My latest installment of the “Balkanized America” series is up over at Medium, this one interpreting what happened in the 2016 presidential election via an American Nations lens, with some… Read more »
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Maine: what happens if there’s a federal shutdown tonight
At this writing, the US government is within hours of its first shutdown since 2013. As President Trump and Congressional leaders try to come up with an agreement, Mainers may… Read more »
Gov. LePage’s support for offshore drilling at odds with every New England member of Congress
This month, when the Trump administration unveiled its plan to open virtually all areas of U.S. federal waters to oil and gas exploration, most of New England’s elected leaders expressed… Read more »
Trump admin to erase voter registation data in effort to deny other voter fraud commission docs to Dunlap
The struggle over transparency at President Trump’s voter fraud commission continues even after its demise. In yesterday’s Portland Press Herald, I updated the ongoing drama between the White House and… Read more »
Trump disbands voter fraud commission, which now refuses to give Dunlap documents
President Trump this week pulled the plug on his controversial voter fraud commission, but the drama surrounding it has only escalated. Trump’s decision came on the heels of a federal… Read more »
Federal judge rules against Trump voter fraud commission in dispute with Maine commissioner
Late yesterday evening, a federal judge riled in favor of Maine’s member of President Trump’s voter fraud commission, who had sought an injunction to force the body to provide him access to… Read more »
Rescheduled: talking Journalism in the Trump Age, Dec. 19 Scarborough, Maine
On Tuesday, Dec. 19, I’ll be speaking on “Journalism in the Age of Trump” at the Scarborough Public Library here in Maine. It’s rescheduled from last week, when frozen rain… Read more »
Maine member of Trump fraud commission not backing down
For months now I’ve been covering Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap’s participation in President Donald Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity for the Portland Press Herald. In that time, Dunlap… Read more »
Maine member sues Trump’s voter fraud commission for access to proceedings
Today Maine’s member of President Trump’s voter fraud commission sued the body in federal court after its staff for weeks ignored his request for documents and information about its deliberations…. Read more »
American Nations, now in Korean
The Korean language edition of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America arrived recently in my mail. Turns out Donald Trump made the cover,… 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.