I’ll be speaking about the crisis in the world’s oceans and in the Gulf of Maine on February 7th at the Portland Public Library here in Maine. The talk —… Read more »
Article Topic: Portland
On the Maine (and Icelandic) links of the “grandfather” of American neo-Nazis
In September 1955, Maine’s Portland Press Herald ran a soft feature on a local guy making good. “Publisher Who Loves Children Brings Out A New First Issue” profiled area resident… Read more »
Talking news of the week with NPR’s On Point, August 4
NPR’s “On Point” with Tom Ashbrook is in town this week, and tomorrow, August 4, I’ll be joining them live in studio from 10 to 11 am Eastern to talk… Read more »
Sinclair, “must run” commentary, and Maine’s WGME
In this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram, I write about the nation’s largest owner of local television stations, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, and the “must run” pro-Trump editorials it requires Maine’s WGME-13 to… Read more »
American Character wins the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction
Last Thursday, my neighbor Caitlin Shetterly and I both ventured down to Portland to support one another: we both had books that had been named finalists for the 2017 Maine… Read more »
How will Trump’s budget affect Maine? Let us count the ways.
In today’s Portland Press Herald, seven reporters and I put together a mammoth breaking news story on the effects of President Trump’s proposed budget in Maine. With the president proposing… 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.