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Independent journalist Abby Martin has spent much of her career reporting on Israel's oppression of Palestinians, and was personally affected by anti-BDS legislation when she was disinvited from speaking at Georgia Southern University because she refused to sign an anti BDS pledge. Today, she joins Bad Faith to discuss the new wave of "hasbara," or Israeli media manipulation, that has quickly shifted the focus from 40 imaginary beheaded babies, to a non-existent "command center" under Al-Shifa hospital, to "new" allegations of sexual assault on October 7th. Meanwhile, the media ignores dead Palestinian babies left to decompose in the NICU by Israeli soldiers, Palestinian children shot in cold blood in the West Bank, and the authoritarian bent of congress deeming anti-Zionism anti-Semitism. How do they get away with it all, and what's the current state of things on the ground in Gaza?
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Craig Mokhiber resigned as Director of the UN's New York Office of the Higher Commissioner for Human Rights citing the organizations insufficient response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the pushback he received even before 10/7 when critiquing the human rights violations perpetrated by Israel. In our interview, Craig applies his expertise as a human rights lawyer to substantiate the claim that Israel is in fact committing a genocide and dives deep into what is broken at the UN, such as capture by US interests, and what must happen to advance the rights of Palestinians.
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In this very special Thanksgiving episode, Liv Kunins-Berkowitz & Jason Farbman, two representatives for Jewish Voice for Peace, join to describe how they organized massive events at Grand Central Station, the Statue of Liberty, the Cannon Rotunda, and more, before discussing the crucial role Jewish voices are playing in the movement for Palestinian rights and the challenges that intra-group conversations about Zionism present --including over Thanksgiving dinner.
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Consumer advocate & 2000 Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader joins Bad Faith to weigh in on the revolving chairs of the Green Party's presidential candidates, the strategic value of Cornel West running as an independent, & how left voters should decide between a hypothetical 2024 match-up between Dr. West and Dr. Jill Stein. Briahna also asks Nader to address recent reporting that he would "help Joe Biden win," how people power can beat AIPAC, and whether he, as perhaps the most prominent Arab-American politician in the US, has been able to connect with Rashida Tlaib since her censure by Congress. Nader also explains the immense value of his print media publication Capital Hill Citizen and why every leftist looking to push left politics forward should pick up a copy.
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After the siege of Gaza began Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sought to assuage the public about America's investment in Israel: Don't worry, she said, we can afford two wars -- both the war in Ukraine and Israel's bombardment of Palestine. Brie asked Richard Wolff, Marxist economist, New School professor, and Janet Yellen's former classmate: Is she right? What about the inflationary effect of military spending? Do alternative ways to address inflation like a wage/price freeze undermine our labor goals? And what's next for the Cornel West campaign? We discuss it all on this week's free episode.
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Former Bernie 2020 co-chair, Ohio State Senator, and congressional candidate Nina Turner rejoins Bad Faith to talk about her new movement organization We Are Somebody. What does Turner hope to accomplish that's different than other advocacy orgs and how? Can lefty orgs regain the trust of the donor base after being disappointed by Bernie after the end of his campaigns? And how is she thinking about AIPAC as an obstacle to progressive candidacies and movements given what she went through running for Congress in OH-11, and given the political environment post-10/7?
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Author and journalist Marc Lamont Hill knows better than most what can happen to media professionals who advocate for Palestinian liberation. Fired from CNN back in 2018 for doing exactly that, he’s an excellent resource to weigh in on Gaza and how the mainstream media messaging around the issue of Palestinian liberation is changing rapidly. Also, he dives in to his viral interview with a former Israeli deputy former minister, re: collective punishment, and explains what he learned from interviewing a Hamas spokesperson. You won’t want to miss this.
