Over at Nationhood Lab — the project I founded at the Pell Center — we recently produced an American Nations-driven analysis of the regional geography of U.S. life expectancy wherein… Read more »
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Woodard discusses Nationhood Lab’s geography of gun violence work with Maine Public and Wisconsin Public Radio
Colin Woodard, director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab, spoke May 10 with two statewide public radio networks about the Pell Center project’s latest work on the geography of gun… Read more »
Talking with NBC News about Paul LePage’s return
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
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
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
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
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
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 »
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.