Lives and works in New York, NY.
Laura Flanders is the host of The Laura Flanders Show, coming to public television stations across the nation in the fall of 2011. She was the host and founder of GRITtv, a nationally syndicated daily program on Free Speech TV, and the host of The Laura Flanders Show and RadioNation on Air America Radio. Flanders is also the author of the New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and she is the editor of At the Tea Party: The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right…and Why We Should Take it Seriously (OR books, 2010). Flanders writes for The Huffington Post and The Nation and is a regular contributor on MSNBC. She has appeared on shows from Real Time with Bill Maher and The Tavis Smiley Show to Larry King Live and The O’Reilly Factor. On Twitter, she’s @GRITlaura.
