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Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. President-elect Joe Biden received his second dose COVID-19 vaccine shot in Newark, Delaware on January 11, 2021. Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images As COVID-19 cases decline and vaccinations soar, public health experts are keeping up negative messaging. Such negativity is undermining public health. If the message is that life won't change after being vaccinated, people will conclude getting jabbed i...

Getty The prison where I'm incarcerated shut down contact visits on March 9, 2020. There's been no transparency from officials on when we'll get to see our loved ones again. As bars and restaurants are filling up again, it's time to lift restrictions in prisons. Christopher Blackwell is a writer who is incarcerated at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Washington. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. Last night, before I fell asleep in my cell, I kissed a photo of my wife twice and said, "It's okay, my love, we'll ma...

Samuel Corum/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. 45 million Americans owe $1.7 trillion in student debt, and 93% of that debt is federally owned. Forgiving student debt would generate more than $1 trillion of economic activity and create millions of jobs. The Biden administration could forgive all federal student loan debt tomorrow without Congress. Carl Gibson is a freelance journalist and columnist from Kentucky. This is an opinion column. The thoug...

Government intervention may offend market purists, but simple, specific regulations are far less intrusive than inflexible one-size-fits-all mandates.

In that single sentence, Ramsey accomplished the impressive feat of both identifying the problem while also completely dismissing it. Yes, many people are screwed, financially speaking — and for them, that relatively modest amount of money would change their life by helping to address their immediate basic needs such as putting food on the table.  The backlash against those comments was strong and swift, as Ramsey mentioned on his radio show soon after, noting, "Apparently I have upset a lot of snowflakes."  The privileged conservative view on poverty Ramsey is a huge proponent of hardco...