0%2C98.345454545455%2C100&w=2400)
It’s not only J.D. Vance fixating on childlessness: The pronatalists, explained.
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![Venezuela’s Maduro just tightened his grip on power. What comes next?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2164043790.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Nicolás Maduro has presided over Venezuela’s economic decline — while increasing his authoritarian tendencies.
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![Do bigger highways actually help reduce traffic?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-960093634.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.054288816503799%2C100%2C99.891422366992&w=2400)
How America’s ever-widening highways are built on a lie.
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![Trump proposed bombing Mexico and it somehow wasn’t a big story](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162834073.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0045724737082793%2C100%2C99.990855052583&w=2400)
Trump’s extremist policy agenda is flying under the radar — and that’s a problem.
![What we know about the police killing of Sonya Massey](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/AP24205662506993.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.361533779671%2C0%2C65.276932440657%2C100&w=2400)
![What we know about the police killing of Sonya Massey](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/AP24205662506993.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=1.042300669507%2C0%2C97.915398660986%2C100&w=2400)
It adds to a long and disturbing pattern of police violence toward Black Americans.
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![So what does Joe Biden do now?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162012636.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C3.4233814625058%2C100%2C93.153237074988&w=2400)
In an Oval Office speech, Biden said his farewells. But his job isn’t done yet.
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![Could a short campaign be exactly what Kamala Harris needs?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162426041.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
Dozens of other democracies have short election cycles. Can the Democrats learn something from them?
![The billionaire tax proposal that’s driving Silicon Valley to support Trump](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-495485990.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.983333333333%2C0%2C70.033333333333%2C100&w=2400)
![The billionaire tax proposal that’s driving Silicon Valley to support Trump](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-495485990.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C2.4036173250833%2C100%2C95.192765349833&w=2400)
No, it isn’t a devious Democratic plan to destroy startups.
![Why does Kamala Harris want to be president?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162572505.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Why does Kamala Harris want to be president?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162572505.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
It’s difficult to predict what a Harris presidency would look like. But there are some clues.
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Here’s how to get to where you want to go, and make sure your luggage makes it too.
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![Inside the fight over California’s new AI bill](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1322391289.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
California legislator Scott Wiener on why the home of the AI industry is the right place to regulate it.
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Too many Americans can’t find a doctor. Michael Bloomberg is donating $1 billion to Johns Hopkins to try to change that.
![Kamala Harris and the border: The myth and the facts](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1233324068.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![Kamala Harris and the border: The myth and the facts](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-1233324068.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
No, Kamala Harris is not a “border czar.” But that doesn’t matter to Republicans.
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If events like the assassination attempt of Donald Trump are to be avoided in the future, the agency needs to change.
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The world population could peak in your lifetime.
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Biden is trying to reinvigorate his candidacy by pushing progressive priorities.
![What so many high-profile shootings have in common](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161607020.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
![What so many high-profile shootings have in common](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161607020.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&w=2400)
The Trump assassination attempt and many other public crimes in America are committed by isolated young men.
![The crime wave is over but Republicans can’t let go](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162320348.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.672886732599%2C0%2C66.654226534801%2C100&w=2400)
![The crime wave is over but Republicans can’t let go](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162320348.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.0093300988990492%2C0%2C99.981339802202%2C100&w=2400)
The GOP is still pretending that crime is spiraling out of control.
![The clever politics of Republicans’ anti-immigrant pitch](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2162340762.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.666666666667%2C0%2C66.666666666667%2C100&w=2400)
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The Republican National Convention featured plenty of angry rhetoric about immigration. It might find a receptive audience.
![5 causes — and accelerants — of political violence](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2161922590.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.660253943825%2C0%2C66.679492112351%2C100&w=2400)
![5 causes — and accelerants — of political violence](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-2161922590.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.0096172340834784%2C100%2C99.980765531833&w=2400)
While we can’t always predict public political violence, Vox spoke to four experts who can help us understand it.
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Republicans have been essential to gun safety legislation before. They could do it again.
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The classified documents case against Trump hits another major setback before the 2024 election.
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The attempt on Donald Trump is the latest in a wave of political violence.
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Giving people cash makes them less poor. It doesn’t fix everything.
![What the assassination attempt on President Reagan reveals about the Trump shooting](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-615297464.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=16.736842105263%2C0%2C66.526315789474%2C100&w=2400)
![What the assassination attempt on President Reagan reveals about the Trump shooting](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/gettyimages-615297464.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.10526315789473%2C0%2C99.789473684211%2C100&w=2400)
In 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. and, like Trump, survived.
![America is not ready for what comes next](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161339276.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=17.185385656292%2C0%2C65.629228687415%2C100&w=2400)
![America is not ready for what comes next](https://cdn.statically.io/img/platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/GettyImages-2161339276.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0.77807848443842%2C0%2C98.443843031123%2C100&w=2400)
The attempt on Donald Trump’s life has put the republic in peril.
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Charges of involuntary manslaughter against the actor have been dismissed, and cannot be refiled. Here’s what happened.
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