Laura Flanders

Former Air America Radio host, Laura Flanders is the host and founder of GRITtv with Laura Flanders, a daily talk show for people who want to do more than talk. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press, 2007). A regular contributor on MSNBC, Flanders has appeared on shows from Real Time with Bill Maher to The O’Reilly Factor. Flanders is the editor of At the Tea Party: The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-whiteness of the New Republican Right… and Why we Should Take it Seriously (October 2010, OR books). For more information, go to LauraFlanders.com or GRITtv.org.

Articles

Why Immigration Is a Feminist Issue (Gender and Sexuality, Immigration to the US)

With draconian laws like Georgia’s HB 87 hitting women especially hard, women’s groups are taking up the fight for immigrants’ rights.

Laura Flanders

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Talking to Nader (Political Figures, Campaigns and Elections, Politics)

The independent candidate discusses Obama, healthcare, and why the heck he's running.

Laura Flanders

Raise the Bar (Parties, Presidential Election 2008, The Left, Politics)

Grassroots Democrats, parched for their party's attention, should play hardball with candidates on Iraq.

Laura Flanders

Grassroots Reseeded: Suites vs. Streets (Voting, Parties, Electoral Politics, Politics)

This could be the year that Democrats finally let the people play a role in politics.

Laura Flanders

Bottom-Up Power (Campaigns and Elections, Electoral Politics, Politics)

In Montana, grassroots campaigns elected politicians and influenced policy. The same can happen across the country.

Laura Flanders

Obama's Ruined Homeland (Barack Obama, Regions and Countries)

In Kenya's Yala Swamp, where Senator Barack Obama traces his African roots, an Oklahoma-based company has wrecked a rich and delicate ecosystem.

Laura Flanders

Letters

SAVE YOUR CONFEDERATE MONEY...

Manchester, NJ

Thomas Geoghegan, Laura Flanders, Our Readers and Laura Ross

Antifeminists Hit Iraq (Bush Administration, Gender Issues, Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation, Politics, Society)

As the right wing's antifeminist front, the sisters of the Independent Women's Forum have been such a hit in this country that they're now getting taxpayer money to take their act on the road.

Laura Flanders and Laura Ross

Beware the Bushwomen (Bush Administration, Political Figures, Presidential Election 2004, Parties, Politics)

This article was adapted from Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso). Check www.lauraflanders.com for book-tour information.

Laura Flanders

From The Archive

Librarians Under Siege (Covert Ops, Regions and Countries)

Focuses on the ability of U.S. federal agents to acquire warrants under the USA Patriot Act to spy on library users. Efforts of librarians to protect reader privacy; Counterintelligence program in the 1970s and 1980s known as the Library Awareness Program; Idea that the monitoring of library use may be illegal.

Laura Flanders