Articles Tagged: economics

On the regional geography of opportunity and the American Nations

Posted July 7th, 2025 & filed under Media.

For Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard wrote about Nationhood Lab’s recent work on the regional geography of opportunity and economic distress. The piece was also published at Real Clear Policy…. Read more »

The Regional Geography of Household Credit, Debt, and Delinquency`

Posted April 3rd, 2025 & filed under American Nations, Media, Nationhood Lab.

Over at Nationhood Lab, I wrote about the regional divides in household creditworthiness, debt, and delinquency and the correlations with lack of medical care, using the regional cultures described in… 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.

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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