Spoke with the @bostonglobe.com about the new book and the state of U.S. democracy. "That’s kind of the tragedy: that we fooled ourselves into thinking of each other as our mortal enemies, when a lot of us agree on a lot of stuff." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/09/o...

$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

Greater New Haven, CT folks: these newly signed books await you at the @barnesandnoble.com’s in Milford (L) and North Haven:

Who could have ever foreseen this problem?

Great to see my piece on U.S. civic vs ethnic nationalism picked up for my Minnesota friends by the @startribune.com this morning: www.startribune.com/american-val...

During the Eisenhower administration, the top marginal tax rate was 91 percent.

barely a metaphor lmao

Newburyport, Mass.: @jabberwockybooks.bsky.social has these newly signed titles, just in time for the holidays. Please read responsibly.

Southern Massachusettsians, rejoice! The @barnesandnoble.com in North Dartmouth has these newly signed books awaiting good homes, Including the brand new one, Nations Apart.

Hey Greater New Haven, CT: the @barnesandnoble.com in Milford has these newly signed books just waiting for you, your loved ones, and your family pets (if they can read.)

Did Ross Douthat Ruin his Workplace?

D.C. friends: I'll be presenting my new book, Nations Apart -- which shows how we got here as a country and what we can do about it -- a Politics and Prose Bookstore's flagship Connecticut Ave location the evening of November 13. Come say hello! Details: politics-prose.com/colin-woodar...

These books now signed! You know what to do, Salem. (No, not the witches thing, the holiday gift buying.)

Rhode Islanders: I'm presenting the new book, Nations Apart, tonight at Nationhood Lab's home base, Salve Regina U (@salvereginauni.bsky.social) in Newport. Free. Public. Registration info: events.salve.edu/event/nation...

West Virginia eastern pandhandle people (and Loudon/Frederick friends): I'm presenting Nations Apart -- which tells how we got here and what we can do about it -- in beautiful Shepherdstown Nov. 12. Hosted by @fourseasonsbooks.bsky.social at the Byrd Center. www.fourseasonsbooks.com/nations-apar...

Thanks to the engaged, thoughtful, capacity crowd who braved darkness and inside-of-128 traffic last night, and to the most excellent @belmontbooks.bsky.social for hosting. You rock.

D.C. friends: I'll be presenting my new book, Nations Apart -- which shows how we got here as a country and what we can do about it -- a Politics and Prose Bookstore's flagship Connecticut Ave location the evening of November 13. Come say hello! Details: politics-prose.com/colin-woodar...

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.

“If we abandon the Declaration’s ideals in favor of a tribal concept of national membership, we’re done for.” — Colin Woodard, the author of “Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

South Portland, Mainers: the B&N near the Maine Mall has you covered for signed copies of this author’s titles.

'If we’re to remain a free society, those committed to the American experiment are going to need to start expressing our civic national ideals as effectively and compellingly as the ethnonationalists articulate theirs.' Via @colinwoodard.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Great turnout to hear @colinwoodard.bsky.social f#nationhoodlab @salvereginauni.bsky.social @pellcenter.bsky.social give a turbo tour of #AmericanNations #nationsapart - history, data, context - best books to understand our current national dysfunction... #portlandmaine #civiceducation

Portland, Mainers: the good folks at @printbookstore.bsky.social, have these newly signed books in stock. The holidays are coming - yiu know what to do!

Portland, Maine: Nations Apart went on sale today and it and its cousins are all newly signed at Sherman’s on Exchange. Perfect gift for the doomed!

This was a fun evening. Sold out crowd seeded with many friends for the launch of Nations Apart. Thanks, Mechanics' Hall and Longfellow Books for making it happen. Resurgam!

A special shout out to my doppelganger, @collinwoodard.bsky.social, who's now having to field half my media requests simply for having a similar name.

Thanks to the @sltrib.com for picking up my @nytopinion.nytimes.com piece on our shared *civic* national story. Utahns know! www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

Tonight -- the on sale day for Nations Apart -- I'll be at @belmontbooks.bsky.social in the eponymous Boston suburb. (Yes, the town was named for the bookstore... Don't argue, I'm a historian.) Come say hello.

A battle rages across America “over what it means to be an American and what our nation should aspire to be,” writes Colin Woodard. “It’s part of a war between two stories of nationhood that we’ve been waging since the United States was created 249 years ago.”

My take, in today's @nytimes.com:

Essential reading from @colinwoodard.bsky.social on the stories that shape our identity as a nation: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

NYT bestselling author Colin Woodard to discuss regional divisions at Salve Regina

For those of you in Salem, Mass and vicinity:

There’ still a shared American story, I write in @nytimes.com, and the data shows it isn’t Vance’s ethnonationalist one. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

“If we’re to remain a free society, those committed to the American experiment are going to need to start expressing our civic national ideals as effectively and compellingly as the ethnonationalists articulate theirs.”

Under the Eisenhower administration, the top marginal tax rate was 91 percent.

There’ still a shared American story, I write in @nytimes.com, and the data shows it isn’t Vance’s ethnonationalist one. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

All the pundits and news outlets that bought into these schmucks’ transparent nonsense about antisemitism at the Ivies should reflect for a few minutes on how badly and easily they were played.

Mainers: my new book, Nations Apart, has its "exclusive, worldwide premiere" in Portland the evening of Nov. 3 at Mechanics Hall, a ticketed event co-hosted by Longfellow Books. The subject: how we got here as a country and what we can do about it. Register: mechanicshallmaine.org/events/colin...

Mainers: my new book, Nations Apart, has its "exclusive, worldwide premiere" in Portland the evening of Nov. 3 at Mechanics Hall, a ticketed event co-hosted by Longfellow Books. The subject: how we got here as a country and what we can do about it. Register: mechanicshallmaine.org/events/colin...

From best paper in the country to a pathetic mouse, squeaking plaintive quisling sounds and pumping out little turds in the hope Dear Leader will take notice and give its owner some bits of cheese.

From best paper in the country to a pathetic mouse, squeaking plaintive quisling sounds and pumping out little turds in the hope Dear Leader will take notice and give its owner some bits of cheese.

The Paul LePage gambit.

Beyond parody.

American Nations was a pivotal book for me. Looking forward to getting a copy of his new one and seeing how Woodard's thinking has cast forward in light of....events.