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How to mourn in our polarized age

Charlie Kirk, 31, observed the Jewish Sabbath. It was a little detail buried near the bottom of one of the many profiles published since news broke...

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Rachel Cohen

Why 15 million vacant homes won’t solve the housing crisis

The United States is wrestling with a massive housing shortage — with more than 4 million housing units needed to meet demand. The lack of...

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Rachel Cohen

The evolving fight over giving people cash, explained

Over the past 15 years, the idea of giving everyone a “basic income” has been heralded as a promising solution for economic justice and even...

27.08.2025 2

Rachel Cohen

Child care activists have a “mission accomplished” problem

Over the last half-decade, New Mexico has built a reputation as a state that actually supports families with young kids. Lawmakers in Santa Fe...

25.08.2025 10

Rachel Cohen

A solution to the child care shortage is hiding in plain sight

Josh Brooks hadn’t planned for a career taking care of young children, but in tenth grade he started spending time with his friend’s younger...

11.08.2025 30

Rachel Cohen

Republicans want to give Uber workers benefits. There’s a catch.

Should independent contractors get employment benefits? The question has fueled decades of legal and political battles — and it might finally be...

04.08.2025 7

Rachel Cohen

Cutting five words from this law could make houses cheaper

There exists an almost absurdly simple fix that could help ease the housing crisis. It would cost the government nothing, require deleting just five...

21.07.2025 20

Rachel Cohen

Which matters more for the economy — babies or robots?

Two sweeping visions of the future have been unfolding, each producing grim — yet seemingly contradictory — predictions for the fate of...

18.07.2025 4

Rachel Cohen

How the GOP beat Democrats to a child care win

President Donald Trump’s recently passed Big Beautiful Bill features crippling cuts to health insurance, food stamps, and clean energy programs, yet...

08.07.2025 30

Rachel Cohen

Can abortion bans be made a little less bad?

By the time Republican Rep. Kat Cammack arrived at a Florida emergency room, she was facing an urgent medical crisis: Her pregnancy, then five weeks...

01.07.2025 40

Rachel Cohen

What today’s new college graduates are up against

A Vox reader asks: Maybe it’s because I am a new grad, graduating with my bachelor’s in May yippee! But it seems everyone is super pessimistic...

06.06.2025 30

Rachel Cohen

Our economy isn’t built for the biological clock

Everyone should have the right to decide if and when they have children. Yet over the past 50 years, the United States has built an economy that...

02.06.2025 3

Rachel Cohen

America might finally make childbirth free

As politicians grapple with declining birth rates, the financial burden of giving birth in America — where privately insured families face...

30.05.2025 6

Rachel Cohen

A critical fight over “quality” child care could shape millions of kids

America’s lack of affordable child care has brought a long-simmering question to a boil: What exactly makes child care “good”? Everyone wants...

19.05.2025 20

Rachel Cohen

The right’s new playbook to restrict access to abortion pills

The next salvo in the crusade to ban abortion is now clear. Anti-abortion activists have launched what they’re privately calling “Rolling...

09.05.2025 4

Rachel Cohen

A fight about stairs could reshape American cities

Michael Eliason was an undergraduate studying architecture at Virginia Tech University when he went to live for a year in Germany. While interning in...

08.05.2025 30

Rachel Cohen

Tiny homes and tough laws are changing homelessness in American cities

California is rapidly reshaping its approach to homeless tent encampments in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court ruling that allowed cities to...

02.05.2025 4

Rachel Cohen

Why Trump likes this idea to boost birth rates

The Trump administration has been soliciting ideas on ways to encourage Americans to get married and have more children, according to a new report in...

29.04.2025 10

Rachel Cohen

Inside the conservative movement to remake American day care

In March 2024, Kelli and Austin Emry welcomed their son Logan, a little brother for their toddler Mila and the final piece of the family they had...

17.04.2025 10

Rachel Cohen

The controversial anti-poverty solution coming to public schools

Public schools in America are becoming testing grounds for a tenuous theory: that poverty can be avoided by making three choices in the right...

15.04.2025 20

Rachel Cohen

Will cheap housing lead to more babies?

One of the buzziest books in America right now is Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s bestseller on why our failure to build enough homes has...

02.04.2025 10

Rachel Cohen

The invisible homeless crisis that official statistics miss

“The only thing worse than being homeless in America is not being considered homeless in America,” says Brian Goldstone, a journalist and...

25.03.2025 10

Rachel Cohen

Trump is on track to ditch a time-tested approach to combating homelessness

Since returning to office, the Trump administration has moved to upend America’s long-standing approach to tackling homelessness. The...

07.03.2025 4

Rachel Cohen

What if the people caring for American children get deported?

America’s fragile child care system relies heavily on immigrant workers. Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown could cripple it. Since 2011,...

04.03.2025 6

Rachel Cohen

Should employers step up on child care?

Every morning, when Trudi and Ben Shertzer head to their jobs at the Pittsburgh International Airport, they drop their son Hunter off at a brightly...

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