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On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered one last time in the Assembly Room of what is now Independence Hall to sign the charter that they had spent the past four months crafting. As the last of the thirty-eight signers affixed their names to the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin called attention to […]

In a follow-up to his previous conversation with Newsy Channel Manager Cliff Judy on how retirements and seeking higher office could impact 2020 elections, Professor of Political Science and Kinder Institute Affiliate Faculty Member Marvin Overby focused specifically in this second interview on the long-term and short-term factors that explain why, for decades, House Republicans […]

As part of the Kinder Institute’s ongoing participation in Newsy’s “Ask the Experts” video series, MU Professor of Political Science and KICD Affiliate Faculty Member Marvin Overby sat down with Newsy Channel Manager Cliff Judy to chat about the effect of congressional retirements and decisions to run for higher office in an age of “super […]

The first installment of a two-part conversation, Kinder Institute Director Justin Dyer sat down with Newsy Station Manager Cliff Judy to discuss how the American founders believed that civic education should be at the heart of the missions of the United States’ first public universities.

As part of the ongoing “Ask the Experts” collaboration, Kinder Institute Director and Professor of Political Science Justin Dyer sat down with Newsy Channel Manager Cliff Judy to discuss how secondary and higher education institutions might benefit from reimagining the role of civic education.

As part of the ongoing “Ask the Experts” collaboration, Kinder Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Luke Perez sat down with Newsy Channel Manager Cliff Judy for a two-part discussion of the United States’ diplomatic strategy of promoting religious liberty abroad and the “hugely important moments in humanitarian history” that have come from it.