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Episode 224 - Stacey's Grift? (w/ Brittany Gibson)
November 03, 2022 06:43 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Reporter Brittany Gibson broke a huge story about Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams that parallels the revelations reported earlier this year about the misuse of BLM funds. Fair Fight Action, the nonprofit founded by Abrams, paid her close friend and ally’s law firm $9.4 million in 2019 and 2020, with two more years of billing yet to be disclosed. Gibson j...
Episode 223 Promo - The Letter (w/ Joe Cirincione)
October 31, 2022 01:55 - 7 minutes - 7.24 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire 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 ...
Episode 222 - LA: City of A-Holes (w/ Jon Peltz & Rachel Reyes)
October 27, 2022 05:18 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie speaks to a reporter who broke the story of the leaked tape posted to Reddit, which revealed racist remarks by LA city council members and a pattern of racial infighting over redistricting plans. Much of the coverage has focused on the racially charged statements, but we dig into the politics of the city, the political stakes, and how it all affects the...
Episode 221 Promo - This is Revolution (w/ Pascal Robert)
October 24, 2022 03:06 - 6 minutes - 5.82 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 co-host of This is Revolution Podcast Pascal Robert about the extreme unrest in Haiti. Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who is implicated in the assassination of Haiti's last president, Jovenel Moïse, is calling for international forces to help suppress paramilitary "gangs" in the country, and the US state department seems a...
Episode 220 - Debt Cemetery (w/ Astra Taylor & Sparky Abraham)
October 20, 2022 05:45 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast It's spooky season, but millions of Americans who have been haunted by student debt for years will be able to shake that scary specter this month now that the student debt cancellation application is live. Briahna speaks to The Debt Collective's Astra Taylor and Sparky Abraham about the status of ongoing lawsuits intended to thwart debt relief, the open application pro...
Episode 219 Promo - Good Soup: On Protesting AOC, BP, & Cringe
October 17, 2022 02:48 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna speaks to Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson about last week's viral protest of AOC over her votes for Ukraine funding and silence on pushing for peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Were the protestors fair to say Tulsi Gabbard has gotten to the left of the squad on this issue? Is it fair to say voting ...
Episode 218 - We Need to Talk About Kanye (w/ Olayemi Olurin)
October 13, 2022 14:21 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna spoke to friend of the show (and star of Rising Mondays) Olayemi Olurin about the compounding Kayne West scandals that emerged this week. Was his "Death Con 3" tweet enough to finally "cancel" him? Apparently not for Candace Owens, who mounted a full defense on her podcast earlier this week. We tackle it all, from the Tucker interview to the Sarah Si...
Episode 217 Promo - Trust the Science?
October 10, 2022 06:13 - 5 minutes - 4.97 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast After Briahna interviewed Dr. Vinay Prasad last month, some listeners -- along with tweeters from further afield -- recommended other COVID experts to offer a different view. This week, Briahna interviews one of those people: Dr. Justin Feldman, a social epidemiologist from Harvard's School of Public Health. She's also joined by Jamie Seltzer, Dire...
Episode 216 - Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipeline? (w/ Aaron Maté)
October 06, 2022 07:57 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks with Aaron Mate of The Grayzone & Useful Idiots about who blew up the Nordstream 2 pipeline, the threat of nuclear war, and what western media refuses to acknowledge about America's role in in causing this crisis. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). ...
Episode 215 Promo - Italy's Meloni: Girl Boss or Fascist?
October 02, 2022 22:26 - 7 minutes - 6.95 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 Paolo Gerbaudo, sociologist and political theorist based at King’s College London about newly elected Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Is she part and parcel of a wave of right wing "fascists" that have been sweeping the globe, or is the "f word" an overreach in this case? Is her win a win for women everywhere, as...
Episode 214 Promo - DemExit?
September 29, 2022 13:35 - 5 minutes - 5.45 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Brie speaks to Sabrina Salvati, Nick Cruse, & Compton Jay of the Revolutionary Blackout Network about their discontent with electoral politics, and specific concerns about whether more affluent members of the left media sphere are too credulous about the possibility of success via the "inside game." Is there critique fair? Is investing in electoral...
