Articles – 2025
Immigrants Once Avoided Some Regions of America. That’s a Big Reason We’re So Divided; Today’s debates over immigration and assimilation have their roots in patterns of settlement that go back centuries; Politico, MAGAZINE, 13 December 2025.
Opponents of JD Vance’s Story of America Need to Speak Up; the administration’s ethnonationalism is exactly what the American Experiment is against; New York Times, OPINION, 3 November 2025
America is sliding toward authoritarianism. That’s not popular; the U.S. is already a hybrid regime, no longer a functioning democracy with rule of law, not yet a dictatorship; Bangor Daily News, OPINION, 3 October 2025.
The 2025 election and North America’s regional cultures: Trumpism is a non-starter on the Canadian federal stage. The regional cultures behind its rise to power in the United States simply aren’t present north of the border; Inside Policy, MacDonald-Laurier Institute, 9 July 2025
This July 4, Where is America’s Land of Opportunity?; The geographies of upward mobility show U.S. regions that emphasize investments in the common good over economic libertarianism do better; Washington Monthly (online); SPECIAL REPORTS, 4 July 2025.
Yes, There’s Still a Shared American Story; if we’re to live in freedom, we embrace and defend it; COSCOM Commentary, American Enterprise Institute, OpED, 25 June 2025.
Yes, There’s Still A Shared American Identity; And here’s how we can make it a force for good; The Next Move; (Renew Democracy Initiative’s substack), 23 May 2025.
Yes, there is still a shared American story; If we’re to live in freedom, we must come together to embrace and defend it; Maine Sunday Telegram; INSIGHT, 6 April 2025, p. D1
This is not a drill. It’s a constitutional crisis; The U.S. in the midst of an attempt to consolidate an authoritarian regime. We all have a stake in the protection of the Republic; Maine Sunday Telegram; INSIGHT, 15 February 2025, p. D1
The 2024 Presidential Election and U.S. Regional Cultures; A quarter century of political, social, and economic upheaval has left little mark on the political behavior of the “American Nations” regions; Washington Monthly (online); POLITICS, 17 January 2025.
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven 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 Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.