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As war rages in Gaza, Briahna sits down with the son of an Israeli general who was raised a patriotic Zionist, but whose perspective changed after the tragic loss of his niece to a terrorist attack. Driven by that tragedy to figure out what why a Palestinian suicide bomber would take his own life along with the lives of innocents, Miko Peled began questioning everything he believed about Zionism. In this candid and emotional interview, the author of The General’s Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine grapples with provocative and vital questions, like "Does Israel have a right to exist?" and "Should we in the West refer to Hamas as a terrorist group?" -- the central issues to a century-long conflict that someone with Miko's life experience is most qualified to delve into. A fascinating and fearless episode giving honest context to the state of innocent millions desperate to escape the cycle of violence in the Middle East.
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Presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West returns to Bad Faith to talk about his choice to leave the Green Party and whether it’s really the best strategic option. He then weighs in on the latest violence in Israel/Palestine and the controversies around the left’s response. What does he make of the joint letter of Harvard student groups in response to Hamas’ attack? How does one acknowledge grief and compassion at the murder of Israeli civilians, without validating media narratives that exclusively value Israeli lives without acknowledging the ongoing occupation of Palestinians? It’s the kind of tough, empathic, important conversation we’ve come to expect from Dr. West.
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Brie catches up with Friday left-chair from Rising Jessica Burbank about all the news relevant to the left, from RFK Jr’s third party announcement, the dethroning of he speaker, Diane Finestein’s anti-labor replacement, and Bernie’s support for Ukraine funding. Lots has happened since we recorded this on Monday so let’s shoot for a short call in to catch up on Nina Turner’s announcement and the FTV redux!
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Briahna speaks with writer and professor Norman Finkelstein about the latest scandal involving famed “anti-racism” advocate Ibram X Kendi. Financial mismanagement at BU is just the tip of the iceberg as Finkelstein applies his close reading of Kendi’s work to the current crisis. As interesting as “what’s going on” is the question of how did Kendi even get to a place where he was considered a leading scholar? Does his scholarship have anything to offer? And is “Wokeness” at the root of this?
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Cornel West’s new campaign manager Peter Daou joins Bad Faith to discuss his journey from Jill Stein 2012 supporter to Hillary booster to the Marianne campaign and West 2024. He weighs in on whether he’s really the best option to lead Dr. West’s campaign, what it takes to manage a campaign, and why the left should trust his commitment to the issues that motivate us.
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Breakthrough News' Rania Khalek joins Bad Faith to talk two new interviews with AOC, the public reaction to my debate with Krystal & Kyle, Pod Save America’s take on Biden’s age and bad poll numbers, and the future of third party politics. This sit-down with Rania is long overdue, and this episode is action-packed.
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This week, author, political theorist, and professor of political science Corey Robin joins Bad Faith to unpack his recent article about how AI is disrupting how writing is taught across the country. The tech has gotten so good that it's nearly undetectable, and the temptation to cheat on at-home essays is making many teachers consider whether all essay writing should happen in class. But the trade-offs are obvious: Should limited class time be taken up by in-class essays? Is the pedological benefit of at-home essays worth losing dynamic, Socratic in-class learning? What are we trying to teach kids with longform writing assignments anyway? Should we lean in to technological help in writing the way we've all become accustomed to spellcheck? Didn't Captain Kirk teach us that rigging technology to help you ace a test isn't actually cheating at all? Is writing obsolete? Listen to this podcast instead of reading something to find out.
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The Grayzone's Anya Parampil joins Bad Faith fresh from her trip to South Africa for last month's BRICS summit. She weighs in on what Victoria Nuland was surprised she found there, and what it means for Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, & United Arab Emirates to have joined the economic alliance. She also applies her foreign policy chops to Vivek Ramaswamy's recent takes on Taiwan/China, and the state of the 2024 primary post-RFJ Jr.s Palestine plummet.
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Two DSA members from different sides of an internal divide over the direction the organization should take -- Philip Locker and Scott Karolidis -- join Bad Faith to discuss the National DSA Convention that happened earlier this month. What's the status of resolutions to make DSA run like a political party? Can it hold squad members accountable? Should the organizational require ideological litmus tests? And will they endorse Cornel West?
