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    Armed with Art: Taking Down the Wall of Whiteness

    “It's time to disrupt this wall of whiteness,” says interdisciplinary artist Favianna Rodriguez this week on the LF Show. From BLM and MeToo to colonial violence at the border and on indigenous lands, activist...
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    US Healthcare After Covid: What’s Next & How Could It Be Better?

    The Medicare for All Act was reintroduced into the U.S. House in March with a record number of cosponsors and public support. But while the idea of a public single payer system has never...
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    You Can’t Deal with Capitalism Unless You Deal With Patriarchy

    Achieving social justice is going to take much more than reforming our criminal justice system. Valuing all lives equally is going to require a profound reckoning with every system of “othering” that lies at...
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    Not Everyone’s an A$$Hole: Rutger Bregman on Humankind

    Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humankind can do better. Bregman’s the guy who took down Tucker Carlson...
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    Uncut Interview: Keeana-Yamahtta Taylor

    Laura talks to Princeton Professor and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. This is an uncut interview from The Laura Flanders Show episode Housing as a Human Right. For more information on housing, and to learn more...
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    Housing is a Human Right

    About Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A record level of evictions have created record levels of homelessness at...
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    James Baldwin: Lessons for the US

    About James Baldwin was one of the 20th century’s most incisive thinkers and writers. In our own era, as political rhetoric, state violence, and popular uprising bring racism into stark relief, many Americans have been...
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    Building Public Trust for Public Health

    About Vaccines against Covid-19 were developed at record speed. But getting the public to take them may be an uphill battle. In this episode, Laura interviews three public health experts about the challenges of eradicating...
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    Inauguration 2021: Democracy Demands a Democratic Economy

    About A new administration is taking office in the midst of an unprecedented public health catastrophe and an economic crisis, and in the immediate wake the heels of one of the most polarizing presidencies in...
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    Countering the Coup: From the Grassroots Up

    About In the aftermath of the January 6th siege of the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, Laura convenes a panel of pro-democracy activists to discuss the fate of the nation. What really led...
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