Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders interviews forward-thinking people about the key questions of our time on The Laura Flanders Show, a nationally syndicated radio and television program also available as a podcast. A contributing writer to The Nation, Flanders is also the author of six books, including "Bushwomen: How They Won the White House for Their Man" (2005). She is the recipient of a 2019 Izzy Award for excellence in independent journalism, the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award for advancing women’s and girls’ visibility in media, and a 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship for her reporting and advocacy for public media. lauraflanders.org
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Views Friday, January 15, 2021 We Should Learn From Georgia to Show Us the Way Forward The answer to what happened in Washington last Wednesday is what happened in Georgia last Tuesday. The answer to the yell and the noose of white macho supremacy is the slow, hard labor of making society democratic. The debate over Amazon dropping Parler and Twitter and Facebook dropping Donald... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 15, 2020 The Times They Ain’t a-Changing I’ve never been a Bob Dylan fan, and the Nobel Prize winner’s sale of his archive to Universal Music changed nothing about that. In fact, sing as he might about how The Times They are a-Changing, Dylan’s deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anything. But it could have... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 17, 2020 The Media's Quadrennial Eclipse Whatever will he do next? The cable newscasters cry, eager to ply their audiences with more of the drip, drip that keeps advertisers hooked. If you’re feeling withdrawal from Disaster Don’s tweets, there are pictures of his golf cart and non-news of his non-lawsuits. And Joe, oh Joe, and the next... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 21, 2020 The US Spends More Than $80 Billion a Year Incarcerating 2.3 Million People The US today spends more than $80 billion a year incarcerating 2.3 million people in state and federal prisons, local jails, youth facilities and deportation centers. That’s $80 billion that comes out of public coffers and goes into public confinement. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 07, 2020 If the President Had HIV He Could Be in Prison Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If the Donald was a poor man, poorly defended and in poor health, there’s a good chance he’d be facing criminal charges. Under laws that Republicans have... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 23, 2020 Mourn Justice Ginsburg and Fight to Close Irwin Detention Center “Ruth Bader Ginsburg changed the way the law sees gender... She changed the course of American law... She touched the lives of generations of men and women... She pushed for a full and inclusive definition of equality." Those are just some of the ways people have described Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 01, 2020 Take On the Tech Mob Now or Perish Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record, while Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook only added wealth. In just three months, April through June, so many workers were furloughed, laid off or forced to work and school from home, that the economy... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 17, 2020 As Trump Moves to Hide Covid-19, We Already Know Which Communities Are Suffering Most Transparency, transparency, transparency. The word has become a battle cry in Trump times, and there was another skirmish this week when the administration ordered hospitals to send their Covid-19 data not to the Centers for Disease Control, where it’s publicly available, but rather to the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 09, 2020 Paradigms Take Years to Shift Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law. In just the last week, the Minneapolis school board resolved to cut their contract with city police in the schools. The mayor of Los Angeles announced that his city was considering cutting the city’s police... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 24, 2020 A Memorial Day For Lies? So which will it be? Will this disaster spark a shift for the better? Or will the deadly myths white Americans tell ourselves survive Covid-19? Memorial Day messaging bodes ill. I want to believe that after the coronavirus crisis, US society will emerge sobered, smarter and more aware of the ways... Read more |