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The Bottom Line from NC NewslineCuts from Trump and Musk: cruelly making life more difficult for working parentsRep. Deborah Ross (D-NC 2) reads to children at Wanda’s Little Hands, an early childhood education center. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline)
Among the many ways in which the ham-handed policies of President Trump and Elon Musk are making life more difficult for millions of average Americans, the attacks on early childhood education are among the worst.
Access to affordable child care is already a huge problem for American families — especially since the demise of COVID-era subsidies. The situation in North Carolina has grown so dire that even anti-tax crusaders in the state busin...2025-03-2501 minThe Bottom Line from NC NewslineNC legislature should stay in its own laneAttorney General Jeff Jackson said he joined a legal challenge to the federal funding freeze out of concern for “widespread and immediate damage” to North Carolinians. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar)
After having successfully gerrymandered their way to complete control of the state legislature over the last 15 years, you’d think North Carolina Republican lawmakers would be sure enough of themselves to at least occasionally countenance other voices.
Unfortunately, you’d be wrong.
The latest ridiculous example: a bill introduced last week that would effectively prevent the state’s attorney general from doing their job —...2025-02-1001 min
Harvard NewstalkChemistry Giant Charles Lieber Avoids Prison TimeThis week on The Harvard Crimson’s Newstalk, Miles J. Herszenhorn ’25 and Managing Editor Brandon L. Kingdollar ’24 join host Frank Zhou ’26 to discuss the sentencing of renowned nanoscience pioneer and convicted felon Charles Lieber: the trial and downfall of an American chemist once named “the leading chemist in the world” and its impact on U.S.-China educational collaboration. Also in this episode, Asher J. Montgomery ‘26 discusses how Harvard Kennedy School students gathered outside the office of HKS Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf to deliver an open letter signed by hundreds for increased access to mental well-being support at HKS.2023-05-0328 min
Humans of Harvard College PodcastBrandon KingdollarCheck out more of Brandon's work here: https://linktr.ee/BrandonKingdollar
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“It’s just hard to make these kind of relationships when everyone is trying to put a value on you. I want to make deep intimate friendships. I don’t want these surface-level acquaintanceships, they’re okay I guess. I want someone I can spill my soul to. I want someone I can talk to at 3 in the morning and they’ll listen—and I’ll do the same for them. And I feel like it...2021-02-0644 min