This post was first published 30 October 2021. I cover Maine’s congressional delegation for the state’s largest paper, the Portland Press Herald, and over the past week have been keeping… Read more »
Articles Tagged: US politics
Talking about the state of U.S. democracy with Japan’s Asahi Shimbun
Ever since American Nations came out in Japanese translation a few years ago, there’s been consistent interest in the paradigm in Japan, where those who follow international relations have been… Read more »
Talking American Nations, 10 years later, with The Daily Beast
American Nations just turned ten years old and, given all that’s happened to the United States since 2011, Kevin Lee recently gave me a call to talk about it for… Read more »
Paul LePage is back and Maine braces for a political storm
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 »
The American Nations and the Geography of Covid-19 Vaccinations
As the delta variant has overtaken the United States, refilling hospital intensive care units and killing many thousands of each week, Americans are once again seeing the profound effects… Read more »
Talking Union in York, Maine, Sept.14.
For those in southern Maine or Seacoast New Hampshire: I’ll be speaking on my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the story of United States Nationhood at the York… Read more »
Rep. Golden on disrupting Democratic leader’s strategy, Afghanistan
US Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME02) is the most successful Democrat in Trumpland, having won more crossover Trump voters than any other Democrat currently in the House, this in a district… Read more »
Speaking on American Nations trilogy – Washington, D.C. (private)
Speaking to the American Studies international fellows. Private event closed to public.
Union talk – Kennebunk, Maine
I’ll be speaking about my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, at the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine. It’s a public… Read more »
Talking American Nations on the 99pages channel, Aug. 1
I’ll be speaking with LinkedIn’s Rajiv Srinivasan about American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America on his 99pages YouTube stream on August 1st. It’s… 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.