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Laura Flanders

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Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders

Contributing Writer

Contributing writer 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

News and Features

After the 2012 elections, women in Washington have a long to-do list—and it doesn’t stop at reproductive rights.

With a new play, Emotional Creature, and big plans for V-Day 2013, the activist playwright reaches for new heights. 

Una nueva organización une a prestadores y destinatarios de cuidados domiciliarios para personas mayores o discapacitadas, bajo una perspectiva revolucionaria.

A new campaign unites caregivers and care-receivers with a revolutionary vision.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blogs

Neither Republicans nor Democrats treat parenting as work, and thousands of poor women are living in poverty today as living proof of that...
George Zimmerman was behind bars Wednesday, forty-five days after he went free after shooting Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman now faces the...
Housing Advocates have filed a complaint against Wells Fargo, accusing the nation’s largest mortgage lender of failing to maintain...
The country's largest industrial labor union is teaming up with the world’s largest worker-cooperative to put people to work in...
At a time when so many are so clear that the current system is not working—what might? Is it already happening?
Jeff Sachs, who promises he’d lead the World Bank to a new era, proposes more of the same—plus population control. That’s...
Workers shouldn’t “strike and go out and starve, but strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of...
Around the world, a billion people belong to co-ops. The top 300 have combined sales in excess of $1 trillion. That’s according to...
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