Donald Trump and his allies are marking the 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence by attacking what it stands for, Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard wrote in an opinion… Read more »
Articles Tagged: Donald Trump
Trump’s support is collapsing in every American Nations region
Over at Nationhood Lab, I recently posted a regional analysis of Trump’s approval ratings, based on G. Elliott Morris’s polls and local-level model. It presents a devastating picture for the… Read more »
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: America is sliding toward authoritarianism. It’s really unpopular
In an opinion essay in Maine’s Bangor Daily News, Nationhood Lab director Colin warned the United States was already a hybrid regime — no longer a democracy, not yet an… 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 »
The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations
For Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard wrote about Nationhood Lab’s recent analysis of the 2024 presidential vote via the lens of the U.S. regional cultures identified in the… 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 »
Discussing the election results with CBC Nova Scotia
The day after former President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard about the results, an analysis via the American Nations… Read more »
Speaking on implications of U.S. midterms in Brussels, Nov. 16
The U.S. midterm elections — with their consequences for the survival of democracy and continued American commitment to Ukraine — are being closely followed by our European allies. The German Marshall… 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.