Government/Politics

The Candidate

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/03/2016 at 12:00am

Produced for: Ubu Hour

The candidate had never run before, and many people didn't take him seriously, and yet he was winning the nomination. Why were so many people voting for him? This radio play mashes up political satire with "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Videodrome." Here's the au... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 9, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this show about desire: the desire of Intersex people to be free of the surgical and moral control of their bodies and the desire of everyone of us to live lives of our own without the shackles of jobs designed to make rich people even richer. H... Read more

What If There Were No Money?

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

In hopes of stimulating the Left's imagination, Clayton Morgareidge imagines a scenario in which a political movement took power on the promise to abolish all forms of money. The question, How, then, would we live? requires us to imagine and create a social world based o... Read more

A World Without Money?

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Suppose there were no such thing as money: a better story for the Left The Left, it appears, has been dealt a heavy blow by the November election and the prospect of four years of Donald Trump, a Republican Congress and Supreme Court. The good news, though, is that... Read more

Psychoanalyzing Right and Left After Trump

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bob Samuels talks with Old Mole Jan Haaken about his new book Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump: Conservatism, Liberalism and Neoliberal Populisms. They discuss why people who feel disempowered turn to authoritarian figures and why Democrats often fai... Read more

Richard Wolff: Trumponomics

Airs at: Tue, 01/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Alternative Radio

Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a visiting professor at the New School in New York. The New York Times calls him “America’s most prominent Marxist economist.” He is the author of numerous boo... Read more

The Dream Under Siege

Airs at: Fri, 01/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Beloved Community

53 years ago, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous speech, "I Have A Dream." What has happened to the dream of a Beloved Community? Host John Shuck speaks with three activists who have a proven track record on social change about King's dream and how ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 9, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Clayton Morgareidge will host this episode of the Old Mole, and we will hear -- Carrie Cantrell and Bill Resnick continue their discussion, focusing today on how recognizing sexual minorities challenges the authority and hierarchy of capitalist society. Joe Clement r... Read more

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Radiozine

Obama Break with Netanyahu's Settler Expansion Too Little, Too Late; Trump and his Cabinet Nominees Pose a Grave Threat to Civil Liberties; Rising ocean temperatures due to climate change are bleaching & killing many of Earths vital coral reefs. Featuring Richard Sil... Read more

The Assassination of Sister Maura

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: Progressive Spirit

Sister Maura Clarke, a Catholic nun and three other women were assassinated by the El Salvadoran government in December 1980. This was a government supported by the United States. What did Sister Maura do that resulted in her violent death? Under the context of Vatican I... Read more