Laura Flanders

Contributing Writer

@GRITlaura

Laura Flanders is the author of several books, the host of the nationally syndicated public television show (and podcast) The Laura Flanders Show and the recipient of a 2019 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship.

Courage for Immigration Reform Courage for Immigration Reform

 Immigration is shaping up to be one of the next big fights, and it has the potential to be far, far messier—and more violent—than the health care battle.

Mar 26, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Step Toward Justice for Jamie Leigh Jones Step Toward Justice for Jamie Leigh Jones

  Score one for Senator Al Franken. Thanks to him, Jamie Leigh Jones, a former KBR employee who alleges she was gang raped by her coworkers will get her day in court.  

Mar 26, 2010 / Laura Flanders

The Times’ Bias Killed ACORN The Times’ Bias Killed ACORN

  ACORN's closing up shop. Who's to blame?

Mar 25, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Learning From Health Care Reform Learning From Health Care Reform

 What I learned from health care weekend: who gets arrested, who gets media coverage, and who can actually get bills passed.

Mar 23, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Stupak vs. The Nuns Stupak vs. The Nuns

Just how many saved lives does he have to oppose before Stupak's stripped of the term "pro-life" once and for all?

Mar 22, 2010 / Laura Flanders

All The News That’s Fit To Print? All The News That’s Fit To Print?

 Non-news led the news at the Times when Petraeus met the Armed Services Committee.

Mar 19, 2010 / Laura Flanders

The Femivore’s Real Dilemma The Femivore’s Real Dilemma

  Raising chickens isn't the key to feminist liberation. But women's security just might be key to ending hunger.

Mar 18, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Credit Where Due, Geithner Credit Where Due, Geithner

 What Tim Geithner should be getting credit for, it seems to me, is that Lehman Brothers report -- well, not the report, but the cover-up.

Mar 16, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Aren’t We Cheneyed Out Yet? Aren’t We Cheneyed Out Yet?

 At what point do we call them the family of mass intimidation and simply stop playing into the Cheney clan's tired old terror tactics?

Mar 12, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Working Families Still Squeezed Working Families Still Squeezed

 There were grumblings from all corners of the AFL-CIO at its winter meeting in Orlando recently. "Disappointment", "disillusionment", "unengaged&qu...

Mar 9, 2010 / Laura Flanders

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