Vox » Politics & Policy
5,878 FOLLOWERS
Vox's policy and politics team explains everything you need to know about what's going on in Washington and what it means for your life. Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Vox's journalists candidly shepherd audiences through politics and policy, business and pop culture, food, science, and everything else that matters.
Vox » Politics & Policy
14h ago
Venezuelan migrants, Lenin Diaz, 11, left, Maria Inojosa, 43, and Diaz’s mother Euglimar Ramos, 30, walk outside a shelter on December 19, 2023, in Chicago. | Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images
They point to much deeper holes in US immigration policy.
Chicago’s decision to move forward with a controversial migrant eviction proposal is underscoring ongoing gaps in immigration policy that continue to exist across the country — and the inhumane quick fixes that are being used in the meantime.
Earlier this month, Chicago began evicting migrants from homeless shelt ..read more
Vox » Politics & Policy
21h ago
The cargo ship Dali sits in the water after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
From drought in the Panama Canal to the Houthis in the Suez to pirates off Somalia, we’re all paying the price.
Baltimore woke up yesterday to horrific images of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing into the harbor after the cargo ship Dali lost power and collided with a support column.
It’s a horrible tragedy — six construction workers who were on the bridge at the time are missing and presumed dead — and one that will likely take at least several billion dol ..read more
Vox » Politics & Policy
1d ago
Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
From search efforts to how a ship can knock down a bridge, here’s what you need to know.
The shocking collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was hit by a cargo ship early Tuesday morning has the region reeling as authorities continue to search for survivors who may have fallen into the Patapsco River.
Thus far, two people who were working on the bridge have been rescued and six are presumed dead by their employer, Brawner Builders, given the temperature of the water and the time that has passed since the accident, the Associated Press re ..read more
Vox » Politics & Policy
2d ago
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hosts a fireside chat with rapper and producer Eric B. at The Gentleman’s Factory on February 18, 2024, in New York City. | John Nacion/Getty Images
The Kennedy conspiracy theorist and his potential to upend the 2024 presidential election, explained.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to name Nicole Shanahan, a Silicon Valley lawyer and ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his running mate in his 2024 independent presidential bid.
Shanahan does not have political experience, but she has previously donated to Democrats, including President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign ..read more
Vox » Politics & Policy
3d ago
Displaced Palestinians collect food donated by a charity before an iftar meal, the breaking of the fast during Ramadan, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on March 22, 2024. | Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Everyone in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger. It’s entirely preventable.
Every resident of Gaza is at risk of crisis levels of food insecurity — and half are at risk of famine.
Yes, you read that right: Nearly six months into the Israeli invasion after the October 7 attacks, every single Gaza resident is at risk of at least crisis-level food insecurity — defined as hou ..read more
Vox » Politics & Policy
3d ago
Trump supporters attack the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, insurrection. | Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images
The Court’s decision could potentially undermine over 300 January 6 prosecutions, including Trump’s.
According to the Justice Department, Joseph Fischer texted his boss before the January 6 insurrection to tell him that he might need to post bail. The accused insurrectionist also allegedly warned that the protest at the US Capitol “might get violent,” and he allegedly wrote that “they should storm the capital and drag all the democrates [sic] into the street and have a mob tr ..read more
Vox » Politics & Policy
4d ago
Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA), center, is sponsoring the Locally-Led Development and Humanitarian Response Act, which passed the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 20. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
Major reform on how the US gives money to other countries is breezing through the House with bipartisan support.
Today’s Congress is not exactly a well-oiled machine. Even picking a speaker has proven to be incredibly difficult for the House, which took as many floor votes on the matter in 2023 alone as in the previous 36 years combined.
But there’s one issue in which Congress has shown a surpr ..read more
Vox » Politics & Policy
4d ago
People light candles in honor to the victims of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack near the Crocus City Expo Complex on March 23, 2024 in Krasnororsk, Russia. | Getty Images
All signs point to ISIS in a terrorist attack that killed over 130 people near Moscow, but Vladimir Putin is connecting it to the war in Ukraine
Russia’s deadliest terrorist attack in decades may not be directly related to the ongoing war in Ukraine, but that doesn’t mean it won’t have implications for the future of that conflict. In fact, the horrific attack has already become one more battle in the ongoing information ..read more
Vox » Politics & Policy
6d ago
Jared Bartman for Vox
Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China.
It’s hard to overstate the level of hype currently surrounding military drones. Just in the past week, former senior US military commanders have penned commentaries comparing drones, in terms of their revolutionary potential, to the development of the phalanx formation that helped make Alexander the Great’s conquest possible, and suggesting they may make the US Air Force obsolete.
It’s not hard to understand why. The ongoing war in Ukraine has seen drones transform from a bespoke counter ..read more
Vox » Politics & Policy
6d ago
Apple CEO Tim Cook takes a selfie with an attendee during an event on September 10, 2019, on Apple’s Cupertino, California campus. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Does Apple have a monopoly on smartphones? The Justice Department thinks so.
The Biden administration filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple Thursday that targets a product that has long been the major revenue driver for the company’s $2.76 trillion business: the iPhone.
The Department of Justice, joined by 16 state attorneys general, accused Apple in a New Jersey federal court of maintaining a monopoly on the US market for ..read more