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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.

In a real-time update of last week’s interview on gerrymandering, MU Political Science Professor and Kinder Institute faculty member Jay Dow sat down with Newsy’s Cliff Judy to weigh in on the Supreme Court’s June 18 decision against intervening in two high-profile partisan gerrymanders—a Democratic gerrymander in Maryland and a Republican gerrymander in Wisconsin.

It’s the practice of drawing voting districts that gives one person’s vote more weight than another’s. And while that sounds blatantly unfair, gerrymandering is as old as the republic itself—it was used in the very first congressional elections for a seat in Virginia. The Supreme Court heard two cases in the past year—Gill v. Whitford […]

Many legal experts believe the Supreme Court will inevitably hear a case about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. But historically, justices of the nation’s highest court have largely deferred to the executive branch on issues such as immigration and national security. And SCOTUS is especially hesitant to get involved in any […]

As part of the Kinder Institute’s “Global History at Oxford” alumni and undergraduate study abroad trip, Corpus Christi College (Oxford) Senior Research Fellow Nigel Bowles gave a March 29 after-dinner talk on the “Special Relationship.”

Making a stop in Columbia on his scholarly world tour, Cambridge University Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History A. G. Hopkins gave an April 9 talk in Jesse 410 on his most recent book, American Empire: A Global History.