It sometimes seems like the basic income wars will never go away. My first Vox piece on the idea of a government-provided guaranteed income came in the summer of 2014 — a simpler time, the Obama years. I wrote a big feature about it in 2017. Since then, we’ve had Andrew Yang’s presidential run, Covid-era stimulus […]

For decades, a core part of the Republican Party’s identity was the whole-hearted embrace of free-market capitalism. Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” of the market was understood to be infinitely preferable to government meddling. Lately, though, President Donald Trump has been having second thoughts. Forget the invisible hand — what about, uh, Trump’s hand? The second […]

Late Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down an incomprehensible order concerning the Trump administration’s decision to cancel numerous public health grants. The array of six opinions in National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Association is so labyrinthine that any judge who attempts to parse it risks being devoured by a minotaur. As […]

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Texas is forging ahead with its plan to add five Republican seats to its congressional map at the behest of President Donald Trump, in preparation for […]

In the public imagination, Stephen Miller is the dark heart of the Trump administration — a pulsing mass of anti-immigrant hatred behind its most aggressively authoritarian moves. But what if there’s a different story to be told — that Stephen Miller’s obsession with deportations isn’t helping President Donald Trump secure control over the country, but […]