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AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File Only 9% of the federal prison population is held in private prisons.  Ending private prisons is good, but much more money is made from businesses that profit off public prisons.  Biden should halt private corporations from securing new contracts with federal prisons.  Ashish Prashar is the Global Chief Marketing Officer at R/GA and a justice reform activist. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.  President Joe Biden, by executive order, directed the Department of Justice to end its private priso...

Every vaccination helps the public at large, but we live in a world where getting the COVID-19 vaccine is both encouraged and hotly debated.

Critics say that raising the minimum wage would hurt business. I froze my executives' salaries to pay our employees $15 an hour and we're just fine.

Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images Lawmakers now join ranks with over 240,000 children who have experienced the trauma of gun violence and fear for their lives at school since 1999. It's been 27 years since any legislation to protect citizens from gun violence has passed — a law which lapsed just 10 years later. It's time for lawmakers to take the lives of our school children as seriously as they address their own personal safety. Meg Poulin is a freelance writer focusing on women's rights and parenting while raising her three young girls in Conn...

Mark Wilson/Getty Images The US global image has been deeply damaged by Trump and decades of skimping on diplomacy. In order to rebuild America's image, the government needs to be willing to spend tens of billions of dollars.  Brett Bruen was the director of global engagement in the Obama White House and a career American diplomat. He runs the crisis-communications agency Global Situation Room. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. International influence isn't something that comes cheap — even when you're a super power.  ...