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In Washington, the story often ends when Congress passes a law. For The Impact, that’s where our story begins. We focus on the human consequences of policy-making, what happens in the real w...
What good are piecemeal reparations? From Georgetown University, where school leadership once sold enslaved people, to Evanston, Illinois, w...
Why slavery? Marxist scholar Adolph Reed argues that Jim Crow — not enslavement — is the defining experience for Black Americans today. Reed...
Paying the price. One of the typical questions asked during conversations about reparations is how to pay for them. Fabiola talks with econo...
Fabiola Cineas talks with Nkechi Taifa, the founder and director of the Reparation Education Project, about the history of the fight for rep...
In this bonus, chat episode of The Impact, Jillian is joined by Vox's Matt Yglesias and Course Correction's Nelufar Hedayat to talk about ho...
Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are known as “Ambos Nogales” — “both Nogaleses.” The city straddles the border of Arizona and Sonora,...
Free college tuition seems like a solution to so many problems. After all, the price of tuition is the No. 1 reason students give for leavin...
Natasha Razouk wants to give her 7-year-old the best possible life. She buys big boxes of fresh tomatoes at Costco, and she gets her daughte...
Janet Feldman has been paying for private insurance for years. She does so even though Australia has a robust public insurance option. But w...
In the early 1990s, the government of Taiwan decided to try an experiment. In just nine months, they completely revolutionized their health...
Two decades ago, Hans-Josef Fell quietly started a revolution in his home country, with a law that looks a lot like part of the Green New De...
President Gerald Ford took office during one of the most difficult times in the country’s history. In August 1974, the US had just lived thr...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is running for president with a plan to fight the opioid epidemic. Her legislation would dramatically expand access to...
In this season preview, Vox’s Jillian Weinberger calls a fellow native Ohioan to discuss the perils of Swing State pride during presidential...
Sarah Kliff returns for a farewell and a handoff to The Impact's new host, Jillian Weinberger, who has a preview of what's to come in our ne...
Denmark gives new parents nearly a year off work after they have a baby. Most of that time can be taken by either parent — but dads take bar...
For decades, Memphis grew by bringing its suburbs into the city limits. City officials thought this suburb-gobbling policy would be an econo...
Baltimore is running a unique housing experiment that gives longtime residents vouchers to leave the city’s poorest, most violent neighborho...
All across the country, it seems like a given: places with more expensive houses have nicer schools because they can pay higher taxes. That’...
22% of New Yorkers are obese. In Chicago it is more than a quarter of the city. Obesity puts people at risk of diabetes, heart disease, even...
While the federal government is trying to deport as many immigrants as possible, Oakland, California, is running a policy experiment to help...
A decade ago, South Carolina was one of the most dangerous places in America for a baby to be born. But now, it’s taking an unconventional a...
Seattle is running the country’s most radical experiment to fix campaign finance. Last year, the city sent every resident $100 that they cou...
The Impact’s second season focuses on states and cities as laboratories of democracy. Unlike our gridlocked Congress, local governments are...
We're making season 2, and we need your help! We want to know about local policy experiments from around the country. These can be at the st...
The United States has an astoundingly high maternal death rate. It is three times higher than the UK, eight times higher than Norway, and st...
What is the best way to care for patients with severe mental illness? The United States has struggled with this question for decades. In 196...
American women are changing up their birth control. The use of IUDs and implants has increased 6000% in the United States since 2002. That's...
On this episode of The Impact, we’re looking at a possible future for pain treatment. It’s an idea known as “pain acceptance,” and in the wa...
There's a well-known narrative about the opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical companies and dirty doctors pushed misinformation and addictive dru...
Why are fax machines still such a staple of American health care? We talk to a pair of policy makers who hatched a plan to replace paper fil...
Central line infections can be deadly. And they used to be extremely common: just a decade ago, hundreds of thousands of patients got them e...
How does a Band-Aid wind up costing so much money? Why are American health care prices so incredibly high? Vox’s new podcast, the Impact, ex...
The Impact is a show about how policy affects people. In Washington, the story often ends when Congress passes a law. For us, that’s where t...