Articles Tagged: Maine politics

In Maine, Republican election deniers are at the top of the ticket

Posted October 24th, 2022 & filed under Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, Media, Paul LePage, Portland Press Herald, US politics.

There are few forces more insidious to the survival of a democratic republic than top level political figures making fact-free claims that elections are illegitimate because they didn’t like what… Read more »

Talking with NBC News about Paul LePage’s return

Posted June 19th, 2022 & filed under Janet Mills, Maine, Maine politics, media appearances, NBC, Paul LePage, Politico, Portland Phoenix, Portland Press Herald.

Maine has a gubernatorial election this November that in some ways presages a possible Biden-Trump rematch in 2024. Incumbent Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is a moderate who’s upset her party’s… Read more »

Talking with Penobscot Nation Ambassador Maulian Dana about tribal sovereignty in Maine

Posted March 1st, 2022 & filed under American Indian Affairs, Maine dispatches, Maine history, Maine politics, Media, media appearances, Portland Press Herald.

As readers of my 30-part Portland Press Herald series “Unsettled” know, Maine has treated the state’s Indian tribes horrifically within living memory, denying tribal people the right to vote, serve… Read more »

Paul LePage is back and Maine braces for a political storm

Posted September 23rd, 2021 & filed under Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, Politico, US politics.

Here in Maine, former Governor Paul LePage — who has described himself as “Trump before Trump” — officially kicked off his campaign to return to the governor’s mansion last night… Read more »

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.

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 and a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy.

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