Subscribe 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 on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).   Produced by Armand Aviram.   Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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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 reach a wider audience, doesn’t that require us to use different language than we do when preaching to the choir? At what point does changing our language implicate the underlying morals and values? And does abandoning woke language mean abandoning the populations it’s meant to serve? Pascal Robert of This is Revolution & Freddie deBoer of his eponymous blog join Briahna to talk Lizzo’s lyric change, that NPR tweet about “menstruating people,” the viral “What Is a Woman” film, and more.

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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, 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 becoming mayor of LA, Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s response to Abby Martin’s call for America to have a more forceful rebuke of Israel in the wake of Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder, and more.   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, 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.

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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    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 elected progressives have done? Also, Briahna asks her about the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s betrayal of Nina Turner, her thoughts about the latest mass shootings, and more.   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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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 perspective as a very online elder millennial who has done his fair share of book-learning on the subject. The conversation expands to a critique of the left’s own recruiting prowess — especially when it comes to Black leftist. Be sure to check out F.D.’s latest, “Dissecting the Manosphere,” as well as the other videos on his YouTube channel.

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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 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 another. Learn more about his muck raking investigation, new clues that indicate a zoonotic origin for COVID is less likely than a lab origin, and how he’s upsetting the scientific establishment on this week’s premium Bad Faith.   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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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.

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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 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 genuinely adversarial to the Democratic party? If another #ForceTheVote scenario arose, would she withhold her vote for a must pass bill, or come out openly against Nancy Pelosi and House leadership? Briahna asked all this and more. 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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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 is the line between observing geographic trends as disadvantageous, and seeing immigration as a form of genocide? Who is responsible for the liberal discourse getting so nonsensical that it is easily co-opted and flipped by conservatives? What are the parallels between America’s preemptive military “invasions” and the mass murders conducted by those who see themselves as soldiers in a race war? And is Irami right that there is a serious “white culture” problem afoot?

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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    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 shooting events, this episode explores how Tucker has achieved such popularity, how liberals have failed to respond effectively, and whether the left is negligent in largely ignoring the Tucker phenomenon. How does one push back against “replacement theory,” the American Exceptionalism that wrapped up in the guise of “anti CRT” advocacy, and a narrative that anticipates accusations of racism and uses them to argue that Tucker Carlson is the real victim? Is it enough to refocus the conversation on class issues and point out that the right is doing faux populism? Does avoiding the culture wars mean throwing minority groups like Trans Americans under the bus? A thoughtful panel comprised of Maximillian Alvarez, Trevor Beaulieu, & Q Anthony Omene discuss.

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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 War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy returns to the pod for a fun and unexpectedly rigorous debate.

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This episode goes beyond an examination of Alito’s reasoning in the now famous leaked draft Supreme Court opinion reversing Roe v. Wade. Law professor Eric Segall returns to the podcast along with professor Caroline Corbin of University of Miami School of Law to discuss the longer project of writing the establishment clause (e.g. separation of church and state) out of the constitution, & how the Satanic Temple might save us all. Also, in addition to abortion, are all the other rights that depend on the right to privacy now at risk? The right to use contraception? Gay sex? Interracial marriage? Alito says no, but does the way he distinguishes those cases really hold up? This might be the most informative and entertaining discussion on the end of Roe you’ve heard yet.

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Given how salient this conversation is to the leaked Supreme Court decision draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade, we’re unlocking this episode. Do you agree with Professor Bowie that we should weaken the courts? Or does a direct democracy scare you?

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Last summer, the country was engaged in a robust conversation about how Democrats could reform the court to compensate for the last 40 years of conservative judicial dominance which culminated in the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. But Biden punted on the question of court reform, vowing to host a commission on the subject instead. Well, the commission happened last week, and while it was mostly theatre, the question of court reform remains an important one. This week, we brought two ideologically diverse law professors who testified on the Biden commission together to discuss their preferred approaches to court reform, along with friend of the show Eric Segall, Ashe Family Chair Professor of Law at Georgia State; Niko Bowie, Assistant Professor at Harvard Law; and Ilan Wurman, associate professor at Arizona state join us for a spirited debate about how to improve the court, whether we should even have a constitution, and the Hungarian judicial system. It’s a good one.

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A couple of weeks ago, Briahna joined Brown professor Glenn Loury on his podcast to revisit their viral conversation on Bad Faith. It was so good, we’re sharing it here on the free feed. What do a Black (Brown) conservative economics professor and a Black (and red) socialist have in common? Besides loving that Loury’s wife loves Bernie? Listen and find out.

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After Biden teased “significant” student debt relief last week, Republicans and corporate Dems lost their minds coming up with bad faith arguments against student debt cancellation. Briahna caught up with consumer debt attorney and debt jubilee advocate Sparky Abraham about where we are in the fight for student debt cancellation, and what the best arguments are against means testing student debt reform. How should Briahna handle the “Harvard” question: e.g. why did you choose to go to an elite, expensive school? Why are liberals alighting with Laura Ingram and Mitt Romney on student debt cancellation? Are Democrats intentionally dangling 10k of debt cancellation because they know that’s a better deal (for banks) than extending the moratorium? And why is no one talking about usurious interest rates?

