Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Civil rights defense attorneys Michael Bloch and Ben White join Bad Faith to discuss the fatal beating of prisoner Robert Brooks at the Marcy Correctional Facility in New York and a similar case that their law firm Bloch & White is handling. How has advocacy for criminal justice reform changed since the BLM era, and to what extent did Democratic leadership fail the moment? I...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 438
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast BreakThrough News journalist Eugene Puryear returns to Bad Faith to talk left opportunities under the Trump administration and respond to Pod Save America 's insane 2028 presidential draft picks: A liberal fever dream and a lefty nightmare . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram...
Jan 06, 2025•7 min•Season 1Ep. 437
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week Brie is joined by a stacked panel of journalists -- Irami Osei-Frimpong , Q Anthony Ali , & Zaid Jilani -- to discuss the new divide on the right that emerged after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy defended the use of H1-B visas to import labor from India for tech jobs . Conservative opponents of these visa recipients find themselves making populist arguments decrying...
Jan 02, 2025•2 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 436
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Senior staff writer at MintPress News Alan MacLeod joins Bad Faith to discuss an explosive report on the huge number of former Israeli intelligence officers currently working in U.S. media & tech, and how they influence U.S. news coverage of Israel's occupation of Palestine . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on T...
Dec 30, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 435
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Academic, author, & ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson joins Bad Faith to debate the merits of voting for Kamala Harris specifically -- and Democrats more broadly -- as increasing numbers of the party membership acknowledge that they require significant reform after their 2024 electoral defeat. Are those claiming that "Bernie would have won" in 2016 and 2020 right? Or is t...
Dec 27, 2024•2 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 424
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former Ohio State Senator and Bernie 2020 National Co-Chair Nina Turner returns to Bad Faith to discuss AOC's failure to capture the ranking chair of the House Oversight committee , and what the elected left's recent failures say about the "inside" strategy advanced by so much of the left in the wake of the Bernie 2020 campaign. Years after Force the Vote...
Dec 23, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 434
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist and host of " Dispatches " at Breakthrough News Rania Khalek returns to Bad Faith to give a comprehensive rundown of the history that led to the ousting of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad , explain how the West is rehabilitating former al-Qaeda member Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as a moderate, & discuss the implications for Israel's expansionist goals in the region. S...
Dec 19, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 433
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Princeton Professor and Civil War-era historian Matt Karp returns to Bad Faith to discuss how a third party won the White House by fighting for the ethical issue of the time : Slavery. How did Republicans break the duopoly to become a major party, and what lessons can the contemporary left learn from a historical example of a successful American third par...
Dec 16, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 432
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of System Update Glenn Greenwald returns to Bad Faith to discuss the health insurance debate -- and public thirst -- that's arisen around alleged United Healthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione and the acquittal of Daniel Penny in the choking death of homeless subway rider Jordan Neely. Glenn also talks Assad's fall in Syria and addres...
Dec 12, 2024•2 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 431
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Current Affairs editor-in-chief and co-author with Noam Chomsky of new book The Myth of American Idealism Nathan J. Robinson returns to Bad Faith to discuss his latest takedown piece -- this time of Slow Boring centrist writer Matthew Yglesias. But first, Nathan addresses taking heat for his take on health insurance CEO Brian Thompson's assassination, & B...
Dec 09, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 430
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Economics professor Rob Larson joins Bad Faith to discuss how the ruling class have turned an ostensible Democracy into an oligarchy , and what to do about it. How unequal are America and the world really, and will anything short of expropriation cure a system so broken, that at least one American has taken to vigilante justice ? Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video o...
Dec 05, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 429
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Debt Collective spokesperson Braxton Brewington joins Bad Faith to unpack what Biden could still do to alleviate student debt, and what the student loan fight looks like going into a second Trump administration . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod) . Produced by...
Dec 02, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 428
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Staff writer at Arizona Luminaria John Washington returns to Bad Faith to talk about what changes the incoming Trump administration will bring to US immigration policy , his thoughts on the Democratic Party's (and Kamala Harris') right-tilt on immigration, and how a populist, worker-centered left should address labor concerns related to a growing immigrant population . Subsc...
Nov 28, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 427
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast 2024 Green Party Presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein returns to Bad Faith for a two-hour breakdown of what really happened on Election Day . She addresses the gap between the CAIR poll estimates of the Green Party vote and the actual results, our country's inability to conduct ballot tracking, and whether the party will pursue a recount as they did in 201...
Nov 25, 2024•7 min•Season 1Ep. 426
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Investigative journalist & author of One Nation Under Blackmail Whitney Webb joins Bad Faith to talk about the recent Trump cabinet picks, the dominant role tech CEOs & the deep state are playing in American "democracy," Jeffery Epstein and Israel's grip on American politics and more. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of subjects deemed too conspiratorial for the mainstream ...
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 425
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Academic, author, & ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson joins Bad Faith to debate the merits of voting for Kamala Harris specifically -- and Democrats more broadly -- as increasing numbers of the party membership acknowledge that they require significant reform after their 2024 electoral defeat. Are those claiming that "Bernie would have won" in 2016 and...
Nov 18, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 424
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and ordained minister Chris Hedges returns to Bad Fatih for a left-focused deep dive into what happened on election night, what's next for the left, and the role spirituality may play in creating a sense of community that some currently find in the Joe Rogan media environment . Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Fin...
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 423
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast National Spokesperson for the Uncommitted campaign Hudhayfah Ahmad returns to Bad Faith along with independent journalist and founder of votepact.org Sam Husseini to address the recent controversy surrounding Middle East Eye 's report that the Uncommitted campaign effectively "committed" itself to a narrow range of political action after it accepted $400,...
Nov 11, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 422
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast So, Trump won. And we've assembled some of my favorite leftists to unpack why. Host of the Katie Halper Show and co-host of Useful Idiots Katie Halper weighs in on the left's predictions about the impact Gaza might have on this election and takes down the mainstream media narratives that emerged immediately following Trump's win. Independent writer Zaid Jilani , who hails fr...
Nov 07, 2024•2 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 421
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock t his episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Professor of Journalism at Northwestern University Dr. Steven Thrasher returns to discuss how the fourth estate is failing Gaza, the suppression of students and future journalists for speaking out against the genocide, and how he's been personally targeted by his university for standing with students in their advocacy for Palestinian lives . Subscribe to ...
Nov 03, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 420
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
