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 The New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species. 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 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 |
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Views Wednesday, May 13, 2020 The Future Is Up for Grabs When it comes to cashing in on Covid-19, the race has just begun. Whether you’re talking about education or contact tracing or medicine or mind control, an anti-democratic, dystopian future is being charted while we the people are locked down, locked up and locked out. Google is grabbing our data,... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 24, 2020 Covid By The Numbers I was feeling better before I started this. How much better? Two, three, 500 times better? It’s hard to say. Numbers are blurring in my mind. Six is a number I’m clear about. Come Sunday, six is the number of weeks I will have spent in this place. Two, the number of people in my household. Two, the... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 10, 2020 Thank You, Bernie Sanders. Screw You, New York Times. It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical dreams and then dance on them. And that’s just what the New York Times did the day after Bernie Sanders bowed out of the Democratic race for the nomination. On that day, in a special editorial, the editors of the very same paper that... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 28, 2020 Covid-19: Our Health Crisis Is Born of Bigotry “A bridge is no stronger than its weakest part.” Former slave turned educator Anna Julia Cooper uttered those very contemporary-sounding words back in 1892. The US didn’t heed them then; we haven’t heeded them yet. The big question, brought home to us one more time by the Covid-19 crisis, is why... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 15, 2020 Democracy vs. Dictatorship: Don't Let Bloomberg Muddy That Choice The 2020 presidential race didn’t get decided this week, but the choice before us did: more democracy or less of it. That’s the decision we are facing, and if the Democrats manage to foul this up, they may not get another chance. The very same day that New Hampshire held its primary, the president... Read more |