Signature Event Pandemics of the Future and Today Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:30pm If, indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic is waning in the United States, the questions and concerns around it have not. Where do dangerous new viruses lik... Read More
Signature Event Climate Courage Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:30pm There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society... Read More
Signature Event April Ryan: The Presidency and the Press Tuesday, June 15, 2021 6:30pm Pressing then-President Donald Trump on the issue of voter suppression a little more than 2½ years ago, veteran White House correspondent A... Read More
Signature Event The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H. W. Bush's Post-Presidency Wednesday, June 9, 2021 6:30pm Online These rancorous political times arouse a certain wistfulness for a president who sought a “kinder and gentler nation.” George H. W.... Read More
Signature Event Felon: A Play Tuesday, June 8, 2021 6:30pm Before emerging as a critically acclaimed writer and poet and earning appointments to criminal justice panels by President Obama and the governor o... Read More
Signature Event From Wettest Block to Wickedest City Sunday, June 6, 2021 3:00pm Online It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi... Read More
Signature Event Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power Thursday, June 3, 2021 6:30pm Online The sweeping story of the private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman is a window into the rise of American capitalism and our country’s subseq... Read More
Signature Event Making College Matter (More) Thursday, May 27, 2021 6:30pm Online Higher education has been in the news a lot lately as politicians debate the merits of student loan forgiveness and free community college tuition.... Read More
Signature Event Kidney to Share Wednesday, May 26, 2021 6:30pm Online There are more than 90,000 people on the kidney transplant list in the United States. Every day, 13 of them die waiting for a call. We need more li... Read More
Signature Event 9:29: The Minutes that Moved Kansas City Tuesday, May 25, 2021 7:00pm The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, moved the world and Kansas City in ways that are still coming into focus. KS... Read More