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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.

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.

For the second official installment of the “Notes from the Capital” update series, we have a brief feature on Mary Grace Newman’s time as an Education and Public Programs intern with the National Archives, complete with news of her chance encounter with the nation’s first president. Click here for the series’ first installment, now updated […]

Each year, a cohort of 20-plus MU undergrads makes the trek eastward to the capital in early June to take part in the Kinder Institute’s annual Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program. Through the program, they spend the next two months interning at various sites throughout Washington, reading and discussing materials for the co-taught “Beltway History […]

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 […]