Andrew Dunn

2 weeks ago | newsobserver.com | Andrew Dunn

President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2025. AFP/Getty Images/TNS We keep coming back to the same conversation about the jobs that left North Carolina and never came back. Each time, the conversation gets harder to have.

3 weeks ago | newsobserver.com | Andrew Dunn

Last fall, a massive Palestinian flag draped the front of Davidson College's main academic building. The message - "CEASEFIRE NOW" - was impossible to miss. Cynthia Huang, a senior at Davidson, saw an opportunity to offer another perspective. Her group, Young Americans for Freedom, distributed a pamphlet titled "The Five Myths About Israel Perpetrated by the Pro-Hamas Left," which pushed back against prevailing narratives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

3 weeks ago | ledger-enquirer.com | Andrew Dunn

Government has a way of misplacing power. It gives too much to one branch, then scrambles to take it back - often swinging too far in the other direction. This dynamic is mostly by design. The Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, built a system with three branches meant to check the other. But if history has proven anything, it's that the balance is never quite right. At the federal level, Congress offloads its authority to agencies, then complains when bureaucrats take over.

4 weeks ago | newsobserver.com | Andrew Dunn

Government has a way of misplacing power. It gives too much to one branch, then scrambles to take it back - often swinging too far in the other direction. This dynamic is mostly by design. The Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, built a system with three branches meant to check the other. But if history has proven anything, it's that the balance is never quite right. At the federal level, Congress offloads its authority to agencies, then complains when bureaucrats take over.

1 month ago | newsobserver.com | Andrew Dunn

As governor, Roy Cooper built a reputation as a steady hand in times of crisis. That image was always more perception than reality, but he never faced the kind of sustained scrutiny that could shatter it. Now, as he considers a U.S. Senate run in 2026, that may finally change. With disaster response now a major political flashpoint, national attention is turning to North Carolina. And increasingly, the finger is pointing at Cooper.