Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Renowned talk show host Tavis Smiley, formerly of BET Tonight & NPR's The Tavis Smiley Show , joins Bad Faith to give a firsthand account of the Democratic Party's attempt to bias his recent interview with Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein. Smiley provides new details as to the nature of the email from a Democratic Party affiliate who attempted to feed Smiley...
Oct 31, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 419
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Palestinian-American activist, legal scholar, and human rights attorney Noura Erakat joins Bad Faith in a must-listen episode on the strategic benefits limits of the law in stopping a genocide, how to leverage electoral power to end U.S. aid to Israel, and why she isn't voting for Kamala Harris. Noura also weighs in for the first time on why she declined ...
Oct 28, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 418
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Political economist David Fields joins Bad Faith for a conversation that goes beyond housing policy to unpack the very roots of why the Democratic Party seems unable to provide basic improvements for working people -- even when they're in power. He clarifies the YIMBY vs. NIMBY debate, how YIMBYism has been appropriated by corporate developers, and how false economic narrati...
Oct 24, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 417
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Political scientist Aaron Good joins Bad Faith to discuss the deep state and his book " American Exception: Hegemony and the Tripartite State, " in which he examines the relationship between the state, elite criminality, and U.S. hegemony . What is the "deep state," how has that term been misappropriated by the right, and how is the power of the deep stat...
Oct 21, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 416
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Attorney, writer, and podcast host Esha K. joins Bad Faith for a deep dive into how the US government has used culture to surreptitiously influence the politics of Americans . From funding art styles through patronage at major museums to consulting on action movies to recruiting artists to do worldwide tours showcasing American "equality," the government's interest in influe...
Oct 17, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 415
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Catherine Liu wrote the definitive case against the Professional Managerial Class -- a group of elite wage workers who tend to dominate media, politics, and other leadership positions due to their educational attainment and other class signifiers that set them apart from the rest of the working class. She has identified the PMC as a key obstacle to achiev...
Oct 14, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 414
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast From time to time there's an interview that fundamentally alters and enriches my understanding of how the world works. This is one of them. Professor of Economics at Denison University Fadhel Kaboub returns to Bad Faith to explain how developing Africa may be the key to the climate crisis as well as to the prosperity of a billion comrades on the continent -- but significant ...
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 413
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Independent UK journalist Richard Medhurst joins Bad Faith to reflect on the one year anniversary of October 7th . Medhurst has been one of the bravest and boldest advocates for Palestine over the last year, and was arrested under UK terror laws. He discusses his experience, his predictions for the next year of conflict, and how we got here: One year into...
Oct 07, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 412
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast UC Santa Barbara Professor and 2024 Green Party Vice Presidential nominee Dr. Butch Ware joins Bad Faith for an extensive conversation that includes behind-the-scenes insights into his viral interview on the Breakfast Club , why Ta-Nehisi Coates' CBS interview on Palestine has made such a splash, and how the Green Party plans to grow and win beyond the current campaign cycle...
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 411
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Wayne University scholar Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly -- better known as Dr. CBS -- returns to Bad Faith two years after offering up her predictions on what at 2024 Kamala run would look like . She offers her perspective on Kamala endorsements from the radical Black left, Jill Stein and Butch Ware's viral performance on The Breakfast Club , Ta-Nehisi Coates...
Sep 30, 2024•7 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Stephen Semler , Co-Founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI), a think tank that develops policies for the working class, returns to Bad Faith to talk about the latest bombshell from ProPublica , which revealed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken lied to Congress about Israel blocking aid to Gaza in order to avoid a disruption to the shipment of US weapons to...
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 409
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist Julia Doubleday joins Bad Faith to interrogate whether inconsistencies exist between the left’s commitment to universal healthcare and our willingness to criticize Democrats on a range of public safety failures, and the indifference from some on the left to the Biden administration’s declaration that Covid is "over" — even as multiple refinfect...
Sep 23, 2024•6 min•Season 1Ep. 408
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Middle Eastern history expert Dr. Assal Rad joins Bad Faith to talk about how international law, the Uncommited movement, and the fourth estate are failing to impose accountability on Israel as it escalates violence in the region . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod) . Produced by ...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 407
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former Socialist Seattle City Councilmember and founder of Workers Strike Back Kshama Sawant joins Bad Faith to download about the Harris/Trump debate and to provide a "fact check" on the Gaza misinformation included therein. Kshama also discusses the killing of American demonstrator Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, whom Kshama knew personally from her engagement in le...
Sep 16, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 406
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The labor organizer who led workers at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse to the first labor victory in the US against Amazon Christian Smalls returns to Bad Faith to discuss 2024 and labor's role in manufacturing consent for corporate candidates. The Amazon Labor Union co-founder weighs in on the claim that Biden-Harris has been the most "pro-union" administration of our li...