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Billy Honor of the New Georgia Project, a voter registration effort founded by Stacey Abrams, weighs in on whether the Democratic Party can convince Georgia voters to go to the polls after reneging on so many of the promises that motivated voters back in 2020. What has he been hearing from voters on the ground, and what is the role of voter advocacy orgs in pushing voters, in this case, largely Black and lower income voters, toward candidates that actually reflect their interests. What if their interests align more with, say Cornel West than Joe Biden?
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HuffPo reporter Daniel Marans joins the show to discuss his new viral article detailing tough times for Justice Democrats. After laying off nearly half its staff, the future of Justice Democrats (and of the American left?) is unclear. Are JD's funding woes the result of a disorganized left? Or is the organization's choice to curry favor from superstars like AOC over grassroots donors the root of its problems? Would adversarial politics damn the Justice Dems, or is that the key to their survival? Marans has covered the left for years -- including sharing a beat with Brie back in the day -- so there's plenty to debate about the trajectory of the left as they've seen it, up close and personal.
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Palestinian-American activist Omar Baddar joins Bad Faith for a point-by-point refutation of RFK Jr's views on Palestine, the conduct of the IDF, and what fellow Presidential candidate Marianne Williams has called "dated AIPAC talking points." In the wake of a controversial interview on the Jimmy Dore Show -- as well as Briahna's own showdown with RFK Jr. on Rising -- it's worth parsing what is and isn't true.
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Is having a crush anti-feminist? Are Barbies blue-pilled? Is Ken the protagonist, actually? Is Legally Blonde a better Barbie movie than The Barbie Movie? Is it feminist to manipulate men? And what does it say about how the filmmakers feel about Barbie when the movie ends with Barbie, well, choosing what she chose? This one contains spoilers, but not ones that I think really change how you'll view the film. Leslie Lee III & Kate Willett join Briahna to break down the good, the bad, the Barbie.
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Hollywood writers Josh Olson (A History of Violence & co-host of Briahna's favorite podcast) & Blake Masters (Law & Order LA) join to talk the writers strike that is now a writers-and-actors strike. How has streaming changed the pay structure to disadvantage the creatives that make TV and film great? What role does AI play, and what's the latest on negotiations? No one gives better Hollywood history than Josh Olson, & Blake's philosophical framing of what's happening to the industry cant be beat. Buckle up for a good one.
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Philosophy professor Irami Osei-Frimpong joins Briahna Joy Gray to talk about the SCOTUS affirmative action decision, Jonah Hill text scandal, Keke Palmer, and whether the thread that connects them all is a core failure of the American family.
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Two of the best student debt experts around join Briahna to break down last Friday's SCOTUS judgment, evaluate how serious Biden is about his "plan B," and discuss next steps for the movement. Persis Yu is Deputy Executive Director and Managing Counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center, and Sparky Abraham is a strategist with the Debt Collective and founder of Jubilee Legal.
Check out these resources for next steps:
https://debtcollective.org/forms/scotus-lawsuit-survey
https://debtcollective.org/forms/student-debt-strike
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This is the most detailed examination of RFK Jr's statements on vaccines you will hear. Briahna listened to half a dozen interviews in which RFK Jr. discussed Covid vaccines, manufacturer liability, autism, vaccine injuries and more; and invited epidemiologist Dr. Vinay Prasad on Bad Faith to help her call balls and strikes. You may be surprised by what you hear. Can you really call RFK Jr. "anti vaxx?"
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges returns to the podcast to talk about his relationship with the Cornel West 2024 campaign, ballot access, electoral strategy, RFK Jr. & more. Also discussed are the nurses and teachers unions' endorsement of Joe Biden, the problem of business unionism, & whether RFK Jr. is accurately representing his family legacy.
