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News & ViewsNC Newsline reporter Brandon Kingdollar on the impact of the Border Patrol’s immigration crackdownNC Newsline reporter Brandon Kingdollar
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is causing heartache and consternation for thousands upon thousands of North Carolinians. What’s more it’s not just people lacking proper documentation who are being negatively impacted. As NC Newsline journalist Brandon Kingdollar recently reported, in many instances, it’s American citizens and lawful residents who are being wrongfully targeted and harmed, and recently, we caught up with Brandon to learn more. We also got a chance to ask him about another controversial federal law enforcement initiative – this one targeting a product that millions of...
2025-12-0118 min
Podcasts Archives • NC NewslineNC Newsline reporter Brandon Kingdollar on the impact of the Border Patrol’s immigration crackdownNC Newsline reporter Brandon Kingdollar
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is causing heartache and consternation for thousands upon thousands of North Carolinians. What’s more it’s not just people lacking proper documentation who are being negatively impacted. As NC Newsline journalist Brandon Kingdollar recently reported, in many instances, it’s American citizens and lawful residents who are being wrongfully targeted and harmed, and recently, we caught up with Brandon to learn more. We also got a chance to ask him about another controversial federal law enforcement initiative – this one targeting a product that millions of...
2025-12-0118 min
Due SouthLocal impacts of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle DEI, from NC universities to national parks0:01:00NC’s future scientists may choose new paths after NIH cutsThe effort to end DEI programs across the federal government is having a range of impacts, including the future of science. Due South’s Jeff Tiberii talks with Lynn Bonner and Brandon Kingdollar of NC Newsline about their recent article titled “NC’s next generation of scientists fear careers are going ‘up in smoke’ as NIH grants end.”Lynn Bonner, Investigative Reporter, NC NewslineBrandon Kingdollar, Reporter, NC Newsline0:13:00
A Chronicle reporter investigates closure of Duke graduate student support...
2025-09-2450 min
The 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