Stories by 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.
Posted on May 18, 2012, Source: The Nation
The “underground” is always with us. For better and often for worse, it’s how marginalized populations tend to survive—often not very well.
Posted on May 4, 2012, Source: GRITtv
We’re a nation whose leaders are pursuing policies that amount to economic “suicide” Chomsky says. But there are glimmers of possibility.
Posted on Apr 16, 2012, Source: The Nation
America's aging population is going to need care in the coming years--Caring Across Generations aims to create millions of good jobs and redefine our relationships to one another.
Posted on Feb 26, 2012, Source: The Nation
Media consolidation narrows the range of channels and views; a few high-profile cable entrepreneurs like Magic Johnson and Sean "Puffy" Combs won't change that.
Posted on Feb 5, 2012, Source: The Nation
To make the deal that saved the auto industry, Treasury demanded concessions from workers and a ban on strikes. Now Obama's bragging that he saved workers.
Posted on Jul 31, 2011, Source: GRITtv
The war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama.
Posted on Jun 29, 2011, Source: The Guardian
Access to justice – like access to elected office, let alone a pundit's perch – is becoming a perk just for the rich and powerful.
Posted on May 5, 2011, Source: GRITtv
At a time when dancing in the streets is accepted as a proper response to the killing of Osama bin Laden, it's ironic to see that support for human rights is still controversial.
Posted on Apr 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Some people have argued that Americans love British royals because we don't have their own real thing. Except we do: corporations are our ruling class.
Posted on Mar 6, 2011, Source: AlterNet
So after all that cash is gone, what are we left with? Not a whole heck of a lot for the rest of us.
Posted on Nov 2, 2010, Source: GRITtv
Journalist Jeremy Scahill talks with Laura Flanders about the U.S.'s failed efforts in Afghanistan.
Posted on Oct 2, 2010, Source: Free Speech TV
Thousands gathered in Washington for a rally this Saturday organized by progressives, to show support for a progressive economic agenda.
Posted on Sep 14, 2010, Source: GRITtv
In this interview, Klein explains how we can channel growing rage in this country and in the world into a true progressive movement.
Posted on Jun 4, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Across the U.S., poor communities are grossly under-served when it comes to education, nutrition, housing and health care.
Posted on Jan 20, 2010, Source: GRITtv
Liliana Segura and Spencer Ackerman ask if this is just more security theater designed to get us to give up our civil liberties, and Mark Green and Malia Lazu on the Mass Election.
Posted on Nov 24, 2009, Source: TheNation.com
A federal district judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers was indeed responsible for part of the devastation in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.
Posted on Nov 23, 2009, Source: GRITtv
THe Air Force veteran, community organizer and immigrants rights activist, joins Laura for an exclusive interview on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ongoing mistreatment of his community.
Posted on Nov 11, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Americans voted for change and are getting frustrated with the lack of it, but our guests have both written about the powerful forces holding the status quo in place.
Posted on Oct 14, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Watch Flanders live with Adam Thompson of the Progressive States Network, Paul Waldman from The American Prospect, and Rep. Raul Grijalva.
Posted on Sep 30, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Underrepresented booming countries may get a bigger voice in global finance. Nice. But under-represented people? They got arrested.
Posted on Aug 13, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Laura Flanders, Jeff Cohen and co. explore and celebrate the origins and success stories of the new, independent media.
Posted on Aug 12, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Abortion Doctor Susan Wicklund discusses the political climate after the death of Dr. George Tiller.
Posted on Aug 10, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Should we be calling this "Blackwatergate"?
Posted on Jul 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
While the media covers Obama, Crowley and Gates making up, sipping beer, the real issue is: Police who abuse power need to be reined in at once.
Posted on Jul 29, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Laura Flanders and others explain why taxing the wealthy might be good for our health.
Posted on Jul 16, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Matt Taibbi and Mike Lux discuss whether Goldman Sachs is a risk taker or a coup maker.
Posted on Jul 14, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Author Sasha Abramsky on why hunger and homelessness receive so little attention.
Posted on Jul 8, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Laura Flanders and Co. discuss whether Congress is willing to make the necessary changes to fundamentally overhaul the health care system.
Posted on Jun 27, 2009, Source: GRITtv
GRITtv tweets the news with John MacArthur, Deanna Zandt, and more.
Posted on Jun 23, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Nomi Prins on whether the Federal Reserve deserves to be split apart.
Posted on Jun 10, 2009, Source: GRITtv
GRITtv looks at Baltimore's suit against Wells Fargo for discriminating against minority consumers.
Posted on Jun 3, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and others talk the dismantling of GM.
Posted on Jun 3, 2009, Source: GRITtv
GRITtv discusses what pro-choice organizations need to do moving forward.
Posted on May 28, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Joel Silberman and The Nation's Richard Kim discuss the implications of the Prop 8 ruling.
Posted on May 27, 2009, Source: GRITtv
A Memorial Day tribute to the tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans who have died in these US wars.
Posted on May 20, 2009, Source: GRITtv
500 workers from the company that made Obama's inaugural suit will lose their jobs if Wells Fargo has its way.
Posted on May 13, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Women, now the primary breadwinners in many American families, still earn 79 cents to every dollar that men earn.
Posted on Apr 29, 2009, Source: GRITtv
Laura Flanders sits down with Bolivia's Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous president.
Posted on Apr 11, 2009, Source: AlterNet
"Go to where the middle is." It's the conventional wisdom -- and it's bunk.
Posted on Apr 7, 2009, Source: GRITtv
GRITtv breaks down Obama's plans for military escalation
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