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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 […]

A news item so exciting it gets its own post, Kinder Institute Director Justin Dyer and Kinder Institute Associate Professor of Constitutional Democracy Adam Seagrave took to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently to address the sometimes contested distinction between calling the United States a democracy vs. calling the nation a republic. Read the full text of […]

Thanks to the hard work of our longtime collaborator Dr. Steve Belko, Executive Director of the Missouri Humanities Council, the Kinder Institute has officially entered a statewide alliance of six nonprofit organizations and government agencies mutually committed to developing educational, community outreach, and scholarly research projects and events related to the Missouri Bicentennial. Representatives of […]

A pair of Kinder Institute faculty members sat down during the Fall 2017 semester with our friends at Columbia-based NPR affiliate KBIA (91.3) to talk about projects they have in the works.

We would like to give a special thanks to C-Span for helping us create an archive of recent Kinder Institute events: Unbound Book Festival panel on “Is the First Amendment in Crisis,” with Kinder Institute and MU Law Associate Professor Carli Conklin (moderator), and panelists Stephanie Shonekan (Chair of MU’s Black Studies Department), David Von […]

For Round 2 of our “Notes from the Capital” series of updates from our undergrads out in D.C., we have first-person accounts of the intern’s life and more from rising senior Lauren Russ (International Studies) and rising junior Tom Coulter (Journalism/History). We’ll let them take it from here… from Lauren “This summer I’m interning with […]