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 t his 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 la...
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. Alec...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 466
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his 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 hu...
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 t his 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 h...
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 t his 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 ha...
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 t his 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 Palestin...
Mar 24, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 459
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Status Coup founder and author of We The Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans Jordan Chariton returns to Bad Faith to unpack Trump's obsession with making Canada the 51st state and its connection with Jordan's long-term reporting on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. It's a resource issue: The water wars are here. Subscr...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 458
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Columbia grad student Layla S. , whom you may know from the highly informative Twitter account @ itslaylas , joins Bad Faith to talk about the government kidnapping of her friend and Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil , and ICE's deportation threats against two other pro-Palestine student protesters: Ranjani Srinivasan, who self-deported, and Leqaa ...
Mar 17, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 457
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Following Brie's explosive interview with former Rep. Jamaal Bowman about Force The Vote and the usefulness of The Squad, socialist former Seattle City Councilmember and founder of independent movement organization Workers Strike Back Kshama Sawant returns to Bad Faith to offer her rebuttal to the "inside/outside" strategy for moving the country left . As part of the adversa...
Mar 13, 2025•2 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 456
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former U.S. Representtive Jamaal Bowman makes his first appearance on Bad Faith to talk about the future of the Democratic Party and whether he still has faith in an inside/outside strategy after AIPAC spent an unprecedented sum of millions to unseat him last year. Brie and Bowman debate the merits of Force The Vote, whether FTV activists had "no plan," a...
Mar 10, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 455
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Israeli-American author and activist Miko Peled returns to Bad Faith to discuss the Palestinian documentary No Other Land 's Oscar win , to break down Bill Maher’s mind-numbing analysis of the Israeli occupation on Pod Save America , and to provide updates on the ongoing genocide. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfai...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 454
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Author and staff writer at The Atlantic Thomas Chatterton Williams returns to Bad Faith to discuss his controversial piece calling out conservatives for indulging in the kind of strict linguistic orthodoxy (see: "Gulf of America") and curtailment of speech they've long accused liberals of indulging in. He and Briahna discuss backlash from former wokescold...
Mar 03, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 453
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Can a DSA candidate running on free buses, free childcare, and a freeze on rent become mayor of New York City ? Polling first among declared candidates, N.Y. State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani is no symbolic candidate. He's has a strategy to win and a commitment to left principles that has even disgruntled lefties like Brie saying things like "he's the real deal." In this ...
Feb 26, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 452
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast MintPress News reporter Alan MacLeod returns to Bad Faith to tell the story of how Elon Musk was mentored by his CIA handler to become the ultimate insider: a defense contractor for the US government who is now involved in a project to double the number of nuclear bombs in existence, and build an "iron dome" for America which would end the era of "mutuall...
Feb 24, 2025•7 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Lawyer and Executive Director for Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) Sarah Leah Whitson returns to Bad Faith for an update on the genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza , the culpability of regional Arab leadership, and Trump's latest real estate ambitions. Briahna and Sarah also debate how the Democratic Party lost to Trump and whether a focus on certain social...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 450
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This year's annual Valentine's Day episode features an all-comedian panel . Kate Willett and Katie Haper return to the pod, joined by one of Brie's favorite comedians: Gianmarco Soresi . This year, we dig into post-October 7th dating, religion, and the controversial DSA dating event Thots and Trots . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this epi...
Feb 17, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 449
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast 2024 Green Party VP candidate and University of California, Santa Barbara professor Butch Ware returns to Bad Faith to discuss his run for governor of California and concretely evaluate what it takes for third parties to win big against the two party duopoly. But first, the historian offers his analysis of the Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl halftime show, and whether it was genui...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 448
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Screenwriter Josh Olson returns to Bad Faith with Champagne Sharks host Trevor Beaulieu to preview their new culture podcast The White Canon , in which they break down movies that are near-universally loved among white viewers but relatively unknown among Black ones. The duo then get into a deep dive into the latest press from Matt Yglesias and the Democr...
Feb 10, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 447
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former candidate for DNC chair Marianne Williamson joins Bad Faith along with Our Revolution Chair Joseph Geevarghese to give their take on recently-elected chair Ken Martin, and whether the Democratic Party is taking any accountability for their 2024 electoral failure . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and...
Feb 06, 2025•2 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 446
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Sometimes there's an interview that brings radical clarity about the current moment. Professor Anita Say Chan 's book Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech & Our Fight for an Independent Future ties Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the tech billionaires empowered under Trump to eugenics movement of the 19th and 20th centuries with chilling specificity . She off...
Feb 03, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 445
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Executive Editor of The American Prospect David Dayen and journalist at The Lever Freddy Brewster have been busy tracking Trump's executive orders . They join Bad Faith to break down what's been happening, how culpable Dems are in not being prepared, and whether the Pod Save America crew is correct in their assessment that Dems are being judged unfairly . Subscribe to Bad Fa...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 444
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Vanity Fair recently published a provocatively-titled piece saying " Chapo Trap House Isn't Going to Save the Democrats ." Comedian and podcaster Jake Flores joins Bad Faith along with Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding communications director Hamid Bendaas for a deep dive on the article, whether the trajectory of one of the left's most popular po...
Jan 27, 2025•6 min•Season 1Ep. 443
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Just days after they were both forcibly removed from Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken's final press conference , independent journalists Sam Husseini & Max Blumenthal joined Bad Faith to discuss their respective strategies for how to make the most out of Blinken's last presser before Trump took power, what the corporate media's reaction means about the current state o...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 442
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Two top leftist TikTokers Jessica Burbank & James Li join Bad Faith to offer their perspective on the app's potential ban , the RedNote phenomenon, whether the left is too sanguine about Chinese censorship, and what makes TikTok, well, tick . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagra...
Jan 20, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 441
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast What's next for labor under Trump? Biden's reputation as the most pro-union President in a generation took a hit with his opposition to the railroad strike a year ago and was further diminished following recent reporting that Kamala Harris dismissed Teamsters president Sean O'Brien saying, " I'll win with or without you ." The Democrats' procedural bungle also resulted in th...
Jan 16, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 440
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Independent journalist and producer of the documentary film Pistachio Wars Yasha Levine joins Bad Faith to discuss the billionaire couple that owns most of the water in California & how poor resource management has affected the devastating L.A. wildfires, before jumping into wider-ranging conversation on the state of left politics in the wake of the Berni...
Jan 13, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 439
