SPEAKING
Colin Woodard provides the history of now, the context to understanding events and conditions around us, and the knowledge to make better decisions about how to respond.
Journalism
Half of Americans don’t vote. What are they thinking?
The Map That Shows That City vs. Country Is Not Our Fault Line
Blog
Talking Union and America’s search for national identity with PBS’ “Story in the Public Square”
Maintaining a shared sense of nationhood has always been a special challenge for the United States, arguably the world’s first civic nation, one defined not by organic ties, but by a shared commitment to a set of ideals. As told in my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to... ....Read More
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, where he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.