APRIL 19, 2026 BOSTON – Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard shared Nationhood Lab’s work on American divisions and the story that unites the U.S. to audiences at Emmanuel College Boston and… Read more »
Articles Tagged: authoritarianism
Discussing Nations Apart with WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane
Last week I was the guest on Philadelphia public radio superstation WHYY’s The Connection, speaking with veteran host Marty Moss-Coane about Nations Apart and the threats to the American republic…. Read more »
OpEd: This is Not A Drill, it’s an accelerating constitutional crisis
Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard argued that the U.S. is in the midst of a constitutional crisis and an effort by the incoming administration to consolidate an authoritarian regime in… Read more »
Speaking about the authoritarian threat to the U.S. with Finland’s Uusi Juttu
Earlier this month, Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard spoke at length with Uuusi Juttu, the upstart Finnish news site founded by Denmark’s Zetland magazine, about the ongoing authoritarian takeover in… Read more »
Speaking with Die Welt about the election results and America’s democratic crisis
Die Welt, the conservative German daily, published a featured interview with Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard Dec. 26, where he discussed the 2024 election results and what they mean for… Read more »
Speaking on the United States’s democratic crisis, Brunswick, Maine, June 5
For the home county crowd: I’ll be speaking on the crisis facing U.S. democracy, how we got here, why we’re vulnerable and what we can do about it, at the… Read more »
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.