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Episode 271 - Black Agenda Report (w/ Margaret Kimberly)
May 01, 2023 11:38 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Margaret Kimberly, Executive Editor and Senior Columnist at Black Agenda Report and the current host of Black Agenda Radio joins Bad Faith to talk about the FBI targeting of the African People's Socialist Party, her fantasy third party presidential candidates, the failures of the Black misleadership class, and her take on how the left should handle the 2024 election. ...
Episode 270 Promo - Foregone Illusion: Part 2 (w/ Kshama Sawant)
April 27, 2023 11:48 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast In part two of this two-part episode, Briahna and Kshama Sawant parse AOC's recent interview with David Sirota at The Lever and analyze her explanation for voting to crush the rail workers strike. They also continue their debate about what litmus test presidential candidates must pass to secure primary votes from progressives. Is Bernie the fl...
Episode 270 - Foregone Illusion: Part 1 (w/ Kshama Sawant)
April 24, 2023 11:47 - 1 hour - 60 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast In the first part of an epic two-hour two-parter with Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, Briahna and Kshama dive into Kshama's recent successes in Seattle before interrogating the institutional failures of the DSA & elected progressives. Why will Workers' Alternative be different? They then move on to continuing the debate over how much the left should invest in...
[UNLOCKED] Episode 251 - Marx & Singles (w/ FD Signifier, Olayemi Olurin, Katie Halper, & Jason Myles)
April 20, 2023 12:27 - 1 hour - 99 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna is joined by an all-star group for Bad Faith's first co-ed dating panel. Movement lawyer Olayemi Olurin, YouTube phenom FD Signifier, and podcast co-host extraordinaire Katie Halper return to the podcast, while Jason Myles from This is Revolution Podcast joins Bad Faith for the first time. We get immediately into the drama and cover interracial datin...
Episode 268 - Supreme Courting (w/ Corey Robin)
April 17, 2023 08:25 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Corey Robin joins Bad Faith to offer a deeper dive on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the wake of a ProPublica expose that uncovered decades of undeclared gifts Thomas has taken from a rightwing billionaire. Robin literally wrote the book on Thomas, and is able to give a much more complex and nuanced read on what motivates the man beyond reading the tea leav...
Episode 269 Promo - The Truth About East Palestine
April 17, 2023 08:23 - 6 minutes - 5.87 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks to Louis DeAngelis, who has been on the ground in East Palestine, about the ongoing failures of federal and local government and stunning new revelations out of town hall meetings the mainstream media has been ignoring. Weeks after Trump's visit, who do locals blame for inaction? Why is testing equipment not calibrated to assess harm...
Episode 267 Promo - Lost in Translation (w/ Erin Reed)
April 10, 2023 12:19 - 6 minutes - 6.01 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks to Erin Reed, a journalist who has been covering the hundreds of anti-trans bills that have been proposed this year more closely and thoroughly than perhaps anyone in the country. They discuss the activist community's disappointment over Biden's recent compromise on Title IX and trans women in sports, and Briahna asks some tough ques...
Episode 266 - Howard Schultz: Roasted (w/ Tyler Keeling)
April 06, 2023 10:50 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna is joined by Starbucks organizer and west coast barista Tyler Keeling to debrief the Howard Schultz congressional hearings during which Bernie held him to task for his long record of union busting. Not only was Tyler present at the hearing, he has read *both * of Schultz's books, and comes prepared to spill the tea...er, coffee. Subscribe to Bad Fa...
Episode 265 Promo - J Street View (w/ Joel Rubin)
April 03, 2023 12:40 - 5 minutes - 5.31 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna is joined by Joel Rubin, Bernie's 2020 director of Jewish outreach and founding political director of J Street, to talk about Netanyahu's power grab in Israel, the historic street protests there against the far right, whether a two state solution is still viable, and how the left can figure out how to talk about Israel and Palestinian right...
Episode 264 - Rules Based Order (w/ Dr. Trita Parsi)
March 30, 2023 11:28 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna talks to frequent Rising guest Dr. Trita Parsi of the Quincy institute about Putin's meeting with President Xi and the potential paths to peace in Ukraine. Is the West actually indispensable to global peace? What does it mean if it's not? What should we make of the West's skepticism of a ceasefire in Ukraine? And is it really true that the only anti-...
