Subscribe 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).   Produced by Armand Aviram.   Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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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 Hillary Clintons suggested? Or is there good reason to be concerned about her “focus on the family” style speeches which highlight an alleged war on traditional values. What conditions on the ground lead to her rise to power, and what hope is there for Italy’s left?

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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 electoralism at all a waste? This panel holds nothing back. It’ a good one.

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Subscribe 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 hobble the economy and force more progressive labor policies than we’ve seen in generations? How do rail workers view the Biden administration’s role in the negotiations, and how can non-union members support rail workers? All this and more on an episode so important, we didn’t want to paywall it.   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 (@nickfromislands).

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Subscribe 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 modern left too indifferent to supporting third party movements? And importantly: why is there so much hostility to the idea of a general strike? What does history tell us about the power of solidarity strikes, and what can we do today to make these “illegal” strikes more likely to occur?   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 (@nickfromislands).

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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 young people without risk factors getting COVID boosters? How have the risk/rewards changed as variants have changed and risk of death has declined. Should colleges still be requiring young men who are at relatively high risk of myocarditis to get vaccinated? They talk about all this and more.

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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 Summer Lee, does Zogby still see the Democratic Party as a party in which progressives can effect change? Briahna asked him about the structure of the DNC, whether he’d support the “dirty break” strategy, and what it would’ve looked like if Bernie went 3rd party in 2016.

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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 this another instance of Democrats supporting a policy in theory that the know will be struck down for procedural reasons?

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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 and more. This is a top 10 all time Bad Faith ep.

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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 does one expand the left audience into non-left spaces without throwing vulnerable constituents or important left issues under the bus? What is that personal line? How does one maintain a moral litmus test without it turning into an unhelpful purity test? Also, can the left get behind a candidate like Marianne Williamson in 2024? Or is the left fundamentally divided on the question of whether to support progressives running on the Democratic Party ticket. Also, the pair debate whether Biden will run for reelection at all. What do you think?

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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 without being attacked as “Trump lovers,” while the left maligned again and again? How did Biden decide on the 10k number? What does Khanna think about the messy redistricting that pit progressives against progressives and establishment dems against establishment dems? Should Yuh-Line Niou run third party on the WFP line? What does Ro make of Yang’s third party pitch, and is Yang stepping on Ro’s own midwest messaging as a tech-focused first generation politico with strong silicon valley? Are democrats going to start pressing for medical debt cancellation?

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Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing and professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, and Alex Karakatsanis, civil rights lawyer and co-founder of Equal Justice Under Law, join Briahna to discuss how the left should respond to the new conservative call to abolish the FBI. What could be done from a left perspective, and is it more important to potentially stick Trump with a crime than to take down an organization that has long targeted the left?

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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 Manchin & Schumer that secured Manchin’s vote, but which might also spell climate doom.

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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 she’s still invested in electoralism.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).

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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?

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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.

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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 captured union leadership, and how can it hold left politician’s accountable? Does the left “eat itself,” or is it in a necessary processes of developing a more adversarial theory of change? How does Vijay believe he will see revolution in his lifetime even as he observes the enormous structural barriers to change?

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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 imprisonment in Russia for drug charges, & offers his take on Euphoria. Stick through until the end, where he also has some thoughts on the epidemic of cop fentanyl “overdoses.”

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Subscribe 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 union organizer Esperanza to discuss the viral Rising segment and whether there is such a thing as a legitimate speech concern when the already vulnerable trans community stands to bear the brunt of the consequences. They also discussed the viral colloquy between Berkeley Professor Khiara Bridges & Senator Josh Hawley last week. Should the left be concerned about the “comms” effects of these viral moments and workshop responses designed to make the fight for LGBTQ equality more accessible? Or is it not worth trying to win arguments with bad faith actors like Hawley?   Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).   Produced by Armand Aviram.   Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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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 Party members are trying to get people to remove their names from the ballot petition. It’s a mess, but Hoh– a former Marine with big-time anti-interventionist credentials, isn’t given up. He’s joined by 2016 Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein to discuss the barriers Greens face, and why they should have the full support of the left.

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Subscribe 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 respond to inflation?   Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).   Produced by Armand Aviram.   Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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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 this quagmire? Why are people blithely talking about the nuclear “option” like it’s an option on the table? Why does it sound like some people would rather see nuclear war than concede anything at all to Putin? Cockburn is an expert on nuclear risk, war profiteering, and the pernicious reach of the military industrial complex, and he brings all that expertise to bare in this must-listen conversation.

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Subscribe 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 that’s no laughing matter.   Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).   Produced by Armand Aviram.   Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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This week, Briahna convened 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 Director of THE SHIFT housing initiative, Leilani Farha, offers a global perspective. Finally, sociologist, anthropologist Dr. Dan Souleles joins from Copenhagen to apply his work on financial capitalism, and the role private equity has played in the housing market. The conversation spans the practical to the philosophical, and only deepens as it progresses. Stick around till the end, and join Briahna on Callin later this evening to discuss.

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Subscribe 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 leftists watching our own Democracy crumble? Ajamu lives in Colombia, and has had a personal relationship with VP-elect Francia Marquez since she was a teenager. Ben and Ajamu explain how powerful left movements forced new president Gustavo Petro to select the Afro-Colombian environmental and indigenous rights activist as his VP, and win an historic election.   Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).   Produced by Armand Aviram.   Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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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.

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