Laura Flanders is the host of  "RadioNation" heard live, weekends, 7-10 pm ET on the national Air America Radio network. The program is also syndicated to non-commercial affiliates across the United States.

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' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent."

The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush, an essay collection compiled by Flanders, appeared in June, 2004. She's currently working on a new book, "Blue Grit" which profiles progressive victories in these times. It will be published in 2007 by the Penguin Press.

Before joining Air America when it launched in March 2004, Laura hosted the award-winning " Your Call," Monday-Friday, 10-11 am PT, on public radio, KALW, 91.7 fm in San Francisco.

Flanders' TV appearances include "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and "The O'Reilly Factor," as well as "Hannity and Colmes," "Washington Journal," "Donahue," "Good Morning America" and the news discussion program, "CounterSpin," on Canada's CBC network.

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."