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F Word – February/March: The Pandering Months

  February/March: The Pandering Months  Here we are again, ending Black History Month, starting Women’s History month. This time, the season coincides with the Democratic primaries. The Democratic Party has no more loyal group of voters...

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...

How the Diversity Industry is Failing and What We Can Do to Fix It

How The Diversity Industry Is Failing And What We Can Do To Fix ItAbout The ShowIn an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of...

Laura to Speak at KPFK Feb 22

KPFK and Random Length News present a KPFK Speaker Series featuring Laura Flanders and Sonali Kolhatkar for a conversation on independent media with special guests Greg Palast and James Preston Allen. It will take...

Laura Flanders at The Hammer Museum with Jane Fonda and Janet Valenzuela

Fire Drill Fridays comes to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. This Sunday, February 23rd at 4pm PST. Actor and activist Jane Fonda recently said: “We are the last generation who can make the difference...

Democracy Vs Dictatorship: Don’t Let Bloomberg Muddy That Choice – F Word

Democracy vs Dictatorship: Don't Let Bloomberg Muddy That Choice  The 2020 presidential race didn’t get decided this week, but the choice before us did: more democracy or less of it. That’s the decision we are...

The Future is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam

From Austria to Chile, Lagos to London, people are demanding policies that democratize economies and keep public resources in public hands. In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have...

Iowa Media Back To The Future – F Word

In the first week of February, every four years, coastal correspondents decamp to Iowa to cover the first-in-the nation nominating contest. Face-to-face, caucus by caucus, what the state lacks in demographics, it makes up...

Touretteshero Does Becket

Touretteshero Does BeckettAbout This EpisodeLaura interviews British comedian and activist Jess Thom about her performance of Samuel Beckett’s play “Not I.” Thom’s work reveals how neurodiversity makes theater, society—everything!—richer. From Public Theater listing:"Jess Thom has Tourettes,...

F Word: Iowa is not the Twitterverse

Iowa is not the Twitterverse It was a balmy 70 degrees in New York City last Saturday, and the excited green croci began tipping through the earth. Now, that same ground is icy, and those...

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