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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was one of the leading figures of the early women’s rights movement and is best known for her efforts in writing the Declaration of Sentiments for the Seneca Falls Convention and for organizing the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Throughout her life, Cady Stanton passionately sought to elevate the […]

Each year, 600,000 men and women nationwide return from prison to low-income, inner-city communities. Harlem, in particular, has a high number of individuals who have either experienced incarceration themselves or know someone who has, according to recent data. To consider the challenges these formerly incarcerated individuals face when they return home, the Charles Koch Foundation, […]

Stand Together Trust hosted an event on Trans-Atlantic Relations and the Future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in New York City last month. The event featured former ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder, now president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and Barry Posen, director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy. Rather than focus on nitty-gritty policy details, moderator William Ruger, vice president of research and policy at Stand Together Trust, encouraged the panelists to discuss “key ideas for the future.”

Asa Hutchinson, the current Republican governor of Arkansas, has viewed the criminal justice system from a variety of vantage points at both the state and federal levels. He was a U.S. attorney in the 1980s, during the implementation of some of the first mandatory minimum sentencing laws, and he saw the system in a different light through his work […]

Policy analysts and entrepreneurs discuss transportation innovation and the policies stifling progress in Austin. Stand Together Trust, along with the Lincoln Initiative, brought together policy analysts and Texas-based entrepreneurs on October 13 to discuss the current state of transportation policy, its impact in Austin, and the future of innovation. The night opened with a conversation […]

Writing for RealClearSports, Dana Wade, senior research fellow for Stand Together Trust, writes about how taxpayers oftentimes subsidize sports stadiums: “Roger Noll, an economist at Stanford who has analyzed the issue for decades, maintains that NFL stadiums don’t grow the local economy and don’t raise enough tax revenue to recoup the city’s investment. In fact, according […]

Writing for the American Thinker, Jordan Campbell, policy and research assistant at Stand Together Trust, discusses how USDA commodity buy-outs are the “tip of the iceberg” for tax-payer funded agricultural bailouts: “The majority of these payments are simply taxpayer-funded subsidies disguised as insurance programs – most of which will go to a concentrated few. The Environmental […]

Ludwig von Mises, author of Human Action, focused on how individuals’ choices are an important factor in the study of economics. September 29 marks the birthday of Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), an influential leader in the Austrian School of economic thought who challenged the ideas of socialism and government intervention that were increasingly popular in […]

As other states have reformed their criminal justice systems, Tennessee has not kept pace. Tennessee’s corrections expenditures account for 10 percent of the state’s budget, there are more than 20,000 inmates in Tennessee prisons, and 5,000 inmates transition back into society each year. Recently, criminal justice experts considered these facts and discussed how Tennessee could […]

Services like Flytenow and technology for supersonic flights could have vastly improved air travel in terms of cost, speed, and ease. Yet regulations have stalled these innovations. The history of human transportation is a story of innovation. From the wheel to the airplane, improvements in our ability to move goods and people are driven by […]