Article Topic: Politico

Talking with NBC News about Paul LePage’s return

Posted June 19th, 2022 & filed under Janet Mills, Maine, Maine politics, media appearances, NBC, Paul LePage, Politico, Portland Phoenix, Portland Press Herald.

Maine has a gubernatorial election this November that in some ways presages a possible Biden-Trump rematch in 2024. Incumbent Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is a moderate who’s upset her party’s… Read more »

Paul LePage is back and Maine braces for a political storm

Posted September 23rd, 2021 & filed under Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, Politico, US politics.

Here in Maine, former Governor Paul LePage — who has described himself as “Trump before Trump” — officially kicked off his campaign to return to the governor’s mansion last night… Read more »

Speaking with NPR’s “1A” about non-voters in the United States

Posted September 17th, 2020 & filed under media appearances, Politico, US politics.

Nearly 100 million eligible U.S. voters chose not to exercise the franchise. Why not? What can be done to change that? Who would they vote for if they participated? These… Read more »

Decoding the U.S.’s 92 million non-voters

Posted February 22nd, 2020 & filed under Pennsylvania, Politico, US dispatches, US politics.

Non-voters are the biggest wild card in U.S. electoral politics, a cohort of some 92 million adults who are eligible to vote, but seldom do so. They’re eclectic, with distinctive… Read more »

Talking about Maine’s Ranked Choice Voting odyssey on NHPR, May 17

Posted May 16th, 2018 & filed under Maine, Maine politics, media appearances, New Hampshire, Politico, Portland Press Herald, US politics.

For those of you in the Granite State, I’ll be your guest in the morning on New Hampshire Public Radio’s “The Exchange,” talking about Maine’s Ranked Choice Voting odyssey. The… Read more »

Maine’s ranked choice voting odyssey

Posted March 29th, 2018 & filed under Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, Politico, US politics.

My latest for POLITICO Magazine is on Maine’s ranked choice voting odyssey, which at the time the piece came out 48 hours ago already had more twists and turns than… Read more »

Can a fallen New Hampshire mill town become the Silicon Valley of human organ manufacturing?

Posted December 19th, 2017 & filed under business reporting, New England, New Hampshire, Politico, science stories, What Works.

Over at POLITICO, I have the story of how inventor Dean Kamen is leading a $300 million push to resolve bottlenecks in the mass production of genetically-customized human tissues and… 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.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than 50 countries and seven continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet empire and the transition that followed. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago he is past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy.

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