Sep 12, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 405
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Duke Professor of Public Policy, Economics, & African American Studies William Darity Jr. is probably the most cited scholar on the issue of the racial wealth gap and reparations. So what does he make of Kamala's agenda for Black America and the state of reparations discourse, post-2020? With more and more Arab and Muslim voters threatening to withhold th...
Sep 09, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 404
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Host of Sabby Sabs Sabrina Salvati returns to Bad Faith to break down AOC's very bad faith attack on Jill Stein and discuss the Democratic Party's ramped-up attacks on Greens in the wake of a disasterous-for-Kamala poll showing Muslim voters are looking to Stein as an alternative . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfa...
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 403
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Vincent Bevins joins Bad Faith to discuss how to turn protests into revolutionary change . In If We Burn he analyzes over a dozen movements from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street to the protests in Hong Kong and Brazil to establish the conditions that creat...
Sep 02, 2024•8 min
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist, Bernie 2020 speechwriter, and founder of The Lever David Sirota joins Bad Faith to talk his new podcast series Master Plan , which tracks the roots of American corruption from the infamous 70s era Powell memo to our present day. We discuss the DNC, Chris Cuomo's newfound interest in the corrupting power of money in politics, & Kamala's price capping plan along wi...
Aug 29, 2024•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 401
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Last week, most eyes were glued to the Democratic National Convention programing: The Lil Jon roll call, AOC proclaiming that Harris is working "tirelessly" for a ceasefire, JB Pritzker bragging that he is a better billionaire than Trump, and Harris proclaiming hers will be the most "lethal" military ever . But the Green Party also had its own nominating ...
Aug 26, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 400
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Consumer advocate, former Green Party presidential candidate, & author Ralph Nader returns to Bad Faith to cut through the media gaslighting about Harris "fighting tirelessly" for a ceasefire and to respond to an online-left that has been successfully wooed by "vibes" to embrace Kamala despite her commitment to providing arms to a genocidal state . Subscribe to Bad Faith on ...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 399
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Dr. Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute returns to Bad Faith to explain how Israel's assassination of Hamas' top ceasefire negotiator Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran reflects Israel's lack of good faith and threatens a broader regional war. Why does Israel want war with Iran, and what are the current risks of escalation in the region? Also, what should we make o...
Aug 19, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 398
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 returns to Bad Faith to help decipher Kamala Harris’ economic policy . Having dodged interviews and eschewed policy proposals, we’re left reading the tea leaves — analyzing who she’s surrounded herself with, and what her surrogates have been saying on CNBC and beyond. What does it mean that her brother-in-law, Uber’s chie...
Aug 15, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 397
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Historian, author, journalist, and Marxist intellectual Vijay Prashad returns to Bad Faith to talk progressives for Kamala , the Tim Walz pick, Cori Bush’s ouster, & what lessons global movements -- including recent student protests in Bangladesh -- hold for the American left . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad F...
Aug 12, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 396
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The Abandon Biden movement was created to leverage votes to secure a ceasefire or, alternatively, punish Biden for failing to move on that issue. What does the Abandon Biden movement do now that Biden is no longer on the ticket ? Head of communications Ahmad Hudhayfah joins Bad Faith to discuss the movement's attitude to Kamala Harris, its current demands, and what he makes ...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 393
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma and critical care physician who volunteered at the Gaza European Hospital near Khan Yunis earlier this spring. Last month, he and a fellow volunteer wrote an op-ed in Politico detailing their experience . Somehow, despite the unspeakable images out of Gaza we’ve all been watching for the better part of a year, their account m...
Aug 05, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 395
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Status Coup News ' Jordan Chariton returns to Bad Faith to provide an update on the toxic fallout from the East Palestine train derailment and report on how residents on the ground are souring on their senator, JD Vance . Vance once championed the people of East Palestine, but he has failed to follow up on new revelations that the crisis was mismanaged. Does his inclusion on...
Aug 01, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 394
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The Abandon Biden movement was created to leverage votes to secure a ceasefire or, alternatively, punish Biden for failing to move on that issue . What does the Abandon Biden movement do now that Biden is no longer on the ticket? Head of communications Ahmad Hudhayfah joins Bad Faith to discuss the movement's attitude to Kamala Harris, its current demands...
Jul 29, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 393
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Civil rights attorney, former public defender, and founder of Civil Rights Corps Alec Karakatsanis joins Bad Faith to discuss his latest article exposing the massive disinformation campaign around police body cameras that has led liberals to embrace surveillance technology as a progressive reform . Alec explains the evidence that exposes the true purpose of body cameras, and...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 392
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former Seattle City Council member, socialist, & co-founder of Workers Strike Back Kshama Sawant returns to Bad Faith for an important conversation about where the left's focus should be during what is shaping up to be one of the most tumultuous electoral seasons in American history . AOC, Bernie, and almost all progressive electeds threw their support be...
Jul 22, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 391
