Author: Laura Flanders

Annette M. Blackwell, mayor of Maple Heights in Ohio, and her daughter Cyan talk about police brutality and what’s wrong with the justice...

Highlights from the RNC – Jamal Collins, a graphic design instructor, talks about drugs and the rampant housing problem in...

The Nation’s John Nichols talks with Laura about Trump’s takeover of the GOP. He’s a developer; he’s also a demolisher, says Flanders. Look out. @theLFShow...

What is it about Palestine, Islamaphobia, and anti-Arab racism that even many liberal Americans still don’t get? And why hasn’t President Obama ended the abuses of the War on Terror? This week’s guests bring us updates from the grassroots. Fahd Ahmed is the Executive Director of DRUM South Asian Organizing Center; a membership-led organization of low-wage South Asian immigrant workers and youth in New York City. He came to the US as an undocumented immigrant from Pakistan in 1991. Lamis Deek is a human rights attorney and activist originally from Nablus, Palestine. Now based in New York, she has...

At the Laura Flanders Show, we aim to bring politics to a grassroots level. While the 2016 Republican National Convention takes place in Cleveland this week, that level makes us ask: What do the problems and history of this contentious city mean to the GOP? To the high stakes game of presidency, do they mean anything at...