In tomorrow’s Portland Press Herald, I have a story on a development President Trump probably didn’t expect. Two members of his nascent commission on voter fraud — assembled to investigate… Read more »
Article Topic: US politics
Talking American Nations with CNN’s Bill Weir (for real this time)
It was delayed by a week on account of the London Bridge attacks, but Bill Weir’s CNN special “States of Change” premiered Saturday night on CNN and CNN International, including… Read more »
Maine’s senators and the Comey Hearing
The big news in Washington this week has been the public hearing in which former FBI director James Comey testified under oath about his interactions with President Donald Trump, who… Read more »
Talking American Nations on CNN
I’m pleased to be one of the guests on a CNN special airing this Saturday, June 3 at 9 pm Eastern, where I’ll be talking about the regional cultures outlined… Read more »
Bill Cohen on Watergate and today
In this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram, I talk to former US Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen and several of his former aides about what it was like to… Read more »
In Maine, an ALEC bill to support a rewrite the US Constitution
In yesterday’s Portland Press Herald, I have another story involving a model text from the American Legislative Exchange Council making being introduced in the Maine legislature. This one has national… Read more »
Ohio, Oregon media consider American Nations-guided secession
As readers of American Nations probably know, I’m not a fan of the idea of breaking up the United States, for reasons I outlined more directly in this book review… Read more »
Speaking on American polarization, Brunswick, Maine, May 20
I’m pleased to be a panelist alongside Harvard University’s Theda Skocpol at the 2017 Maine League of Women Voters Convention this Saturday morning, May 20. Skocpol, a scholar who studied… Read more »
Collins mum, King alarmed by Trump’s shifting explanation on Comey firing
In Friday’s Portland Press Herald, I had a follow up on how Maine’s two US Senators — both of whom sit on the committee leading the key probe into the… 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.