BEVERLY HILLS, CA, May 9 – The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab addressed the Milken Global Conference last week to discuss the nature of the divides in the United States and approaches to… Read more »
Article Topic: California
Exclusive: Dana Rohrabacher confirms he marched on Capitol Jan.6
In today’s print edition of the Portland Press Herald I broke the story that former U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher — a Trump ally who earned the moniker “Putin’s favorite Congressman”… Read more »
New allegations against a Maine “medical supply” company led by man facing fraud indictments
It’s Election Day 2020. Stay safe and, if you pray, do so for the survival of the American Experiment. In my Maine reporting, I’ve been focused on the other crisis… Read more »
“Putin’s Favorite Congressman” moves to Maine
Dana Rohrabacher is a surfing enthusiast, cannabis activist, and former Reagan speechwriter who once joined muhajadeeen to attack Russian targets and Afghanistan and arm wrestled a visiting bureaucrat named Vladimir… Read more »
The Mainer spearheading West Coast fishermen’s climate change suit against Big Oil
Last month, a coalition of West Coast fishermen filed a suit against thirty of the world’s major oil companies in California Superior Court seeking damages for the latter having allegedly… Read more »
Talking American Nations and the midterms on KABC Los Angeles
While Americans were voting, I rejoined Peter Tilden at Los Angeles’ talk radio mega station KABC to discuss American Nations, American Character, and the implications for the midterms. Our conversation is available online… Read more »
Talking Maine’s 1820 split from Mass. with KQED’s California Report
This November, Californians will be asked if they want to split their state into three, a measure spearheaded by venture capitalist Tim Draper. I wrote about some of the problems… Read more »
Bad borders: what US secessionists’ proposals miss
The sixth installment of my “Balkanized America” series is up over at Medium, looking at how contemporary US secessionists and state-splitters — from Ted Draper’s “Six Californias” and CAL3 plans 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 Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram 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.