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THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW is back with more award-winning interviews and investigative reporting on the people and movements driving positive systemic change in our world today. The show features forward-thinking people from actress Sheryl Lee Ralph to author Naomi Klein and innovative projects as well as a monthly journalists' round table with journalists of color. It's produced in rural New York.

Decades after Katrina, Louisiana is weathering a new storm: the petrochemical industry.
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor discuss their revelatory essay on "End Times Fascism."
Mahmoud Khalil examines why the question of Palestine is a test for U.S. democracy.
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Award-winning journalists examine the media’s reporting on detention, rendition and more.
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The Newark, New Jersey mayor discusses his arrest and gubernatorial campaign.
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Decades after Katrina, Louisiana is weathering a new storm: the petrochemical industry.
Kimberlé Crenshaw sounds the alarm on bias in our legal system and new SCOTUS rulings.
Robert Reich unpacks two bullies to democracy: concentrated wealth and corporate power.
Civil rights attorneys speak out against threats to fair housing and the American people.
Mahmoud Khalil examines why the question of Palestine is a test for U.S. democracy.
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BIPOC media cover people, places & perspectives beyond the conventional enclaves of power.
Angela Davis talks Palestine, elections, our carceral state and collective liberation.
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How can reformers counter the rhetoric around crime and migration to advance alternatives?
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Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party discusses the 2024 presidential election.
As the RNC comes to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, what’s in it for Black Midwesterners?
In Los Angeles, a struggle is being waged over the future of policing and incarceration.
How do we end political violence, protect one another and democracy itself?
Amanda Seales has lost agents and her publicist over her support for Palestine.
Who are the targets of disinformation and why?
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