Episode 263 Promo - Can We Win? (w/ Carlos Cardona & Marcurius Byrd)
March 27, 2023 11:15 - 6 minutes - 5.69 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna sits down with Carlos Cardona and Marcurius Byrd, the New Hampshire and South Carolina state directors for Marianne Williamson's 2024 campaign about what it would take for a progressive to win, and whether it's even possible given what we know about how the DNC put the finger on the scale in the last two Democratic primaries. What lessons w...
Episode 262 - How Big of a Climate Betrayal is the Willow Oil Project? (w/ David Wallace-Wells)
March 23, 2023 09:06 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast New York Times environmental journalist David Wallace-Wells returns to Bad Faith to discuss his latest article about the enormity of Biden's latest climate betrayal: an oil project in the arctic that severely undermines the much-touted gains of the Inflation Reduction Act. What does the left go next? Do they have even less leverage than they did in 2020, and would the...
Episode 261 Promo - What's "Woke"? (w/ Freddie deBoer & Osita Nwanevu)
March 20, 2023 10:28 - 5 minutes - 5.35 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Following Briahna's super viral interview with Bethany Mandel on Rising, America once again debated the meaning of "woke" and why it matters. This week on Bad Faith, Brie welcomes back Freddie deBoer, author of the recent Substack essay "Of Course You Know What 'Woke' Means," along with New Republic contributor Osita Nwanevu to dig in to the #disco...
Episode 260 - Planes, Trains, & Bank Bailouts (w/ Matt Stoller)
March 16, 2023 09:05 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna recorded this episode with Matt Stoller last Friday as news was emerging about the failure of Silicon Valley Bank -- the 20th largest bank in the US. We discuss the roots of that crisis along with how antitrust factors into the disaster in East Palestine & prospective merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines. Finally, at the end of the episode, Briahna get's ...
Episode 259 Promo - Glutton for Punishment (w/ Rep. Ro Khanna)
March 13, 2023 09:25 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast On this week's premium episode, Briahna presses Representative Ro Khanna about his vote condemning socialism, whether legislation proposed to address the crisis in East Palestine goes far enough, whether his endorsement of Biden's 2024 campaign is premature in light of more progressive-aligned entrants into the race, his thoughts on Sy Hersh's repo...
Episode 258 - Train of Fraught (w/ David Sirota)
March 09, 2023 08:48 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast With new legislation being advanced in Congress that's ostensibly designed to address the regulatory failures that led to two Norfolk Southern train derailments in Ohio this year, it's important to understand the causes of that accident and what would authentically help. Glenn Kessler's Washington Post fact check along with some other mainstream coverage suggest that ...
Episode 257 Promo - Document Review (w/ Matt Taibbi)
March 06, 2023 12:41 - 6 minutes - 6.08 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna interviewed Matt Taibbi about a narrow concern she's had with the Twitter files archive: Despite the obvious value that Matt and other twitter files reporters have created by exposing links between the intelligence agencies and online censorship, is it fair to characterize Twitter's bias as against the right and indifferent to th...
Episode 256 - Student Dêbt-à-Dêbt (w/ Jed Shugerman & Persis Yu)
March 02, 2023 20:29 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This might be the best conversation unpacking this week's student debt SCOTUS oral arguments you'll hear. Fordham Law professor Jed Shugerman returns to the pod and gets some healthy pushback from Student Borrower Protection Deputy Executive Director Persis Yu. The expertise on display here is extraordinary, as the two go back and forth over the Supreme Court's likely ...
Episode 255 Promo - Take Me to Church (Committee) (w/ Christian Parenti)
February 27, 2023 09:51 - 6 minutes - 6.08 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks to John Jay College Professor of Economics Christian Parenti about why the left should support the Republican-driven efforts to interrogate bias within the FBI & restrain its powers, the Sy Hersh article alleging US responsibility for the Nord Stream sabotage, the controversy around the Rage Against the War Machine anti-war rally, an...
Episode 254 - A History of Corporate Capture
February 23, 2023 13:16 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Harvard Law & Economics Professor (and Briahna's favorite teacher) Jon Hanson joins Bad Faith to offer a firsthand lesson on the legal theories, economic principles, and social psychology that explain how our legal system and our democracy became so corrupted. In a sweeping conversation, Hanson explains how low liability standards all but ensure disasters like the Ea...
