Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with economist John Miller about the tax bill the Republican's are pushing in the Senate. Will it boost the economy? No, says Miller.   John Miller is a professor of economics at Wheaton College and is a writer and editor at Dollars & Sense. ... Read more

Frann Michel talks with Desiree Hellegers about an organizing campaign to push back against planned budget cuts at Washington State University, including to the Vancouver, WA campus. The WSU President's proposal would eliminate theater entirely, cut graduate stipends and... Read more

Mike Snedeker of the Old Mole’s Left and the Law Series interviews Jim Smith, founder of the first immigration law clinic in the country at UC Davis. He now litigates on behalf of Central American refugees who will be killed if sent back to where they came from. They dis... Read more

Tom Becker hosts this week's issue of the Old Mole, and we hear: 1. John Miller of Dollars & Sense discusses the Republican tax plan with Bill Resnick; 2. Desiree Hellegers and Frann Michel explain the budget battle at Washingto State University; 3. Attorneys Mike Snede... Read more

  Desiree Hellegers talks with Cecelia Towner of Black Lives Matter Clark County about #MeToo, racism, and the need for greater resources for women of color in Vancouver fleeing intimate partner violence.   Read more

  Movie Moles Joe and Jan discuss the meanings for current viewers of the representations of family, gender, and capitalism in the 1947 holiday movie Miracle on 34th Street.  image via wikimediacommons   Read more

  Bill Resnick hosts, and we hear  Joshua Holland on how to get to Universal Health Care in the US  Cecelia Towner of BLM on responding to race & gender violence in Clark County Movie Moles on Family, Gender, & Capitalism in Miracle on 34th St (1947) Musical excerpts... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Joshua Holland, who argues that current bills for single payer or Medicare for All are not tactically the best route to universal comprehensive health care for all. His recent article in The Nation lays out his vision.  Photo by Joe Newman.   Read more

Laurie Mercier talks with Christian Appy, professor of history at the Univ. Massachusetts, and author of numerous publications about the Cold War and the American war in Vietnam, including the recent American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. Appy com... Read more

The New York Times reports that “President Trump — or, more likely, Vice President Mike Pence — has filled top positions at the Department of Health and Human Services with individuals who have devoted their adult lifetimes to the anti-abortion cause.”  Here in Oregon, t... Read more