Colin Woodard·In the News·February 11, 2026·1 min readWoodard speaks with Minnesota Star Tribune about ICE campaign’s collision with Yankee regional cultural normsStar Tribune staff columnist Jill Burcum sought out the American Nations angle to the Trump administration's deadly and frequently lawless operation in the North Star State.
Colin Woodard·FeaturedIn the News·January 2, 2026·2 min readFor Politico: the historical roots of our (regional) immigration divideThe "Great Wave" immigrants didn't come to the Dixie regions, where policies and public attitudes toward them remain unfriendly today
Colin Woodard·In the News·October 8, 2025·1 min readOpEd: America is sliding toward authoritarianism. It’s really unpopular
Colin Woodard·In the News·February 25, 2025·1 min readOpEd: This is Not A Drill; Nationhood Lab director on the accelerating constitutional crisisWriting in Maine's largest newspaper, the Pell Center's Colin Woodard warns the U.S. is in witnessing an effort to consolidate an authoritarian regime
