Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders is the host of The Laura Flanders Show on the Air America Radio network. You can also hear her on Your Call on public radio KALWFM 91.7 in San Francisco and on the Internet. She is the author of Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, an investigation into the women in George W. Bush’s cabinet. Publisher’s Weekly called Flanders’ best-selling book “fierce, funny and intelligent.” The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush, an essay collection compiled by Flanders, appeared in June 2004 from the Feminist Press. Flanders writes regularly for TomPaine.com, The Nation, Ms. magazine and ZNet. Her op-ed pieces have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. Once a regular panelist on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News Watch, and the PBS women’s discussion program To the Contrary, Flanders’ TV appearances include The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, as well as the MSNBC program Donahue and Good Morning America. Flanders was founding director of the Women’s Desk at the media watch group FAIR and for more than ten years, she produced and hosted CounterSpin, FAIR’s nationally syndicated radio program.