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How the overturn of Roe v. Wade sparked a new campaign for abortion rights across Europe

An unprecedented effort to expand abortion rights throughout Europe launches today, led by groups that were already fighting for reproductive freedom...

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What the Supreme Court case on tent encampments could mean for homeless people

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for the most consequential case in decades concerning the rights of people experiencing...

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Florida and Arizona show why abortion attacks are not slowing down

The attacks on legal abortion in the last two weeks alone have been staggering. Since the beginning of April, state Supreme Courts in Florida and...

11.04.2024 10

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Home sweet strip mall

10.04.2024 6

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The astonishing radicalism of Florida’s new ban on abortion

In spring 2022, just months before the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade , Republicans in Florida passed a law banning abortion after 15 weeks...

02.04.2024 1

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Biden wants to campaign on housing. He also sort of has to.

Biden is in campaign mode, and the president wants voters to know he understands housing is out of control. Over the last month, Biden has ramped up...

01.04.2024 10

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How the anti-abortion movement shaped the US fertility industry

Earlier this month the Atlantic ran an opinion piece describing the American fertility industry as “strangely undeveloped” from a regulatory...

26.03.2024 30

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The post-Roe abortion paradox

To understand the evolving landscape for abortion in the United States, you have to consider two seemingly contradictory things. The first: The...

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Why abortion politics might not carry Democrats again in 2024

It’s no secret that Democrats are leaning hard into running on abortion rights for the 2024 cycle. Joe Biden has promised to bring back “the...

15.03.2024 3

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The anti-abortion playbook for restricting birth control

The national debate over IVF, unfolding after an Alabama court decision prompted multiple clinics in the state to halt operations, prompts a question:...

03.03.2024 30

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This ballot measure would restore Roe. Abortion rights groups are attacking it.

On the same day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a law banning nearly all abortions in South Dakota took effect. This so-called...

26.02.2024 7

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Alabama’s IVF warning to the country

One week ago, Alabama’s Supreme Court issued a now (in)famous 131-page decision that invoked God to claim that frozen embryos count as...

23.02.2024 30

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A prescription for housing?

For more than a decade, researchers and advocates have argued that housing is a fundamental part of health care. Beginning this fall, for the first...

13.02.2024 10

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What if public housing were for everyone?

Quietly and with little fanfare, the idea of building new publicly owned housing for people across the income spectrum has advanced in the United...

10.02.2024 5

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Abortion rights groups don’t want to “restore Roe” — but they won’t fight Biden on it

When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris held their first joint campaign event of 2024 last month in northern Virginia, they left no doubt that codifying...

05.02.2024 9

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The Supreme Court will decide what cities can do about tent encampments

The Supreme Court announced on Friday it would hear a pivotal case that could transform homelessness policy in the United States. The case is the most...

13.01.2024 20

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Could this obscure tax idea reshape American housing?

Over the last six months, an obscure housing policy idea has emerged as one of the most talked about proposals to revive Detroit, Michigan — an idea...

05.01.2024 10

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Why treatment for severe mental illness looks radically different for rich and poor people

Earlier this month, the federal government released new data estimating that more than 650,000 people experienced homelessness in America on a single...

29.12.2023 10

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Access to abortion pills has grown since Dobbs

Eighteen months after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned the constitutional right to abortion, and with a new Supreme Court challenge...

27.12.2023 6

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The best ways to help homeless people

I’ve been covering America’s homeless crisis at Vox all year. Last month, a reader reached out to ask what practical step they could take to help...

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Canada is promoting child care for $10 a day.

A massive social policy experiment is unfolding in Canada to provide families throughout the country with child care for an average of $10 a day. The...

18.12.2023 2

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A historian’s advice to the Democrats trying to build stuff

These days, political leaders and commentators talk often about “industrial policy” and stimulating supply in the economy, rather than just...

17.12.2023 10

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How millennials learned to dread motherhood

04.12.2023 30

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The big bet on “tiny homes” to fix homelessness

29.11.2023 10

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Republicans can’t sugarcoat their losses on abortion rights anymore

Even before Tuesday’s elections, many progressives insisted the question of whether protecting abortion rights wins elections was already asked and...

08.11.2023 3

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Abortion is on the ballot in November. The outcome will shape 2024.

Few states have major elections coming up in November. But in those that do, abortion rights are playing a pivotal role. The outcome of those...

22.10.2023 5

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Cities are asking the Supreme Court for more power to clear homeless encampments

In 2018, a federal court issued a consequential decision about homelessness in America: People without housing can’t be punished for sleeping or...

10.10.2023 30

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A program that saved child care for millions is expiring. What now?

This weekend, parents and child care providers across the nation are bracing for the end of an instrumental federal program that has stabilized child...

29.09.2023 7

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Some homeless people won’t go to shelters. Should they be left outside?

PORTLAND, Maine — All summer, the tent city grew. Along a popular walking path, the Fore River Parkway Trail, more than 60 houseless people had...

14.09.2023 3

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A bold new federal experiment in giving renters cash

A group of researchers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have been quietly developing an idea that could fundamentally upend the...

12.09.2023 70

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