Laura Flanders is the host of "RadioNation" heard on Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial affiliates nationwide.
She is the author most recently, of Blue Grit: Making Impossible,
Improbable and Inspirational Political Change in America (Penguin,
2008) and BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an
investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Publisher's
Weekly called Flanders' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and
intelligent."
She wrote on Hillary Clinton in The Contenders (Seven Stories Press,
2007) and edited The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush, in
2004 for the Feminist Press.
Before joining Air America when it launched in March 2004, Laura
hosted the award-winning " Your Call," Monday-Friday, on public radio,
KALW, 91.7 fm in San Francisco.
Flanders' TV appearances include "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and " Larry
King Live " on CNN as well as "The O'Reilly Factor," and "Hannity and
Colmes," (FOX News) "Washington Journal," "Donahue," "Good Morning
America" and the CBC news discussion program, "CounterSpin."
Her writing appears in The Nation, Alternet, Ms. Magazine, and
elsewhere and her op-ed pieces have appeared in papers including The
San Francisco Chronicle.
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.
Shie is also the author of Real Majority, Media Minority; the Cost
of Sidelining Women in Reporting (Common Courage Press, 1997) about
which Susan Faludi wrote, "If only there were a hundred of her." Katha
Pollitt called it "Funny, angry, factfilled and brilliant."