Episode 213 - Pumpkin Strike Latte (w/ Ross Grooters & Lauren Gurley)
September 26, 2022 13:15 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna speaks to railworker Ross Grooters & Washington Post labor reporter Lauren Gurley about the status of the railworker negotiations over their leave policy. Are workers likely to strike? Is the tentative agreement that averted a strike over a week ago reflective of what railworkers are likely to settle for? Will they join a strike wave that could ...
Episode 212 - Labor Pains
September 22, 2022 14:09 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna asks history professor and author of A History of America in Ten Strikes Erik Loomis whether the past reveals the potential of the current labor surge. How did we go from almost no union activity to a workforce strong enough to force FDR into creating the modern social safety net in ten years or so? What role did third party's play, and is the m...
Episode 211 Promo - Is Covid "Over?" (w/ Dr. Vinay Prasad)
September 19, 2022 09:03 - 5 minutes - 5.14 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 hematologist-oncologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco Vinay Prasad for a leftist's critique of COVID policy & the CDC. Has the left let the issue of pharmaceutical overreach be coopted by the right at its own peril? Is there any logic in y...
Episode 210 - The Call is Coming From Inside The House
September 15, 2022 11:11 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week Briahna sppeaks to DNC member, senior advisor to Jesse Jackson, & founder of the Arab American Institute James Zogby about the DNC's latest betrayal: Their failure to even debate a resolution, introduced by Dr. Zogby, to get dark money out of Democratic Party primaries. After seeing how hostile the Democratic Party is to progressives from Jesse Jackson to...
Episode 209 Promo - Student Debt Knell
September 12, 2022 11:16 - 5 minutes - 4.82 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week Briahna interviews Fordham Law Professor Jed Shugerman about his recent article in The Atlantic which warned that Biden's student debt cancelation plan is likely to fail a legal challenge at the Supreme Court level. Was all the celebration over Biden finally "doing something" for naught? And did the Biden administration just goof, or is t...
Episode 208 - Who's Fascist Anyway? (w/ Cornel West)
September 08, 2022 11:45 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna has an intimate, soulful conversation with one of America's top public intellectuals, and a favorite guest of the pod: Dr. Cornel West. They discussed Biden's "MAGA Republican" speech and the utility of calling voters fascist, whether Biden also qualifies as one, how the left should handle the calls to abolish the FBI, the Mississippi water crisis...
Episode 207 Promo - Inside/Outside Game (w/ Krystal Ball)
September 05, 2022 05:00 - 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 Breaking Points & Kyle Krystal & Friends co-host Krystal Ball joins Bad Faith to talk 2024 horse race, the future of the Breaking Points media empire, and accusations that hosting a show with a conservative formalizing a type of "red-brown" alliance that hurts the left. The pair wrestle with questions Briahna has discussed at length on Callin: how ...
Episode 206 - Episode 206 - What Khanna Democrats Do?
September 01, 2022 12:14 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna speaks to Representative Ro Khanna about Biden's commitment to some student loan debt cancellation, and what the progressives plan to do to get full cancellation. Will they use this moment to push Bernie's legislation to make public colleges tuition free? Why do corporate Dems like Tim Ryan get to undermine Biden's policy agenda on student debt wi...
Episode 205 Promo - COVID Reckoning? (w/ Robby Soave & Walker Bragman)
August 29, 2022 11:38 - 5 minutes - 4.74 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna invites her libertarian Rising co-host Robbie Soave to have a good faith conversation about the limits of COVID policy. He's joined by journalist and co-founder of Opt Out Media Walker Bragman, who has been covering what he argues is a failure of the government to offer mitigation interventions that could save thousands of lives....
Episode 204 - New York Shuffle
August 25, 2022 12:44 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks to New York Magazine columnist Ross Barkan about Tuesday's primary results out of New York state. Redistricting gone awry threw incumbents against each other in newly composed districts: progressive against progressive, blue dog against blue dog. What happened to Mondaire Jones & what's the deal worth Yuh-Line Niou? Did Jerry Nader beat Carolyn Malone...
