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Legal & Government
Signature Event
Thursday, June 7, 2012
3:00pm
In Person
The shift from old-fashioned paper ballots to electronic voting has raised concerns over whether elections results can be manipulated. Are our vot...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 3, 2012
3:00pm
In Person
Whether an election is about picking a president or passing a tax increase, citizens may find themselves asking: “Does my vote really count?...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 5, 2012
3:00pm
In Person
Elections are the single most important element of the American political system, the process that determines who will lead us. But elections don’t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
What, exactly, is presidential leadership? What is the current state of executive power in the U.S.? What lingering effects will the current financial...
Signature Event
Monday, February 20, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian of the United States Senate Donald Ritchie discusses presidential relations with Congress since Harry S. Truman.
Ritchie...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Wendell Potter, a former VP of CIGNA, argues that health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, flout regulations...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 5, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with former Missouri Governor Bob Holden, explo...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 8, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer discusses the role of the Court in American government and explains why he believe...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 3, 2011
2:30pm
In Person
Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders delivers his annual State of the County Address in the Truman Forum of the Kansas City Publi...
Signature Event
Monday, October 17, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Supreme Discomfort, written by Washington Post staffers Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher...