Old Mole Variety Hour for October 12, 2026
In this special Indigenous Peoples Day edition of the Old Mole Variety Hour hosted by Dani Stephens, a student organizer with the Collective...
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Old Mole Variety Hour for October 5, 2026
In the decade of the 2010s, more people took to the streets than in any other time in history. And yet those horizontal protests, often spre...
Old Mole Variety Hour for September 28, 2026
Frann Michel hosts this show, featuring these segments: Left and the Law and Remigration: Less than a year ago, aggressive immigration raids...
Left and the Law: Trump, ICE, deportations
Less than a year ago, aggressive immigration raids in Democratic-led cities were drawing national headlines and sparking protests across the...
Book Mole: Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation; she has dedicated her life to indigenous philosophies and ecological resea...
The Zany Comedy of I Love Boosters
Boots Riley's latest movie, I Love Boosters, is even more zany than his first feature, Sorry to Bother You. Frann Michel recommends it as a...
Old Mole Variety Hour for September 21, 2026
Frann Michel hosts this episode, featuring these segments: A New Policy: Laurie Mercier speaks with Josh Paul, the former US Department of S...
Bad Energy: Joshua Frank on Green Profits
Jan Haaken talks with Joshua Frank about his new book, Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who A...
A New Policy for Defense
Laurie Mercier speaks with Josh Paul, the former US Department of State official who oversaw arms transfer and sales and famously became one...
In Memory of PC Peri
On July 16, 2026, PC Peri (aka Phillip Craig Perry), a founder of the Flying Focus Video Collective and a Portland-based activist videograph...
Remembering Chile's 9-11 and Folksinger Victor Jara
Living in the U.S., you'd never guess that some three decades before the twin towers fell, neoliberalism was ushered into Chile by U.S.-made...
Old Mole Variety Hour for September 14, 2026
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Coming to Terms with Israel and Antisemitism: J...
Coming to Terms with Israel and Anti-Semitism
Coming to Terms with Israel and Anti-Semitism: Jan Haaken talks with Dr. Alissa Hochman about the struggle within the American Psychology As...
Old Mole Variety Hour for September 7, 2026
Jon Nelson hosts this Labor Day Mole with a rebroadcast from Against the Grain: The rise and fall of unemployment, our dependence on the mar...
The Ross Island Fix?
Earlier this year a group of anonymous investors calling themselves Heron Park surfaced a proposal to bury contaminated waste from the Willa...
No to Big Oil
In previous Left & the Law segments, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker have followed lawsuits against Big Oil that have been filed over the past...
Old Mole Variety Hour for August 31, 2026
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes these segments: The Ross Island Fix? Earlier this year a group of anony...
Hope at Dusk: The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism
Jan Haaken talks with Michael Fabricant about his new book, The Struggle for Public Goods in the Shadow of Fascism: Hope at Dusk. Fabricant...
Old Mole Variety Hour for August 24, 2026
This week's show, hosted by Desiree Hellegers, features the following segments: In the Shadow of Fascism: Jan Haaken talks with Michael Fabr...
Investing in Human Rights
Investing in Human Rights: Laurie Mercier speaks with Sally Joughin and Sami Ortoleva with the Oregon for Human Rights Coalition about the c...