Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders is the award-winning host and executive producer of The Laura Flanders Show, a nationally-syndicated TV and radio program that looks at real-life models of shifting power in the arts, economics and politics. Flanders founded the women’s desk at media watch group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) and produced and hosted the radio program CounterSpin for a decade. She is also the author of six books, including The New York Times best-seller BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species. Flanders was named Most Valuable Multi-Media Maker of 2018 in The Nation’s Progressive Honor Roll, and was awarded the Izzy Award in 2019 for outstanding achievement in independent media.
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Views Saturday, January 18, 2020 Voters in Iowa Care More About Key Issues Than Warren-Sanders Unity It was a balmy 70 degrees in New York City last Saturday, and the excited green croci began tipping through the earth. Now, that same ground is icy, and those tips are frozen stiff, and I’ve been fearing that the same fate might befall hopeful progressive voters in the wake of the Warren/Sanders... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 16, 2019 Tanisha Anderson, Impeachment, and a Hawk I was thinking about impeachment when a bird fell out of the sky. I was thinking about quid pro quos and the using of the presidency for personal gain when I rounded a corner and saw a hawk, gray and crumpled. It was a bright blue day, and she seemed to have slammed herself into a window, mistaking... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Climate Strike/Auto Strike: Same Struggle, Same Fight Twenty years after turtles and teamsters teamed up to battle the WTO in Seattle, labor strikes and climate strikes are coinciding everywhere but in the media, and that’s dangerous. If history is any guide, any minute now, some two-bit pundit or shameless president will pit workers against... Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 15, 2019 From Voice of America to NPR: New CEO Lansing's Glass House I don’t know about you, but I take a teeny weeny bit of offense when a guy in a glass house lobs a great big stone and expects me not to notice the sound of shattering. Which brings me to National Public Radio. When the ubiquitous news and public affairs network announced the appointment of a new... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 02, 2019 Love and Rights: Contingent or Unconditional? Kali Akuno asks an important question: where would we be as a world today if people of the left had been as organized in 2008 when the financial crash hit as they’d been in 1980 before thirty years of neoliberalism? Akuno, a co-founder and co-coordinator of Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi, asked... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 17, 2019 In Barcelona, Being a Fearless City Mayor Means Letting the People Decide Losing Barcelona. That was the headline on the story in Jacobin this week. A local vote in a far-off city; had I not just returned from Barcelona, I might have left it at that. possibilitiy The truth is, US media give us so little coverage of goings-on elsewhere, and so little context as to why... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 31, 2019 Reporter in Spain Eighty years ago this April, Spain fell under a thirty-year dictatorship after Right beat Left in a brutal civil war. That history feels acutely alive to me today, and not just because, for the first time in my life, I’m in Spain. General Franco’s rebels, backed by Mussolini and Hitler and the... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 20, 2019 Can It Happen Here? Can it happen here? Absolutely it can. Even in a liberal bastion. A few weeks ago, a handful of white supremacists marched into a bookstore in Washington D.C., temporarily disrupting a talk by Jonathan Metzl, the author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 29, 2019 Collusion in Plain Sight A collusion crisis. That’s what the money media are facing since the Attorney General released his summary of the Special Prosecutor’s report. Barr says Mueller says he found no proof of a Russia/Trump campaign conspiracy to subvert US democracy. Oh no! How are cable companies going to keep their... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 09, 2019 Making American Journalism Great and Different A great divide is shaping up in the newspaper business between those who want to make American Journalism “great again” and those who believe it has never been great but could be. It’ll come as no surprise to anyone where I fall. Local papers have taken a hit. There’s no debate about that. The same... Read more |