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Kola Nut Timebank: Building Community, One Hour at a Time

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 7/9).What if there was a way to trade time and share skills with your neighbors in...

Trump’s Wall and the End of the American Frontier

In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. They explore...

A.M. Homes: “The Unfolding” of American Democracy

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in...

Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCmJcPkpI98Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? What if more of us did? This week, we visit Mary Miss, a Guggenheim fellow and celebrated artist,...

A.M. Homes’ The Unfolding: On War and Also Walking Away

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform.This summer we learned that the largest-ever political donation — $1.6b in shares of an about-to-be-sold business — was given to a non-profit set...

Rising Against Asian Hate: Turning Violence into Action

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.In March 2021, a 21-year-old man murdered eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three spas...

Looking at the Unbearable with Dr. Gabor Maté & V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Dr. Gabor Maté & V (formerly Eve Ensler) have both experienced personal trauma and turned it into fuel for making social change.

50 Years After Roe, Is Reporting on Abortion Still Too White?

Forty percent of those who get abortion services in the U.S. are African Americans. Would you know it from the media coverage of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe vs Wade? S. Mitra Kalita...

James Baldwin: Lessons for the US

AboutJames 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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Imani Perry: Uncut Interview

For more uncut interviews, subscribe to The Laura Flanders Show podcast or support us on Patreon.As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South...

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