Candidates are battling for North Carolina’s military vote, a bloc traditionally seen as conservative.
Daniel Johnson
Daniel Johnson is a Roy H. Park doctoral fellow at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a journalist for the U.S. Army in 2016 in Iraq, and has reported for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Work he contributed to on blast overpressure injuries was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting in 2024.
The War Inside
This story is published in partnership with The Assembly. It’s hard to explain the sound standing behind artillery when it fires, a roar no movie can ever match that will temporarily render you deaf without proper ear protection. Then there’s the sight: the gun jerks violently, smoke billows from the tube, dust fills your battle position and […]

