Laura Flanders

New York

Contributing Writer at The Nation

Host at The F Word with Laura Flanders

Executive Producer and Host at Laura Flanders & Friends

Host @theLFshow, now @Lfandfriends, TV/radio rabble rouser; author. Weekly, ad-free on tv/radio/youtube https://t.co/CX9j4Rk4LX

Articles

Dean Spade Explains How to Come Together and Raise Hell

2 months ago | thenation.com | Laura Flanders

Activism / Q&A / February 6, 2025 Dean Spade Explains How to Come Together and Raise Hell The activist lawyer speaks to Laura Flanders about his radical self-help book, Love in a F*cked Up World. Dean Spade Explains How to Come Together and Raise Hell The activist lawyer speaks to Laura Flanders about his radical self-help book, “Love in a F*cked Up World.” Ad Policy (Stephen Anunson)Climate, healthcare, human rights, work—we are looking at challenges on every front.
Dean Spade Explains How to Come Together and Raise Hell

2 months ago | thenation.com | Laura Flanders

Q&A / February 6, 2025 Dean Spade Explains How to Come Together and Raise HellThe activist lawyer speaks to Laura Flanders about his radical self-help book, Love in a F*cked Up World. Ad Policy (Stephen Anunson)Climate, healthcare, human rights, work—we are looking at challenges on every front. “And the reality is,” writes lifelong activist Dean Spade, “we’re going to need each other more than ever.” That means that we had better get our interpersonal house in order.
Claud Cockburn’s Legacy of Guerrilla Journalism

Dec 26, 2024 | thenation.com | Laura Flanders

Independent journalism relies on your support With a hostile incoming administration, a massive infrastructure of courts and judges waiting to turn “freedom of speech” into a nostalgic memory, and legacy newsrooms rapidly abandoning their responsibility to produce accurate, fact-based reporting, independent media has its work cut out for itself.
The Far Right’s Plot Against Workers

Oct 15, 2024 | thenation.com | Laura Flanders |Maximillian Alvarez

Maximillian Alvarez: If Project 2025 was implemented today, what would that mean for unions and union workers, especially in the public sector? James Goodwin: We’d have no room for unions. More explicitly it talks about increasing oversight of unions, regulating them more stringently even as we deregulate employers.
Why is our so-called democratic society suppressing freedom of speech?

Sep 12, 2024 | msn.com | Laura Flanders

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Why is our so-called democratic society suppressing freedom of speech? | Laura Flanders

Sep 12, 2024 | theguardian.com | Laura Flanders

Claud Cockburn, my grandfather, knew when it was time to leave Berlin. A young British journalist, he’d worked as a correspondent for The [London] Times in that city in the 1920s before transferring to New York and Washington DC. Returning to Germany in July 1932, he saw “storm Troopers slashing and smashing up and down the Kurfüerstendamm”, and war propaganda: “huge exhibitions of ‘the Front’, soldier figures standing in a real-life size trench playing with a dummy machine gun”, he wrote.
Why Black Voter Turnout Is Dropping in Wisconsin

Sep 9, 2024 | thenation.com | Laura Flanders

Activism / Q&A / September 9, 2024 Why Black Voter Turnout Is Dropping in Wisconsin Author Malaika Jabali tells Laura Flanders why simmering frustration could even shift some Black voters in Wisconsin to Trump. Ad Policy (Provided)Wisconsin is a crucial swing state again in this election year, and both parties are vying to claim the attention of voters.
What Is Political Violence?

Aug 16, 2024 | thenation.com | Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders: When we talk about political violence, what are we actually talking about? Maria J. Stephan: Political violence includes threats, intimidation, acts of physical violence that are used with a political motivation to achieve a political goal or to assert political power over another group. We know that in the United States the preponderance of acts of political violence are being committed by the far right with a smaller number of incidents being committed by the far left.
Is 2024 the Year of Trust-Busting?

May 28, 2024 | thenation.com | Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders: Should we who care about breaking up enormous monopolies be celebrating? Stacy Mitchell: I think we should feel very excited. We have seen a real sea change in how people think about these issues and in what government is currently doing. It’s hard to say where the future is going, but I don’t think we’re going backwards.
Full Conversation- Trust-Busting in 2024: A Bipartisan Battle Against Monopoly | Laura Flanders & Friends (formerly The Laura Flanders Show)

May 14, 2024 | patreon.com | Laura Flanders

While our weekly shows are edited to time for broadcast, we offer to our members and podcast subscribers the full uncut conversation. The following is from our episode "Trust-Busting 2024: A Bipartisan Battle Against Monopoly Power" where we look at the actions underway to tackle the problem of monopolies and the detrimental impact the concentration of power in this way can have on consumers, workers and the democratic project.