Articles Tagged: US Senate

Can Mills catch Platner? On the US Senate race with The Christian Science Monitor

Posted April 16th, 2026 & filed under Media.

Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard, a Maine native who covered that state’s Congressional delegation and electoral politics for the Portland Press Herald, was interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor for an extensive story on… Read more »

Moderating a US Senate Democratic primary debate, Topsham, Maine, April 11

Posted March 12th, 2026 & filed under .

The US Senate race in Maine could determine which party controls the Senate for the next two years of Donald Trump’s presidency, with the rule of law at stake. Democratic… 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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