Articles – 2026

Trump’s Blood and Soil 250th; The president and his allies have waged war on the ideals at the heart of the Declaration of Independence; Minnesota Star Tribune; OPINION, 14 July 2026.

God’s Country: America250 History Comic Book Has Very Strong Opinions About the Constitution; Talking Points Memo, CAFE, 3 July 2026.

Social Capital: Which U.S. Regions Are Bowling Alone?; The distribution of social capital in the United States is linked to differences in regional attitudes toward public goods; Washington Monthly (online); POLITICS, 25 May 2026.

The Time When New York City Seriously Considered Seceding From the United States; A culture clash driven by finances and Old World alignments had the Big Apple contemplating leaving the Union. The Civil War ended that; Smithsonian Magazine, January/February 2026.

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.

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, a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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