Episode 253 Promo - Responding to the Right (w/ Nathan J. Robinson)
February 20, 2023 11:18 - 6 minutes - 5.75 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna enlists the help of Nathan J. Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of Current Affairs and author of the new book Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments to push back against common right-leaning arguments that have emerged in the wake of the East Palestine train derailment and other current events. Is regulators' failures ...
Episode 252 - Does MMT End the "Debt Ceiling" Debate? (w/ Stephanie Kelton)
February 16, 2023 14:46 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna got tons of feed back on the Richard Wolff episode about the debt ceiling debate from Modern Monetary Theory heads who objected to Wolff treating the US economy like a household budget. So Briahna asked the foremost MMT economist & author of "The Deficit Myth," Professor Stephanie Kelton, on to explain what the left's approach to the debt ceiling discourse s...
Episode 251 Promo - Marx & Singles (w/ FD Signifier, Olayemi Olurin, Katie Halper, & Jason Myles)
February 13, 2023 14:30 - 5 minutes - 5.04 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna is joined by an all-star group for Bad Faith's first co-ed dating panel. Movement lawyer Olayemi Olurin, YouTube phenom FD Signifier, and podcast co-host extraordinaire Katie Halper return to the podcast, while Jason Myles from This is Revolution Podcast joins Bad Faith for the first time. We get immediately into the drama and co...
Episode 250 - Race, Class, Cop City (w/ Matthew Clair & Kamau Franklin)
February 09, 2023 12:17 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks to Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders and a long-time organizer/attorney/writer in Atlanta who has been working against Cop City and around policing broadly, and Matthew Clair, a Stanford professor of sociology with a focus on how race and class inequalities in the criminal legal system are embedded in and reproduced through the attorn...
Episode 249 Promo - I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It (w/ Norman Finklestein)
February 06, 2023 10:46 - 8 minutes - 7.45 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Professor and iconoclast Norman Finkelstein's long-awaited book is finally out! He and Briahna discuss chapters on Ta-Nehisi Coates & Kimberlé Crenshaw in the wake of news that those authors and others have been omitted from the African American AP curriculum. Does the cancel culture critic have a defense of these figures being canceled despite hi...
Episode 248 - American Hustle (w/ Richard Wolff)
February 02, 2023 14:35 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna interviews Marxist economist Richard Wolff about the debt ceiling negotiations that started this week and the progressive solutions to the debt crisis that are never put on the table, including taxing the rich, cutting the military budget, and minting the coin. The conversation eventually turns toward the subject preoccupying the left: the future of the left, Ma...
Episode 247 Promo - Vaush Debate Part II: We Have Power, Actually
January 30, 2023 05:35 - 5 minutes - 5.22 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Part two of last week's conversation with popular Twitch streamer Vaush is here. During the first half, we have some really promising simpatico about doomerism on the left, before we get derailed in the FTV quagmire again. Is Brie right to want some accountability from left media figures who thwarted one of the few opportunities for the left to lev...
Episode 246 - Fascist Enabler vs. Weimar Guy (w/ Vaush)
January 26, 2023 01:57 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock Part 2 of Briahna's interview with Vaush and our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast After Briahna and Vaush met on the set of Rising last week, Briahna decided to reach out to Vaush and invite him to discuss a number of critiques he's leveled against her over the years. The two have a substantially good faith -- if at times fiery -- conversation about whether Briahna enables fascists by acknowledging when c...
Episode 245 Promo - What's Left? 2024
January 23, 2023 04:45 - 7 minutes - 6.46 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast An all-star panel of left leaders -- Kshama Sawant, Imani Oakley, & Shahid Buttar -- discuss 2024 and the state of the left. The Freedom Caucus validated the efficacy of Force The Vote just weeks after the Democratic Party consigned crushing a rail road strike, and now some of the few consistent left voices remaining are looking forward to 2024 and...
Episode 244 - "Are You, Like, Over The First Amendment?" (w/ Branko Marcetic & Andrew Fishman)
January 19, 2023 07:14 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast President of Intercept Brazil Andrew Fishman & Jacobin columnist Branko Marcetic join Briahna for a deep dive into Brazil's version of 1/6. Was it, in fact, a legitimate coup attempt? And what role did social media play in the storming of Brazil's capital? Then we pivot to a philosophical conversation about the role Brazil's speech laws, which allow for many more const...