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In this deep dive with 2024 independent Presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West, Briahna presses him on his decision to distance himself from the Movement for a People's Party, eliciting details about his prospective affiliation with the Green Party that other interviews haven't captured. Is there a chance he won't be the Green nominee? If not, what then? Also, Dr. West explains in detail why he thinks RFK Jr. dramatically misunderstands the plight of Palestinians and fails to apply the same logic he uses to argue against funding Ukraine to funding Israel. They talk campaign strategy, ranked choice voting, and more. A must-listen.
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With two candidates running against Biden in the Democratic Presidential primary, there has been extensive conversation about whether Robert Kennedy and Marianne Williamson will ultimately serve as "sheepdogs" corraling left voters back into the Democratic fold should they lose the primary. One alternative? A dirty break: running in the general election after losing the primary. But is that even possible? Briahna talks to Richard Winger, publisher of Ballot Access News and longtime expert on U.S. third parties, about whether a dirty break strategy could work and what it would look like. You're not going to want to miss this one.
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We're pushing part two of the Cedric Johnson interview to next week in favor of a timely discussion with Representative Ro Khanna about whether the debt ceiling bill represents a "win" for Democrats or a failure of elected progressives to fight. In this interview, which took place hours before last night's vote, Khanna answers whether the Democratic no votes were really performative, whether Biden's failure to raise the debt ceiling during last year's lame duck session disqualifies him from party leadership, and whether Khanna still stands by his decision to support Hakeem Jefferies as minority leader.
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Prof. Cedric G. Johnson, author of After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle, joins Bad Faith to explain why the movement fell short, his beef with police abolitionists, and why a class lens is necessary to understand the roots and trajectory of the policing crisis.
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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 his substantive agreement with them? Also, what does Norman, a staunch advocate of Palestinian rights, make of Ilhan Omar's ejection from the Foreign Affairs committee? The critic of identity politics weighs in on the choice to defend Ilhan as "a black woman." Finally, Norman gives his takes on the Bernie movement, the future of electoralism, and everyone's favorite topic -- Marianne 2024.
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People's Policy Project wonk Matt Bruenig returns to Bad Faith to talk about the looming debt ceiling deadline. Is it time to mint the coin? Pull the 14th Amendment card? And importantly, what exactly are Republicans (and some Democrats) trying to put on the chopping block as the "negotiate" over the budget. Also, Breunig and Brie talk Democratic primary, RFJ Jr. skepticism, & more.
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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 quality issues, the unprecedentedly large pentagon budget, the electoral landscape for 2024, and more.
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Writer and cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams returns to Bad Faith to discuss the deeply divergent perspectives on the subway killing of homeless performer Jordan Neely by former marine Daniel Penny. Thomas engaged in a lengthy exchange with New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie last week that got quite a bit of attention, so Briahna reached out to TCW to have an "offline" chat about why there seems to be so little appetite for engaging with the disproportionate use of force applied by Penny -- rather than past acts by Neely -- or the fact that Neely did not start the physical encounter in the subway that day. Also, are some left actors at fault for engaging in a degree of hyperbole in describing the event as a lynching? Or is that language appropriate given the initial framing by the New York Post and others of Penny as a "hero"? This is the best version of a tough conversation you're likely to find anywhere.
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This week, Katie Halper joins the pod to discuss access journalism and the blurred lines between friendship and solidarity among media figures and conflicts of interest. Is the left, once again, eating itself? Or should friendships between podcasters and political figures be viewed with skepticism? The pair then move on to a discussion of Trump's move to Twitter, Bernie-turned-Biden comms woman Symone Sanders' recent interviews on the status of the 2024 Democratic Primary, and how Sanders rationalizes the move from Bernie to Biden.