Episode 202 - The Worst Climate Bill That Has Ever Passed
August 18, 2022 13:05 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast If you think you know everything you need to know about the Inflation Reduction Act, I hate to tell you: You're wrong. Few people know more about the procedural maneuvers that keep Americans docile than The Lever's David Sirota. On today's episode, he explains aspects of the parliamentarian maneuver that were new even to Brie, and unpacks the side agreement between ...
Episode 201 Promo - Don't Run Brandon
August 15, 2022 12:28 - 6 minutes - 6.17 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 India Walton, winner of last year’s Democratic primary in Buffalo New York who was railroaded by a write in campaign by the establishment incumbent. She's part of a campaign to stop Biden from running for president in 2024. Briahna asked her about that movement, who she'd like to see in office instead of Biden, and why ...
Episode 200 - Nope on Nope? (w/ Leslie Lee III & Trevor Beaulieu)
August 11, 2022 00:53 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast We take a break from politics this week to talk about Jordan Peele's latest film with two of our favorite cultural critics, Leslie Lee III & Trevor Beaulieu. Is Nope a yes? Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nick...
Episode 199 Promo - The Ungrateful Left?
August 08, 2022 10:26 - 5 minutes - 5.23 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The "inflation reduction" reconciliation bill has now passed. How should the left feel? Brie speaks to Matt Bruenig of the People's Policy Project about what the climate provisions really mean in the broader context of the fight against climate change, whether or not it actually addresses inflation, & why Joe Manchin finally got on board with a rec...
Episode 198 - To The Ends of the Earth" (w/ George Monbiot)
August 04, 2022 10:59 - 1 hour - 63 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week Briahna speaks to environmental activist, author, & journalist George Monbiot about the state of nature: that is, the global warming, the left's growing frustrations with electoral solutions, the tension between individual "green" choices and the scale of industrial pollution, and why George doubts Marx can help with this one. Subscribe to Bad Faith on Y...
Episode 197 Promo - Pox Romana (w/ Dr. Steven Thrasher)
August 01, 2022 05:25 - 6 minutes - 5.99 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week Brie speaks to Dr. Steven Thrasher, author, assistant professor of journalism, & scholar of the criminalization of HIV/AIDS about monkeypox, stigma, and all the lessons we haven't learned from the last two years of COVID pandemic. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod)...
Episode 196 - Who Speaks for the Trees? (w/ Vijay Prasad)
July 28, 2022 11:53 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Marxist historian, commentator, author, and executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Vijay Prasad joins Bad Faith this week to talk about what global revolutions in Sri Lanka, India, Colombia, and other locales around the world can teach Americans trying to cultivate a left revolution here at home. How should the left put pressure on captu...
Episode 195 Promo - Is Roe Viable? (w/ Norm Finkelstein)
July 25, 2022 10:40 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna's favorite sparing partner, author and activist Norm Finkelstein, returns to Bad Faith to discuss chapters from his upcoming book pertaining to Roe v. Wade, the Dobbs opinion, free speech, and "woke" culture. Is the Right right about their being no constitutional basis for abortion rights? Is the left dodging the question of when life begin...
Episode 194 - How To Do Drugs (w/ Dr. Carl Hart)
July 21, 2022 04:35 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna speaks to psychologist, neuroscientist, & Columbia professor Dr. Carl Hart about drugs. The author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups, Dr. Hart explains what everyone gets wrong about drugs and addiction, makes a powerful argument for decriminalization, advises Briahna on what drugs she should try first, weighs in on WNBA player Brittney Griner's imprisonm...
Episode 193 Promo - Who Suffers for Free Speech?
July 18, 2022 08:37 - 6 minutes - 5.92 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast After the online debate a couple of weeks ago between friend of the show Olayemi Olurin & Brie's rising co-hosts Kim Iversen & Robby Soave, Briahna wondered if it were possible to have a different kind of conversation if 1) it were longer form, and 2) it included a Trans leftist. This episode is the result of that experiment. Kim Iversen joins ...
