Colin discussed the latest American Nations-powered work he’s doing at Nationhood Lab with Katy Tur on MSNBC’s Katy Tur Reports Monday afternoon.
In the live segment — available in its entirety here at the Internet Archive — Colin described his Pell Center project’s new research showing massive regional differences in the per capita rates of gun homicides and suicides, which persist when segmented by urbanity and race of victim. “It’s almost like we’re looking at separate countries,” he told Tur.
The research, published Sunday, received prompt national attention via his magazine-length article on its findings in Politico, which also published Sunday.
Tur’s show — currently the tenth most-watched in MSNBC’s lineup ahead of Morning Joe, Inside with Jenn Psaki, and Andrea Mitchell Reports — had an average viewership of 978,000 Monday, according to ratings compiling portal US TVDB.
Nationhood Lab, a project Colin founded at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, delivers more effective tools with which to describe and defend the American liberal democratic tradition and better understand the forces undermining it.
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.