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Journalist Ben Norton, editor of the Geopolitical Economy Report, joins to talk de-dollarization, whether Tucker's departure from Fox News is a loss for the left's ability to have left issues platformed to a mainstream audience, war with China, and more. This was such an epic convo that we're making it a two-parter. Check out the second half next Monday on Patreon.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).
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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.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).
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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 the 2024 Democratic Presidential primary. Does the energy fomenting around RFK Jr. present an opportunity for left coalition-building? Or is there a risk that encouraging strategic primary votes creates an illusion that a given candidate is a trusted fighter for left/working class interests? This Monday episode will be made available to all, and part two will air as a premium episode on Thursday -- flipping the usual schedule. You won't want to miss part two, in which Briahna and Kshama parse AOC's recent interview with David Sirota, and address the excuses given for her strike-crushing railroad vote, among other actions in office.
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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 dating, Leonardo DiCaprio & the age question, and other concerns facing leftists in the dating world.
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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 leaves of Nazi artifacts.
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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? And is any accountability for Norfolk southern on the horizon?
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Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)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 questions in an effort to give voice to what is perhaps some good faith confusion about how to negotiate the reality that sports are currently divided on the basis of physical advantages associated with those whose sex is assigned male at birth. They also discuss messaging around the gender identity of the Nashville shooter, the recent dust up around the Emily Yoffe article which allegedly misrepresented a nonbinary child's experience with gender affirming care, and more.
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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.
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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 rights. No gotchas here.
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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-war electeds are on the right?
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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 were learned from how Bernie operated in South Carolina? Do the changes to the primary schedule improve Marianne's chances in New Hampshire? And should progressives invest emotionally if not financially in this race? An insider view of the campaign you wont get anywhere else.
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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 presence of a real Democratic primary change that?
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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 #discourse.
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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 Stoller's take on Matt Taibbi's claim that the FTC's investigation into whether the Twitter Files disclosures compromised private user data is a witch hunt of sorts. We tackled a lot in this one. See you tonight on Callin to discuss.
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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 reporting that the US was behind the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, whether the US should support an independent UN investigation into the sabotage, and more.
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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 a narrative is emerging that limits the cause of the accident to just one issue -- overheating wheel bearings. Is there a risk that defining the cause narrowly will curb legislation that addresses more systemic problems, like meager staffing lax regulations for hazardous materials? David Sirota and The Lever have done the most comprehensive reporting to date re who is responsible for the crash. Together, we walk though Kessler's fact check, fact check it in return, and discuss the mainstream media disinformation campaign to punt blame.
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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 the left given how little we know about which documents have been turned over by Elon Musk and why? Unlike Musk, most whistleblowers are not the heads of the organizations they're informing on. Does Musk's investment in and control over Twitter demand more journalistic scrutiny? Is it possible to characterize the files reviewed so far without making broader claims about about the total archive that, at this point, can't be substantiated? Has there been sufficient inquiry into bias against the left, and has their been sufficient disclosure about the limitations Musk has put on the journalists who've been given access to the archive? It's a difficult and nuanced discussion. Let's debrief tonight on Callin.
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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 holding with respect to Biden's student debt policy based on a close reading of the oral arguments, and whether Jed's amicus brief, referenced by Kavanaugh during oral arguments, correctly raises concerns about an over-expansion of executive power. You won't want to miss this one.
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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, and more. A great interview with an intellectual who isn't afraid to dive deep into sensitive subjects that, nonetheless, are crucial for the left to work out.
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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 East Palestine derailment occur, and what could be done to change that reality. As Briahna has mentioned on the podcast time and time again, Professor Hanson's Corporate Law & Tort Law classes were formative moments in her political evolution. She's thrilled to share some of those lessons on today's pod. She paid 180k for law school so you could get these lessons for free.
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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 proof that government is corrupt and we're better off without it? Also, should AOC debate Majorie Taylor Greene, and if so, how would Nathan prep her? Should Briahna debate Ben Shaprio? And if yes, what would hep her reach the best result for the left? Also, what's the libertarian socialist take on covid vaccines?