Episode 192 - Dems vs. Greens (w/ Matthew Hoh & Dr. Jill Stein)
July 14, 2022 01:13 - 1 hour - 63 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast North Carolina Senate candidate Matthew Hoh is enduring an all out attack from the Democratic Party to get him off the ballot. Why? Because he's running as a Green Party candidate. He got more than enough signatures, but the state wont certify them. And Hillary Clinton's lawyer is involved in a cold-calling campaign in which agents representing themselves as Green P...
Episode 191 Promo - No [Price] Cap?: Inflation Truths (w/ Fadhel Kaboub)
July 11, 2022 08:57 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, economist Fadhel Kaboub returns to the podcast to follow up on a recent conversation about price controls with Richard Wolff. Are they really the solution? What are the pros and cons? How do you respond to people who point to Nixon's price controls as proof that price controls don't work? And what is the left's final word on how to ...
[UNLOCKED] Episode 158 - The Nuclear "Option" (w/ Andrew Cockburn)
July 07, 2022 15:04 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna speaks with Washington Editor of Harper's Andrew Cockburn about his book The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine. Why does acknowledging any of the historical antecedents to Russia's invasion of Ukraine draw accusations of being "Putin's puppet?" What is that history, and how should it inform our thinking about how to unwind...
Episode 190 Promo - Dobbs Kvetch
July 04, 2022 06:08 - 6 minutes - 5.91 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast About a week post-Dobbs, Briahna speaks to public defender and periodic co-host at The Hill Rising Olayemi Olurin & comedian and podcaster Kate Willet about the Democratic party response and what this means about the state of women's' rights in America. It's a long overdue kvetch-sesh with two of the funniest leftists around, about a subject th...
Episode 189 - Living Rent Free
June 30, 2022 11:02 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna convenes an all-star panel of guests to break down the economic and philosophical roots of the housing crisis, and how to solve it. Rebecca Parson, a candidate for Washington's 6th congressional district, brings her personal experiences with homelessness to bear, along with observations from her district, while Canadian attorney and Global Directo...
Episode 188 Promo - How The Left Was Won: Lessons From Colombia (w/ Benjamin Norton & Ajamu Baraka)
June 27, 2022 12:33 - 5 minutes - 4.73 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 journalist & editor at Multipolarista Benjamin Norton and 2016 Green Party VP & National Organizer for Black Alliance for Peace Ajamu Baraka about the recent election of the first left President of Colombia. What are the implications for US imperialism in the region, and what lessons does it hold for American lefti...
Episode 187 - The Boy Who Cried Wolff (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff)
June 23, 2022 04:09 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Marxist economist Richard Wolff returns to the podcast to answer all of your inflation questions, to weigh in on Krystal Ball's face off with Bill Maher, and to tie domestic politics to the labor activism in the UK and recent leftist victories around the world. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badf...
Episode 186 Promo - Bimbo Tok, Weigel, & The End of Feminism
June 20, 2022 07:20 - 5 minutes - 4.83 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Brie takes a break from it all to chat with her friend & hardest working podcaster on the left Katie Halper about the Dave Weigel suspension, the Depp/Heard Trial, the "Bimbos of TikTok" trend, and what it all means about the future of feminism. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith ...
Episode 185 - Is "Wokeness" Killing the Left? (w/ Freddie DeBoer & Pascal Robert)
June 16, 2022 07:15 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Last week, Sam Adler-Bell's provocative New York Magazine piece on the problem with contemporary "wokeness" discourse launched a thousand Twitter threads and response pieces. Many were critical, but does he have a point? Is there something toxic about how resistant some on the left are to talking to people who don't already agree with us? And if the goal is to reac...
Episode 184 Promo - The Neoliberalism of It All (w/ Rep. Ro Khanna)
June 13, 2022 12:04 - 4 minutes - 3.87 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, California Representative Ro Khanna returns to the podcast to challenge Biden’s neoliberal approach to rising oil and food prices across the country. He also answers questions about the divisive endorsement of Nomiki Konst for NY state senate over a DSA endorsed candidate, the Billionare Republican within a hair’s breadth of becomin...
