The Laura Flanders Show
Hosted by Laura Flanders · Laura Flanders, Curious Communications
4.9from 156 ratings
- 925
- Episodes
- 265
- Transcribed
- 156
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 10M
- YouTube views
About The Laura Flanders Show
Uncensored history meets bold voices with Laura Flanders, award winning journalist and author. The show explores actionable models for creating a better world by reporting on the people and movements driving systemic change. We spotlight the solutions of tomorrow, today. The show airs on PBS stations in over 300 US markets, and airs on 60+ community radio stations via PRX Exchange and Pacifica, and is available on YouTube and here as a podcast. Subscribers receive lots of video and audio web exclusives in addition to the weekly episode. Recent field reports and specials include: Jimmy Carter; 60th Anniversary of Selma Bloody Sunday March; Bernie Sanders' Fighting Oligarchy; Labor Movement vs. Fascism: Worker Organizers & Teachers Under Attack; And interviewee highlights include Award Winning Actor, Director, Writer, Liev Schreiber on his documentary "Meeting Zelensky"; Award winning journalists Maria Hinojosa (Award Winning Suave Podcast and host of Latino USA) & Chenjerai Kumanyika (Award Winning Podcast Series Empire City) on Forced Removals, Foreign Detention, the War on Education & Free Speech; Democracy & Capitalism: A Failed Experiment? with Bloomberg Economist & host of Truponomics, Stephanie Flanders; Masha Gessen & Jason Stanley on fascism then and now; Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on the arc of history and “End Times Fascism”; Congressman Jamie Raskin on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, DOGE, and congressional oversight of the executive branch."
- Publisher
- Laura Flanders, Curious Communications
- Category
- arts · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Jan 2015
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
265 of 925 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A.M. Homes', The Unfolding of an American Democracy - absent any consensus on what is real and true, all bets are sort of off [episode cut]
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A.M. Homes', The Unfolding of an American Democracy [full uncut conversation]]
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Kim Stanley Robinson: how we can all imagine change and work to preserve our planet [episode cut]
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A.M. Homes', The Unfolding of an American Democracy - absent any consensus on what is real and true, all bets are sort of off [episode cut]
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The question of what do you do with free speech when it is being used to create propaganda and to lie, I think hopefully there can be a system of fact checking. Hopefully social media outlets can be held in some way accountable. You know, then the question is, well, is it OK to disseminate that? And in theory, you would say, yes, if you really believe in free speech. Unfortunately, yes. But I think that also one has to sort of try to have enough sort of footnotes to kind of annotate where did this come from? I think that to me is more important in sort of thinking, what is the evolution of this idea? […]
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- AM Homes
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Joy Harjo
- Bryce Covert
- Sharone R Mitchell Jr
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- YouTube views
- 10,239,314
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 143 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 13 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 96
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Laura Flanders host the show. Published by Laura Flanders, Curious Communications.
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