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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 should be in her view. Also, Professor Kelton, who advised Senator Sanders in 2020, talks about her frustration with Bernie's reliance on "pay for" rhetoric, and argues that the left can't avoid teaching the public about MMT forever.
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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 dating, Leonardo DiCaprio & the age question, and other concerns facing leftists in the dating world.
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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 attorney-client relationship. The panel discusses the proposed cop training development known as Cop City, the recent murder of Cop City protester Manuel "Tortuguita" Páez Terán by the police, the murder of Tyre Nichols and debates over whether "racism" could have played a role in the killing of a black man by black police officers. The panel then debated the utility of framing criminal justice reform as a "black" issue, the failures of the Biden administration's criminal justice efforts, and the role black mayors play in affirming the status quo.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).
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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 his substantive agreement with them? Also, what does Norman, a staunch advocate of Palestinian rights, make of Ilhan Omar's ejection from the Foreign Affairs committee? The critic of identity politics weighs in on the choice to defend Ilhan as "a black woman." Finally, Norman gives his takes on the Bernie movement, the future of electoralism, and everyone's favorite topic -- Marianne 2024.
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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, Marianne 2024, and the leadership void left by Bernie Sanders. Is there hope for a "Draft X" movement? Who is Wolff's dream candidate?Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).
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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 leverage real power over the last few years? Or is there a good faith reason to want to let it go?
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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 conservatives occasionally have a good point, the merits of Marjorie Taylor Greene's push to abolish the FBI, Vaush's defense of "vote blue no matter who" as a strategy, and more. This is part one of a three hour interview. Part two, largely focusing on Force the Vote, will air on Monday at patreon.com/badfaithpodcast. Don't miss it.
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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 having a serious conversation about what's next. No prevaricating. No doomsdaying. No punting to abstractions. Kshama Sawant also explains why she's leaving the Seattle City Council after a decade.
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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 constraints on speech than our own first amendment does, are a better match for a country that has recently experienced an actual military coup. Is the commitment to free speech absolutism so common in America a product of political naivety in a country that's never really experienced the full potential consequences of home grown fascism? Does the first amendment provide protections that sincerely protect minority views, or does it just create the perception that speech is free at the same time that tech platforms, news papers owned by billionaires, and corporate campaign spending neuter dissident voices? Are Glenn Greenwald's criticisms of limitations on speech occurring in Brazil overly reliant on a US lens/speech framework? Or is there a there there?
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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, and criticism Glenn has gotten that he doesn't push back enough against the right on platforms like the Tucker Carlson show. We also discuss recent events in Brazil, comparisons between Brazil's 1/9 and DC's 1/6, and more.
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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 things get this bad to begin with? A deeply knowledgable guest and a terrific conversation.
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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!)
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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 the ones Frank has written about, the wisdom of Force The Vote, and whether Briahna is right to be jealous of the rogue Republicans in this moment.
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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 explains what we should know and whether a populist movement must consider the "normie' appeal of holding Trump accountable.
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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 American dream exists outside of the military.
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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 combined total of 993 of house arrest. Now he's out and talking about how draconian sentences against environmental protestors are being used prevent activist from doing what he did and more.
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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 -- and he's losing.) It's a perfect time to talk to internet policy expert Evan Greer about legislation pending in congress that might help ensure some degree of the consistency and transparency that Elon promised, but has not yet provided. We discuss Parler, PayPal, & app store tyranny; the hypocrisy of Alejandra Caraballo's condemnation of right wing violence after calling for SCOTUS members to be "accosted," post-Dobbs, and more.
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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 demanded of other group members when one of their own transgresses? What is it about the Hebrew Israelite ideology that's considered de facto anti-Semitic? And does Dave Chappelle's thesis, that anti-Blackness isn't treated with the same gravity as some other types of bigotry, hold up? If it does, what do we do about it?
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