Episode 243 Promo - Speech Matters (w/ Glenn Greenwald)
January 16, 2023 12:17 - 5 minutes - 4.86 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the good faith leftist (v.s bad faith liberal) critiques of the Twitter Files, censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story, the Brock Bot army's media attacks on the left, the "free speech right" and its apparent indifference to speech restrictions that threaten trans people,...
Episode 242 - Ground Control to Mayor Pete (w/ Bill McGee)
January 12, 2023 10:02 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week Briahna speaks to William McGee -- a Senior Fellow for Aviation at the American Economic Liberties Project -- about the root causes of the Southwest Airlines meltdown that left two million Americans stranded over the holidays. How much is Mayor Pete to blame? Should the US nationalize the airlines already rather than bail the out again and again? And how did ...
Episode 241 Promo - Propaganda for the Planet (w/ Timothy Morton)
January 09, 2023 13:34 - 7 minutes - 6.61 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, a philosophical conversation about the environmental movement with eco-philosopher Timothy Morton. We discuss the Stop Oil soup/Van Gogh protest, the value of political performance, Don't Look Up, meaninglessness as an attribute, & more. (Some Glass Onion spoilers!) Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Fi...
Episode 240 - We Need To Talk About Kevin (w/ Thomas Frank)
January 05, 2023 07:37 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Whenever something crazy is going down in Congress, Thomas Frank is here to talk about it. We chatted while the Capitol was stormed on 1/6, and now the historian, writer, and populism expert returns to Bad Faith as the House Republicans struggle to meet the 218-vote threshold to elect a Speaker. Inside: discussions about the parallels between this historical moment and...
Episode 239 Promo - Should the Left Care About 1/6 Committee Report?
January 02, 2023 12:19 - 7 minutes - 6.46 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Jennifer Briney of Congressional Dish returns to the podcast to discuss her read on the 1/6 congressional hearings and report which she's been reviewing for one of her deep-dive podcast episodes. Some on the left have seen these hearings as somewhat of a distraction from more substantive, material issues. But is that a mistake? She expla...
Episode 238 - Whose War is it Anyway? (w/ Stephen Semler)
December 29, 2022 11:56 - 58 minutes - 54 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks to Security Policy Reform Institute co-founder Stephen Semler, about his thorough and viral analysis of the 2023 Omnibus bill. No. one is breaking down military spending like Stephen. We discuss how the bill undermines Biden's climate "victories," increased spending on the Ukraine/Russia conflict, the complacency of elected progressives, and whether the ...
Episode 237 - Dis-Oil-Bedience (w/ Steven Donziger)
December 22, 2022 11:03 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Last time he joined Bad Faith, Steven Donziger explained how he was victim of a corporate prosecution: After wining an unprecedentedly large judgement against oil company Chevron for polluting the Ecuadoran Amazon and positing thousands of indigenous people, Chevron took revenge on Steven, mounting a corporate prosecution that landed him with 45 days in prison and a co...
Episode 236 Promo - Chasing Assh*les Around The Internet (w/ Evan Greer)
December 19, 2022 10:51 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Elon Musk is having a normal one on Twitter -- banning journalists who reported on the "Elon Jets" account that posted information about the location of his private plane, prohibiting links to sites like Mastodon & Instagram, and issuing polls asking the public whether he should step down from Twitter. (As of writing, more than 8 million have voted...
Episode 235 - Negros to Hebrews (w/ Marc Lamont Hill)
December 15, 2022 09:14 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Author, pundit, & professor Marc Lamont Hill returns to Bad Faith to reflect on (Kan)Ye West, Kyrie Irving, and why Black Hebrew Israelites hold such appeal for these big name Black American celebs. Was Van Jones right to apologize to Jewish people on behalf of Black Americans? Are Black folks being held collectively responsible in a way that differs from what is deman...
Episode 234 Promo - We Don't Know & We Don't Care (w/ Ralph Nader)
December 12, 2022 08:29 - 7 minutes - 6.44 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Consumer activist and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader on whether the Squad betrayed rail workers, the corruptive influence of the Congressional Black Caucus, what Hakeem Jefferies means for progressives 'inside game,' the reordering the Democratic Primary, whether Dems will hold SBF accountable, Kyrsten Sinema's party switch, Tesla's qual...
