Voters in Maine just repealed a law that legalized gay marriage -- but is
that the issue LGBT people should be organizing around? Maine queer
activist Ryan Conrad says the marriage equality campaign is a distraction
from improving the lives of gay people. He tells why...
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This Old Mole episode is hosted by Denise Morris (pictured here), and
features discussions of how the system limits the actions of Presidents; two
movies about mothers and sons; whether "Hell is other people" (as a line in
Sartre's play No Exit has it); and whether the...
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What keeps us at war -- and without universal healthcare -- is not the moral
failings of politicians but the system within which politicians --
including presidents -- are forced to act. That's the argument of
investigative journalist Russ Baker in this conversation w...
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Our Movie Moles Frann Michel and Jan Haaken give their psychoanalytic take
on two current films dealing with the theme of mothers and sons:
Antichrist, by the Danish director Lars von Trier; and Where the Wild Things
Are, directed by Spike Jonze. Find out here which...
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Tina Loo studies the impact of hydropower projects on native people in
Canada, and here she talks with the Old Mole's Laurie Mercier about how the
techno-perspective of policy makers blinds them to the impacts of their
projects on life in the areas where they are loca...
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How could our cities get rid of cars? What would city life be like
without them? J.H. Crawford writes about these questions, and he talks here
with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about a future of car-free cities.
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In this Well-read Red segment, Clayton Morgareidge reviews some of the
ways our digital activity is recorded and is increasingly being sorted and
reviewed by both industry and government. He asks whether privacy is a
lost cause, and if so, what kind of world would be...
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President Obama is caught between his base wanting withdrawal from
Afghanistan, and his generals, wanting escalation, according to this article
in Rolling Stone by Robert Dreyfus, excerpted and discussed here by Bill
Resnick.
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This show, hosted by Clayton Morgareidge, raises questions about the impact
of dams on native peoples in Canada; how to get automobiles out of our
cities; Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help about black servants in Jackson,
Missississippi in the '60s; is it too late to p...
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Kathryn Stockett's new novel The Help is about a white southern writer
trying to tell the stories of black domestic servants in Jackson,
Mississippi in the 1960s. Our Book Mole Larry Bowlden wrestles with the
problems this poses. For an archive of Larry's reviews,...
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