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Stand Together Trust, along with the Lincoln Network and Medium, brought together designers and legal experts to discover the ways in which interface and UX design merge to influence the types of interactions users have on online platforms.

Academics and venture capitalists recently came together in New York City to discuss how automation will affect employment. Earlier this month, Stand Together Trust, along with the Adam Smith Society and the Lincoln Network, brought together professors and venture capitalists for a discussion on the evolving nature of work and the challenges and opportunities created […]

Earlier this year, Virginians sent a clear message about their desire to address flaws in the current criminal justice system, with a majority supporting reducing prison costs and the right for restored citizens to get work certification licenses after being released from prison. This month, Stand Together Trust, along with the National Association of Criminal […]

In an op-ed for The Hill, Alison Acosta Winters, managing director of research and policy at Stand Together Trust, discusses how removing agricultural subsidies should be a priority for Congress: “If America is really serious about “draining the swamp” in Washington, then removing harmful policies and rent-seeking behaviors upon which corporate welfare and cronyism are built […]

In an op-ed for the Tampa Bay Times, Dana Wade, senior research fellow at Stand Together Trust, discusses the complicated United States’ tax code: A tax code that long can’t truly be understood by any one person. To give you a sense of how complicated the tax code is, think about it this way: Americans will […]

At the end of 2016, Dana Wade writes, some loopholes in the tax code will expire, along with the unfair benefits that flow towards special interests. In her op-ed for The Dallas Morning News, Wade explains why Congress should allow these loopholes, called “tax extenders,” to expire: Many tax extenders, so named because they represent […]

Sir Winston Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman, historian, and journalist, but he was also an ardent advocate for criminal justice reform. His efforts in the area reflect concerns that are familiar to us today. As he explained to Parliament, “The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and […]

Journalist Henry Hazlitt popularized the ideas of Austrian economics and was a co-founder of the Foundation for Economic Education. Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) was a well-known journalist and economics writer for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and The New York Times. He popularized the ideas of Austrian economics and was a co-founder […]

Technological advancements and cultural diffusion through cuisine have made it easier for more people to celebrate Thanksgiving in their own style. Thanksgiving may not have the carols and gifts of Christmas, but what it lacks in festivities it makes up for with food. And though today’s Thanksgiving bears little resemblance to the first harvest celebration […]

On November 15, Stand Together Trust held an event on Capitol Hill entitled “Taxing Times: Ending Cronyism in the Code” to explore how our complicated tax code benefits politicians, lobbyists, and special interests. Like any other form of corporate welfare, the government’s use of the tax code to play favorites creates a two-tiered society that […]