Epiosde 183 - Supp-Lie Demand (w/ Cory Doctorow)
June 09, 2022 10:18 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, journalist, activist, & blogger Cory Doctorow destroys right-wing (and lib) lies about inflation, explains what can and should be done about gas and food prices, and offers one of the most digestible explanation of how the US budget actually works. This is one episode you're going to want to send to that one uncle. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for ...
Episode 182 Promo - New Voice In The Old Bay State (w/ McKayla Wilkes)
June 06, 2022 05:08 - 5 minutes - 4.78 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Do left candidates running within the Democratic party deserve your support? McKayla Wilkes is running against Steny Hoyer in Maryland's 5th district, and she thinks she's got a chance to win. But if she does, will she vote for Pelosi to be speaker of the house, for bloated defense budges, and to fund Israeli apartheid just like presently elec...
Episode 181 - The Pewdiepie Pipeline (w/ F.D. Signifier)
June 02, 2022 13:27 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The self-described "Black godfather of BreadTube" joins the podcast today to talk about his latest viral video on the mass shooter phenomenon and the role internet culture plays in radicalizing disaffected youth. F.D. Signifier wrote his master's thesis on mass shooters and also thought young boys -- many of whom took their own lives -- and brings a unique perspecti...
Episode 180 Promo - Lab Leak Theory: New Evidence? (w/ Jeffrey Sachs)
May 30, 2022 10:14 - 5 minutes - 5.17 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 Jeffrey Sachs, chair of the Lancet COVID-19 commission. He once believed expert consensus that lab leak theory was a nothingburger. But as he conducted the investigation and got unsatisfactory answers about what research was happening in US labs, he became determined to prove or disprove lab leak theory — one way or...
Episode 179 - The Somalia Proxy (w/ Samar Al Bulushi)
May 26, 2022 07:48 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Briahna speaks to Samar Al Bulushi, UC Irvine professor with a focus on imperialism, East Africa, & geopolitics, about Biden's choice to recommit troops to Somalia following Trump's withdrawal. It's everything you really wanted to understand about US imperialism in Africa that you can't get from seven minute news segments. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video ...
Episode 178 Promo - Progressives Without a Party w/ (Amy Vilela)
May 23, 2022 08:35 - 4 minutes - 4.3 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 congressional candidate from Nevada's 1st district, Amy Vilela, about how she plans to address mounting frustrations from progressive voters about electoral politics. With so many progressive with legitimately powerful lived experiences in office, and do little progress, is that enough? Is Vilela willing to be genui...
Episode 177 - They're Selling Soap Man: Is "The Great Replacement" Real?
May 19, 2022 05:31 - 1 hour - 59 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast This week, Briahna was joined by host of The Funky Academic, Irami Osei-Frimpong, to do a deep dive into Great Replacement Theory and the manifesto written by the Buffalo shooter. They acknowledge that on some level Tucker Carlson was right: Democrats have long been vocal about their hope that "the browning of America" will inure to their electoral benefit. But where...
Episode 176 Promo - We Need To Talk About Tucker
May 16, 2022 08:54 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Last week, the New York Times published a 20,000-word deep dive into Fox News host Tucker Carlson and the political views he espouses to the biggest audience on cable news. Now, in the wake of a mass shooting event in Buffalo allegedly inspired by his ideology, Carlson is coming under even greater scrutiny. Recorded prior to the tragic shootin...
Episode 175 - Musk Rat Race (w/ Matt Stoller)
May 12, 2022 06:02 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBSubscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast What started off as a conversation about free speech, Section 230, Elon Musk's Twitter buy, and the antitrust solutions to social media censorship became an energetic debate about the nature of American exceptionalism, identity politics, & patriotism vs afro pessimism. Matt Stoller, anti-monopoly expert behind the substack BIG & author of Goliath: The Hundred Year Wa...