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•Ep 455•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 454•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 453•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 452•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 450•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 449•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 448•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 447•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 446•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 445•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 444•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 443•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 442•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 441•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 440•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 439•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 438•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 437•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 436•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 435•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 424•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 434•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 433•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 432•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 431•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 430•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 429•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 428•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 427•Transcript available on Metacast 
