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Emma Ashford, research fellow in defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, covered Stand Together Trust’s foreign policy conference “Advancing American Security” for War on the Rocks. Ashford noted that the event provided a more thoughtful survey of American foreign policy over the past two and a half decades and, while panelists held […]

Caroline Dorminey, writing for The American Conservative, covered Stand Together Trust’s foreign policy conference “Advancing American Security.” In particular, Dorminey notes how panelists tended to strongly focus on U.S.-Russia relations. As she writes: “It’s possible that the panelists are stuck in a Cold War mentality, though that’s unlikely. More probable is that the preoccupation with the […]

In a new op-ed for National Review Vikrant P. Reddy, senior research fellow at Stand Together Trust, discusses how policy considerations can often be derailed by exaggerations and misconstrued arguments. However, as Reddy continues, advocates for criminal justice reform do not need to exaggerate because the case for improving public safety, increasing human dignity, and restoring victims is […]

Christopher Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, covered Stand Together Trust’s conference “Advancing American Security” for The National Interest.  Preble, a speaker himself at “Advancing American Security,” discusses how the conference provided a forum for a range of viewpoints regarding the appropriate use of military power. As Preble writes: […]

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2016 — Today, Stand Together Trust is hosting Advancing American Security: The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy, a day-long conference with the goal of bridging the gap between ideas and policy. Top scholars in the field will evaluate the U.S. approach to foreign policy since the end of the Cold War and discuss how […]

In an op-ed for the Washington Examiner, Alison Acosta Fraser, managing director of research and policy at Stand Together Trust, uses Florida’s recent win against cronyism, the denial of $250 million in funding for a state enterprise fund, to illustrate how cronyism goes beyond “enterprise funds” to affect consumers and entrepreneurs through subsidies and regulations. As she […]

This week, Michael Bloomberg and Charles Koch co-authored an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal to highlight how free speech has eroded on college campuses, the very place where open inquiry has historically been celebrated, protected, and enshrined as necessary to students’ intellectual growth. This deterioration is troubling, because free expression is essential to all […]

In a new op-ed for The Daily Caller, Alison Acosta Fraser, managing director of research and policy at Stand Together Trust, chronicles some of the more high-profile examples of cronyism. However, as Fraser continues, cronyism is pervasive at all levels of government. As she writes: “It’s too early to know if politicians will turn over a […]

This week the Richmond Times-Dispatch published an op-ed co-authored by Ken Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general, Pat Nolan, director of the American Conservative Union Foundation’s Center for Criminal Justice Reform, Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and Vikrant Reddy, senior policy fellow at Stand Together Trust. In the op-ed, the authors discuss […]

This week former senator Tom Coburn and William Ruger, vice president of research and policy at Stand Together Trust discussed how the Department of Defense can responsibly curb spending without jeopardizing national security in an op-ed for USA Today. As they write: “Yet as long as we keep talking about adding to the budget without first asking […]