Episode 233 - Fraud Squad? (w/ Kshama Sawant & Ryan Grim)
December 08, 2022 08:43 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Seattle city councilmember & Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant joins Bad Faith to debate the strategy, adopted by most of the squad, to vote for the union-crushing tentative agreement that averted a legal railworkers strike. Ryan Grim has been accused of "running cover" for the squad members' strategy, while Kshama Sawant argued their vote for a union voting b...
Episode 232 Promo - SBF's Ineffective Altruism (w/ Teddy Schleifer)
December 05, 2022 07:39 - 5 minutes - 5.13 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna speaks to Teddy Schleifer, a journalist who covers Silicon Valley billionaires for Puck News, about Sam Bankman-Fried, the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX, and his obsession with media. Why does he keep exposing himself via high profile interviews (and DM exchanges) that amount to free depositions for the SEC and DOJ -- both ...
Episode 231 - Railroaded
December 01, 2022 05:22 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast An all-star labor panel convenes to break down how the "most labor-friendly president since FDR" backed management & abandoned rail workers, how the media ran cover for Biden's betrayal, and how the so-called progressives in the House once again tried to use technocratic tools to obscure their complicity. Union train engineer Ross Grooters returns to the podcast along ...
Episode 230 Promo - The Austerity to Fascism Pipeline (w/ Clara Mattei)
November 28, 2022 17:51 - 6 minutes - 5.59 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna spoke to political economist Clara Mattei about her new book The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. She explains the invention of austerity politics, how it's been sold to the masses historically, and breaks down a recent Obama interview in which he carries water for what he calls, "in...
[UNLOCKED] Episode 223 - The Letter (w/ Joe Cirincione)
November 24, 2022 20:02 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna has a heated but productive conversation with Joe Cirincione, former president of the Ploughshares Fund -- a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution -- about the controversy surrounding the CPC letter pushing for peace in Ukraine. Every argument you've seen against the letter is competently raised by...
Episode 229 Promo - Follow The Leader
November 21, 2022 09:16 - 6 minutes - 5.57 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Intercept D.C. bureau chief Ryan Grim returns to Bad Faith to explain everything we need to know about Nancy Pelosi stepping down from her leadership position in the house. Why, two years after force the vote, have progressives still not contemplated a left candidate for leadership? Will likely minority leader Hakeem Jefferies be a bigge...
Episode 228 - Gangs of New York (w/ Ross Barkan & Zohran Mamdani)
November 17, 2022 09:21 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Democrats avoided a red wave and held onto the Senate, but they didn't avoid a red wave in New York. If they had, they, they might have held on to the house as well. New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani and journalist on the NY beat Ross Barkan rejoin Bad Faith podcast to explain the bloodbath in NY. Who is at fault? DCCC chair Sean Patrick Maloney, who pushed...
Episode 227 Promo - America Has No Morals (w/ Roger Waters)
November 14, 2022 05:38 - 5 minutes - 5.35 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters about his recent spate of powerful, controversial media appearances about American foreign policy. How has he managed to use his fame to go where most progressives aren't allowed, and how has he managed to stay the course after so much pushback from the establishment? Subscribe to Bad Faith on ...
Episode 226 - Ain't Black (w/ Coleman Hughes)
November 10, 2022 06:57 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast In a break from the horserace, Briahna speaks to writer, podcaster, and conservative Black intellectual Coleman Hughes about Kanye, Candace, & the state of Black conservatism, the Defund movement, identity politics, white guilt, Elon Musk, censorship, and more in an intimate, free flowing conversation. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find...
Episode 225 Promo - Coup-ties: Aaron Maté & Branko Marcetic on the Fallout from The Joe Cirincione Interview
November 07, 2022 02:57 - 5 minutes - 5.24 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Grayzone journalist & Useful Idiots co-host Aaron Maté joins Jacobin staff writer & author of Yesterday's Man Branko Marcetic to discuss the fallout from last week's Joe Cirincione interview, and answer tough questions about when and if the United States should intervene in a humanitarian crisis, whether what is happening in Ukraine constitutes ge...