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Imposing mandatory minimum punishments without defining for students what actions will subject them to punishment will stifle campus dialogue rather than enrich it.

William Ruger, Vice President of Research and Policy at STT, responds to the 18th anniversary of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan. Read his statement.

William Ruger, VP of Research and Policy at STT, responds to the pullback of U.S. troops from Syrian-Turkish border. Read his statement.

William Ruger, Vice President of Research and Policy at Stand Together Trust, on news that national security advisor John Bolton has left the White House.

William Ruger, Vice President of Research and Policy at Stand Together Trust, on reports of an agreement to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

William Ruger, Vice President of Research and Policy at Stand Together Trust, on reports that the U.S. has reached an initial peace deal with the Taliban that would include a drawdown of 6,000 troops.

As part of years of work requesting and organizing the findings of millions of public records requests, scholars at Syracuse’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse discovered immigrants now wait an average of 727 days for decisions on their cases.

Media and technology firms are grappling to discover and refine the rules, tools, and standards that address substantive concerns about extreme content while allowing free expression to thrive. Communities Overcoming Extremism: the After Charlottesville Project is bringing together private sector leaders to talk about the questions and discoveries arising in different online communities.

Higher education provides college students an opportunity to refine the skills necessary for tackling competing and challenging views as well as discovering how to collaborate with those they disagree with. In the wake of seven states enacting policy to clear the way for students and scholars fostering such an open, intellectual environment, Stand Together Trust Senior Fellow Casey Mattox issued the following statement.

Stand Together Trust announced today that Adam Millsap, assistant director of Florida State University’s L. Charles Hilton Jr. Center, is now a visiting fellow and will join the organization full time in June.