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, April 09, 2021 Arm Our Cities With Military-Grade Healthcare, Not Weapons American police are armed to the teeth with military-grade weapons, and the results are in. The more combat gear, the more combat. So how about we arm our cities with military-grade healthcare instead? The US Department of Veterans Affairs is part of the most generously funded institution in the... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 26, 2021 Does the US Have a Culture of Violence? Not the United States of Women " Culture of violence." If I hear that phrase wheeled out one more time to excuse a mass shooter, I’ll scream. That doesn’t mean I’ll head to the gun shop. Which is to say, when it comes to cultures, here in the USA, we’re lucky enough to be able to take our pick. Even a cursory scan of history... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Racism Among the Royals? Really? Shock, horror! There is racism among the royals. I know sarcasm is the laziest form of humor, but is there something about a hereditary white monarchy that we don't yet understand? In what's being called a "hand grenade" interview with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex let rip... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 23, 2021 In Indian Country, It’s Not the Weather, It’s the Racism That’s Leaving Thousands in the Dark Around 30,000 homes in Texas still have no power, and millions of Texans remain under a boil-water mandate days after a deadly winter storm wiped out that state’s weak water and energy systems. In Texas, president Biden has officially declared this scenario a disaster, and the state’s failed... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 28, 2021 Time to Take the Mittens Off! I like as good meme as much as the next person who likes memes, but I have my qualms about the Bernie mitten moment. For those who have been paying attention to something else, in the days after the Biden/Harris inauguration, a picture of Vermont’s Senator Sanders siting masked and in mittens went... Read more |
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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 |