Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Bernie 2020 speechwriter and founder of The Lever David Sirota returns to Bad Faith to confront a quickly emerging consensus among centrist politicos: "we were right all along." Now that the energy is behind a charming Socialist mayoral candidate, the Pod Save bros, Abundance Libs, & MSNBC "progressives" are all rushing to offer explanations for why Zo...
Jun 30, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 487
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Axios National Political Correspondent & co-author of Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again with Jake Tapper Alex Thompson joins Bad Faith to discuss the backlash around his book detailing the Biden administration's coverup of the President's declining health and cognitive ability. Alex takes hard questions about Ta...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 486
The first victim of Andrew Cuomo's serial harassment to come forward, former aide to the Governor Lindsey Boylan, takes a break from canvassing to join Bad Faith to remind the audience why no one should rank Cuomo. She explains why the Democratic Party has a crisis of credibility as a consequence of selectively weaponizing the #metoo movement for political ends, and Briahna shares her own tale of workplace harassment. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on...
Jun 24, 2025•37 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist & author of CUOMO: Return of the Dark Prince Ross Barkan returns to Bad Faith to discuss with Brie his tight coverage of the New York City mayoral race. Barkan worked closely with socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani back when Zohran managed Ross' 2017 State Senate campaign, and he can offer unique insight into how Mamdani has managed to surge...
Jun 23, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 484
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Professor of African-American Studies, scholar of political economy and historical sociology, and author of Black Scare / Red Scare : Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States Charisse Burden-Stelly returns to Bad Faith to discuss the No Kings protests , the media backlash to the L.A. protests, the new Red Scare, and what history tells us about how to fight back. She...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 483
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist Abby Martin returns to Bad Faith to discuss Israel's bombing of Iran, the hypocrisy of the "antiwar" Trump right receiving pushback from the Tucker Carlson wing of the party, Zohran's NYC mayoral debate performance & what his possible victory means for the left, & Trump's military parade. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of th...
Jun 16, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 482
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Craig Mokhiber , international human rights law specialist who stepped down from his post as director of the New York office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights after October 7th, returns to Bad Faith to discuss the Rafah massacre in which dozens of Palestinians were killed by the IDF while waiting for aid, the Gaza Tribunal's Sarajevo Conference in which legal sc...
Jun 14, 2025•1 hr 25 min
The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, ended its relationship with noted Brown University economist Glenn Loury after he was critical of Israel's actions in Gaza. The cancelation followed an appearance from fellow Brown professor and Israeli historian Omar Bartov on his podcast, during which Bartov offered an analysis of the Gaza genocide that reflected international consensus on Israeli violations of international law. Professor Loury joins Briahna Joy Gray for a must-watch two hou...
Jun 12, 2025•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 475
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist, comedian, and host of The Bitchuation Room Francesca Fiorentini joins Bad Faith on the heels of breaking news that former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is leaving the Democratic Party because it was too mean to Joe Biden. After recovering from the absurdity of Jean-Pierre’s grift, Briahna and Francesca discuss Fran’s increasing...
Jun 09, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 481
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Author, journalist, & activist Cory Doctorow joins Bad Faith to discuss his latest novel Picks and Shovels , enshittification, the utility of fiction as a vehicle to expose scams and create urgency around political action, and why so many people misunderstand the threat of AI . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith...
Jun 02, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 479
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This abundance panel -- which been weeks in the making -- is well-timed: A new poll shows that voters prefer populist messaging to "abundance" messaging by a significant margin , throwing advocates of Abundance , a new book by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, into a tizzy. So what is "Abundance" anyway, & why has Left Twitter been so antagonistic to the ideology? Are pro...
May 29, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 478
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Political theorist and author of Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies and The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy Benjamin Studebaker returns to Bad Faith with a wakeup call for the left: You've learned nothing from the Bernie 2020/2024 cycles . He criticizes the "Jacobin left" for not recognizing the need to overcome a key divide separating the erstwhile le...
May 26, 2025•9 min•Season 1Ep. 477
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Historian and founder of Palestine Nexus, an educational resource on Palestine, Zachary Foster joins Bad Faith to break down his viral article on the forgotten history of Jewish anti-zionism . By forensically examining the long history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, he disrupts mythology used to justify Israeli oppression of Palestinians in the present. Also, he weighs in ...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 476
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, ended its relationship with noted Brown University economist Glenn Loury after he was critical of Israel's actions in Gaza. The cancelation followed an appearance from fellow Brown professor and Israeli historian Omar Bartov on his podcast, during which Bartov offered an analysis of the Gaza genocide that...
May 19, 2025•9 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Professor of International History at Boston University & author of Globalists: The End of Empire & the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian joins Bad Faith to discuss his latest book Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, & the Capitalism of the Far Right . Slobodian explains the way that neoliberalism hijacks democracy to prioritize capital interests over the subs...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 474
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Revolutionary Blackout Network co-founder Nick Cruse returns to Bad Faith to break down the liberal media meltdown over tepid efforts to push the party left . Not only are establishment politicians and commentators quick to decry the "message" of the AOC/Bernie rallies, David Hogg's efforts to primary old guard Democrats have been met with threats to oust ...
May 12, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 473
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project Matt Stoller returns to Bad Faith to talk Facebook’s anti-trust case, why big tech is pushing AI, the surprising goodness of Trump’s FTC, and whether the worst impacts of Trump’s tariffs are still ahead. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Ins...
May 08, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 472
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast A Brief History of Violence screenwriter & co-host of The Movies that Made Me Josh Olson and Struggle Session co-host Leslie Lee III join the show to discuss the movie everyone's talking about: Ryan Coogler's Jim Crow vampire film Sinners . In a spoiler-filled episode ( you are warned ), the trio debate what the movie is trying to say about race, freed...
May 05, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 471
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Semifor editor-in-chief and former EIC of Buzzfeed News Ben Smith joins Bad Faith to discuss his recent exposé on the private group chats in which tech billionaires like Marc Andreessen & Mark Cuban build consensus and debate ideas with handpicked "smart" men who are ideologically right-of-center -- all hidden from public eyes and public pushback . In theory, these chats...
May 01, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 470
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Co-founder and executive president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Dr. Trita Parsi returns to Bad Faith podcast for an update on Iran, Gaza, and the death of international law . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod) ....
Apr 28, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 469
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Professor of sociology at New York University, theorist, and founder of the journal Catalyst Vivek Chibber joins Bad Faith to debate the course of the left under Trump, the value of entryism, third party politics, and the fatalism that follows from everything being broken. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) a...
Apr 24, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 468
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Last year Annelle Sheline resigned from Biden's State Department in protest of the administration's support for Israel's genocide in Gaza . She returns to Bad Faith podcast to provide new insight into how the State Department routinely deprioritized or flat out ignored reports about human rights abuses so that it would not have to contend with domestic law...
Apr 21, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 467
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Civil rights lawyer and social justice advocate Alec Karatkatsanis returns to Bad Faith to talk about his new book Copaganda: How Police & The Media Manipulate Our News . Alec zeroes in on the liberal media and political sphere to explain the establishment left's role in pushing the mythologies that fund the police , defund social services, and make the world less safe. ...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 466
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast National Co-Director of feminist anti-war group Code Pink Danaka Katovitch joins Bad Faith to discuss Sen. Tom Cotton's attacks on their group and Sen. Jim Banks' allegation that Code Pink is in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act . Since October 7th, establishment politicians have been cracking down on protests. In the wake of April 5th's hug...
Apr 14, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 465
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Leftist economist Fadhel Kaboub returns to Bad Faith to deepen last week's conversation on Tariffs following "Orange Monday." He assesses Elon's discovery of "magic money machines" -- confirming that the government doesn't need to tax to spend, and breaks down what Democrats should (but won't) say to exploit mass frustration with Trump's economic policy. Subscribe to Bad Fai...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 20 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast In a conversation that's immediately so rich Briahna forgets to introduce him, preeminent Gaza scholar, author, and professor Norman Finkelstein addresses how the crusade against wokeness is being weaponized by some, like Columbia Professor John McWhorter, to justify pro-Zionist free speech crackdowns on campus, and whether left-critics of woke excesses ha...
Apr 10, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 463
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Director of Rethink Trade at the American Economic Liberties Project and senior advisor to the Citizens Trade Campaign Lori Wallach joins Bad Faith to explain Trump’s tariff policy from a labor populist perspective. Deeply informative, clear, and principled analysis. A must-listen . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badf...
Apr 03, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 462
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Friend of the show and People's Policy Project wonk Matt Bruenig returns to Bad Faith to give the insider perspective on the lawsuits against health tech CEO Bryan Johnson. You may know Johnson as the guy who used his kid as a "blood bag" (i.e., injected himself with his son's plasma) and who goes to great lengths to "live forever." As it turns out, he has...
Mar 30, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 461
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Grayzone U.K. Chief Investigator and Co-Founder of Active Measures Kit Klarenberg joins Bad Faith to talk about the impact of the new administration on the Ukraine-Russia war, recent developments in the field, and what the ultimate endgame is likely to be. Also, Kit speaks to the authoritarian crackdown on pro-Palestine speech from his personal experience being detained in t...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 460
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on recent developments in Palestine, including Israel's choice to end the ceasefire , the catastrophic Israeli strikes resulting in the death of about 400 Palestinians, nearly half children, the recent U.N. report on Israel's use of sexual violence against Palestini...
Mar 24, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 459
