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Just how effective are police body cameras, and what guidelines should be in place for their use? In May 2017, Stand Together Trust met with The Constitution Project and Upturn to discuss.

Combating recidivism is a difficult task, but it begins with truly affording those re-entering society a second chance. Organizations like Prison Fellowship are helping change the way we think about former offenders through initiatives like Second Chance Month.

“U.S. Alliances in the Middle East: Security Enhancing or Entangling?” was the latest in a series of discussions designed to spark a national conversation about our foreign policy status quo and its effectiveness at keeping us safe.

On March 21, 2017, Stand Together Trust gathered a panel of experts in Manchester, New Hampshire, for a conversation on occupational licensing in New Hampshire and across the country.

In an op-ed for RealClearMarkets, Alison Acosta Winters, managing director of research and policy at Stand Together Trust, writes about the good and the bad of President Trump’s proposed budget: President Trump’s “skinny” budget was released last week and you’d think the world has already ended because it includes cuts to a number of agencies. […]

Dana Wade, senior research fellow at Stand Together Trust, writes in the Sun Sentinel about how taxpayer-funded business incentives rarely create the economic growth they promise: State programs that provide taxpayer-funded incentives to businesses consistently underperform. Despite this, the state of Florida continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these sorts of handouts […]

Stand Together Trust hosted a CPAC panel with bestselling author and historian Amity Shlaes for a discussion about the rise of cronyism in America.

A series of polls conducted by Stand Together Trust and Center for the National Interest consistently found that Americans didn't favor current U.S. foreign policy.

In an op-ed for Investor’s Business Daily, Dana Wade, senior research fellow at Stand Together Trust, discusses President Trump’s executive order to review the Dodd-Frank Act and what more should be done to further financial reform: President Trump recently issued an executive order to review Dodd-Frank, as well as financial regulations and other measures. This […]

Stand Together Trust hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walter McDougall for a discussion of his latest book, "The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest."