Last week, Palestinian-American author, scientist, and activist Susan Abulhawa made national headlines after the Zionist press attempted to tie her online posts criticizing Israel's apartheid and genocide with Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji as part of an attempted smear campaign: Rama had illustrated a short story that was part of a collection Abulhawa helped to compile and edit. In response to the hit-job on Rama, Zohran distanced himself from Abulhawa, calling her posts "reprehensible" and ...
Mar 19, 2026•1 hr 27 min
Scholar of science and technology studies and Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Media Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Anita Say Chan, is back to break down the fight between the Pentagon and Claude A.I., & explain big tech's increasingly obvious and ominous gestures to a techno feudalist future where intelligence is paywalled, human bodies exist to be rented by AI agents, and big tech runs the American military machine. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouT...
Mar 16, 2026•8 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Dr. Annelle Sheline resigned from the State Department under Joe Biden because she refused to be complicit in his administration's genocide . Now a research fellow at the Quincy Institute, she returns to Bad Faith to discuss her latest New Republic piece on Iran, former U.N. Ambassador Samatha Powers being questioned on her genocide denialism, and the likelihood of World War...
Mar 12, 2026•59 min•Season 1Ep. 557
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast They're calling it "age verification" and touting it as a measure to protect children. But, as is the case with most moral panics, the children are a pretext. New laws are being implemented around the globe to require citizens to provide identification to use the internet , meaning anonymity is dying and the risk of being targeted for one's formerly-anonym...
Mar 09, 2026•8 min•Season 1Ep. 556
Political scientist, author of American Exception: Empire & The Deep State, & host of the American Exception podcast returns to Bad Faith with independent researcher focused on diplomatic history, Tonery Rose, to discuss Epstein, Iran Contra, Les Wexner, & th Zionist takeover of the deep state that helped lead to the current war against Iran. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod) . Produced b...
Mar 05, 2026•1 hr 26 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast After four years, the original Trek Chat crew reconvenes to talk about the newest addition to the Star Trek franchise: Starfleet Academy . The show has attracted criticism from Trekkies for being "too woke" and out-of-step with the spirit of Star Trek . But does this critique actually hold up? Comedian & actor Wyatt Cenac returns alongside screenwriter...
Mar 02, 2026•9 min•Season 1Ep. 554
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Washington Congressional candidate & former Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant returns to Bad Faith to give her no-holds-barred assessment of left elected officials as they navigate the Democratic Establishment , to weigh in on the Epstein files -- including Chomsky's involvement --, and to provide a clear blueprint for how the left should resist. She als...
Feb 26, 2026•1 hr 52 min•Season 553Ep. 1
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast It's here! The annual love-on-the-left episode . This week F.D Signifier returns in the wake of publishing what might be his best viral video essay to date to anchor our panel as our married love veteran. He's joined by returning guests but first time love panelists astrologer Isa Nakazawa & former congressional candidate and activist against gun violence Cameron Kasky t...
Feb 19, 2026•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 551
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author, & theologian Chris Hedges returns to Bad Faith to engage in a spirited debate about how to act now that liberal incrementalism has led to incremental fascism . Why does it feel like so much left discourse is explaining why we aren't ready to act: "Insufficient union density, insufficient political consciousnes...
Feb 16, 2026•8 min•Season 1Ep. 550
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University, Dr. CBS, returns to Bad Faith to discuss the contraversy around Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half time performance and the limits of revolutionary art, the increasingly heated Jasmine Crockett/James Talarico Texas Senate primary & what everyone gets wrong about the viability of Black candidates, Trump's "Lion Kin...
Feb 12, 2026•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 549
Founding director of the Critical Theory Workshop and professor at Villanova University Gabriel Rockhill is out with a new book that calls out many of the intellectual fathers of the academic left as insufficiently imperialist and often funded by the CIA. How have we been mislead by the "compatible left" -- a cohort of leftists that support marxism only in theory while inveighing against actually existing socialism? Where do Slavoj Zizek & Noam Chomsky fall in this analysis? How do we identi...
Feb 09, 2026•2 hr 35 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast MintPress News journalist Alan MacLeod returns to Bad Faith to talk us through the latest Epstein file revelations: New links between Epstein & Mossad , race science & Jewish supremacy, celebrity sightings, media influence, right-wing pedophile apologia, & more. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) ...
Feb 05, 2026•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 548
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist from The Grayzone and author of Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire Anya Parampil returns to Bad Faith to discuss the latest developments in Venezuela following the kidnapping of Maduro -- a story that somehow emerged this month but is already out of the headlines. But first, we tackle an insane news week, including the ICE shooting death of Alex Pr...
Feb 02, 2026•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 546
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Gaza Humanitarian Foundation whistleblower and former Green Beret Anthony Aguilar returns to Bad Faith to announce his candidacy to represent North Carolina's 13th Congressional district, where he's running as a Green Party candidate. He answers questions about his military career and addresses concerns about fetishizing military service that were raised d...
Feb 02, 2026•8 min•Season 1Ep. 547
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Canadian physician and author specializing in childhood development & trauma Gabor Maté returns to Bad Faith to discuss the male loneliness epidemic , the despondency endemic to these tumultuous times, and the need for revolutionary optimism . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Inst...
Jan 26, 2026•7 min•Season 1Ep. 545
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast National Legal Director at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and civil liberties defender Jenin Younes joins Bad Faith fresh off her Twitter spat with Vice President J.D. Vance over the ICE shooting of Renée Good and her subsequent appearance on The Daily Show . Jenin explains what it's like to have consistently defended the First Amendment and civil liberties ...
Jan 22, 2026•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 544
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Economist & Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs returns to Bad Faith to discuss the protests in Iran and rising regional tensions, how western warhawks are framing the conflict, and what we should know about the history that led us here . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and I...
Jan 19, 2026•8 min•Season 1Ep. 543
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast BreadTube maven Sabrina Salvati (Sabby Sabs) returns to Bad Faith podcast to discuss the latest developments in the ICE shooting death of Renee Good, how Democrats are already walking back 'abolish ICE" despite polls showing the movement's growing popularity, Zohran Mamdani's first weeks as mayor, and her new documentary on gentrification in Boston. Stick around to the end h...
Jan 15, 2026•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 542
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Founding director of the Critical Theory Workshop and professor at Villanova University Gabriel Rockhill is out with a new book that calls out many of the intellectual fathers of the academic left as insufficiently imperialist and often funded by the CIA . How have we been mislead by the "compatible left" -- a cohort of leftists that support marxism only i...
Jan 12, 2026•8 min•Season 1Ep. 541
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The team from the hilarious and incisive Bad Hasbara podcast, Daniel Maté & Matt Lieb, take a break from calling out Zionist lies to weigh in on how adult circumcision recipient and Bari Weiss' new pick to anchor CBS Evening News Tony Dokoupil embarrassed himself right out of the gate both substantively and aesthetically. We also talk the Venezuela-Israel connection, and...
Jan 08, 2026•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 540
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Breakthrough News journalist Eugene Puryear returns to Bad Faith to discuss Donald Trump's illegal strike on Venezuela and capture of President Nicolas Maduro & his wife . He addresses mainstream media and Democratic Party complicity in supporting Trump's strike, the historical efforts of the US to control Venezuela's oil supply, and the longterm goals...
Jan 05, 2026•8 min•Season 1Ep. 539
Investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg returns to Bad Faith to discuss what Israel's recognition of Somaliland and US strikes on Somalia have to do with the ongoing Gaza genocide and domestic attacks on Somalian Americans. Also, how does Israeli software offer backdoor access to your phone, and did AOC admit force the vote was a good idea? Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod) . Produced by Armand Avira...
Jan 01, 2026•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 538
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Philosopher, author, and co-host of Dystopia Now Émile Torres joins Bad Faith to discuss his coverage of Noam Chomsky & the Epstein files before engaging in a broader conversation about Big Tech titans' emphasis on a dystopian transhumanism that's rooted in eugenics and an unfounded faith in their own genetic superiority. How should the left compete wi...
Dec 29, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 537
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Author and journalist Vijay Prashad returns to Bad Faith initially to discuss Venezuela but gets sidetracked by Briahna's frustration with several media happenings from last week : the Compact article "The Lost Generation" arguing that white millennial men have faced discrimination as a consequence of DEI, and Vivek Ramaswamy's New York Times op/ed that at...
Dec 22, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 536
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Jacobin columnist Branko Marcetic, Green Party Senate candidate and veteran Matthew Hoh, & Current Affairs editor-at-large Yasmin Nair join Bad Faith to discuss the controversies surrounding Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner in light of a new Politico article that dives deep into his background. Branko has written a piece for Jacobin arguing that the press is only te...
Dec 18, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 535
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former FTC commissioner returns to Bad Faith to explain the Netflix/Paramount battle over Warner Brothers, and what media consolidation means for the price of streaming services, censorship, the quality of media content and the future of movie theaters. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfa...
Dec 15, 2025•7 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Twenty-five-year-old Parkland survivor Cameron Kasky joins Bad Faith discuss his run for Jerry Nadler's seat in New York's 12th Congressional district and to weigh in on debates around Zohran's anti-endorsement of Chi Ossé and pre-endorsement of Hakeem Jefferies for Speaker, Jasmine Crockett's Senate run, the male loneliness crisis, and more . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTu...
Dec 11, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 534
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Investigative reporter and NYT bestselling author of The Fort Bragg Cartel Seth Harp joins Bad Faith to discuss the Thanksgiving DC shooting of two members of the National Guard by a CIA-trained Afghan national . The event provides an opportunity to unpack the fallout from Biden's 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, revisit the U.S. military's opium war, and...
Dec 08, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 533
Bronx-based Public defender & DSA organizer Delourny Nemorin recently launched her campaign to unseat Ritchie Torres in New York's 15th district. She weighs in on the rest of the field, including Michael Blake, who is emerging as an establishment-left favorite, why she's running, and the needs of the district. But first, she engages in an extended debate on the value of running to become a Democratic congress member when so many progressives before her seem to have been more changed by the s...
Dec 04, 2025•1 hr 23 min
New York Magazine columnist and longtime knower of Zohran Mamdani, Ross Barkan, returns to Bad Faith alongside first time guest, Palestinian activist and founder of Within our Lifetime Nerdeen Kiswani, to discuss recent controversies around mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani following his historical win in New York. Why did Mamdani weigh in on Chi Ossé's potential primary against Hakeem Jefferies instead of sitting it out? If the DSA is concerned about divided resources, why didhe argue that now is not ...
Dec 01, 2025•8 min