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Bernie 2020 Deputy Campaign Manager Ari Rabin-Havt is back to discuss his new tell-all book about the 2020 campaign: The Fighting Soul: On The Road With Bernie Sanders. The book is well timed to speculation about Bernie running in 2024, and concerns voiced by many progressives that he didn’t take the movement far enough. I asked Ari about a potential Bernie run, the Congressional Progressive Caucus endorsement of Nina Turner’s corporate opponent Shontel Brown, and whether the left has been too easy on Bernie — rationalizing his inflexibility as an inextricable part of his admirable consistency. Also, Ari dishes on Facebook’s attempts to control the sitting senator’s messaging, how Bernie’s Facebook page was killed by the algorithm, and why he once had to secretly dispose of towels soaked in Bernie’s blood.

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Briahna speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the relationship between billionaires and the media. Will Elon Musk buying Twitter benefit the platform, or are free speech advocates overly optimistic about the valence of his prospective influence? How did Glenn safeguard editorial independence as he co-founded The Intercept with eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s funding, and what happened when that independence lapsed? What does Glenn make of the recent Vanity Fair piece alleging that Peter Thiel is attempting to fund the “post left,” and does one need to be consciously “bought off” to advance the interests of tech billionaires? Are the incentives set by the algorithm enough to lead even the best intentioned person astray? Also, we discuss the recent controversy over Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz’s viral article about Libs of TikTok. What does Glenn make of arguments that he’s the one who doxxed the account owner, not Taylor? And what does he make of accusations that he is unfairly targeting Taylor for criticism?

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This week, Briahna spoke to Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant about the rash of Starbucks coffee locations unionizing around the country, why the Staten Island Amazon unionization effort was successful, the problem with some professional organizers, Chris Smalls’ Tucker Carlson appearance, the difference between DSA and Socialist Alternative, how and why Kshama stays accountable to Socialist Alternative (and how the left could keep the squad accountable), whether the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s endorsement of Shontel Brown was the final straw for leftists hoping to change the Democratic party from with in, Socialist Alternative’s position on Russia/Ukraine, and more. It’s a rich, deeply reflective conversation, and you’re going to want to listen through to the end.

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Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls joins the podcast to discuss the Staten Island Amazon unionization victory, recent controversy over his Tucker Carlson appearance, the online dust-up with AOC, why Staten Island was successful when Bessemer, AL wasn’t, the problem with “professional” organizers, and more.

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This week, Briahna speaks to climate scientists and activists Peter Kalmus & Rose Abramoff about what to do when marching is not enough. Both were involved in a direct action event that resulted in their arrests earlier this month, and are encouraging a turn to non violent direct action as a way to push world-saving climate reforms. I asked them whether they feel groups like Sunrise that emerged as super radical have ultimately helped to cover for the Biden administration’s failures, whether strategic property damage falls within the “non violent” category of activities, what the latest IPCC report warns, extreme Don’t Look Up moments from the mainstream media, and whether there’s finally some willingness in the mainstream to criticize Biden. It’s a climate episode that will inspire you, not depress you.

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This week, Briahna spoke to two progressive congressional candidates hoping to make a difference in Northern Virginia & Washington DC — Ally Dalsimer & Rev. Wendy Hamilton respectively. Hamilton, formerly Andrew Yang’s Director of Spiritual Outreach, is hoping to unseat Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has been DC’s House Delegate since 1991. Ally Dalsimer, an environmental activist, is hoping to unseat Gerald Connolly, who has been occuping his seat in the 11th district since 2009. Briahna asked the candidates not only what it will take to win, but whether they’ve considered how to overcome disaffection for electoralism on the left, and why anyone should commit their hard earned dollars to a congressional campaign when so may elected progressives have been disappointing as of late. Also, Briahna asked how can the left hold their candidates accountable — using as an example the tension between Jamaal Bowman and the DSA. Do organizations influence candidates or do they kowtow to them?

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We’ve edited down last Thursday’s Callin/YouTube live stream with Gray Zone journalist Max Blumenthal for your listening pleasure. We felt this was mandatory listening. We hope you agree.

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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and long time truth teller Chris Hedges sits down with Briahna for an intimate conversation about the recent purging of his RT show On Contact from YouTube, what to make of online criticism AOC received for “stealing valor” from the successful Amazon unionization effort, the limits of electoralism, and why he still fights despite it all. Briahna asks Hedges to respond to Ro Khanna’s apparent surprise that esteemed public intellectuals like Hedges and Cornel West are not invited onto mainstream news outlets, and he even responds to his first ever clip from The View. The two spar over the relevance of social media to progressive movements, and have a solemn conversation about the personal risks of fighting for what you believe in.

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On this week’s free episode, Briahna asks CA Representative Ro Khanna about his recent online dust up with Max Blumenthal over Ukraine, what ethical standard the left should adopt for disseminating weapons to other countries, whether the US played any role in the Ukraine/Russia conflict, what he thinks of the RT ban, why he disagrees with AOC’s argument that Biden has not done enough, why Biden doesn’t support student debt cancellation, what Biden has done to “meet the moment,” his 2028 presidential ambitions and more. You’re not going to want to miss this. Support interviews like this by subscribing at http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast.

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Briahna speaks with Joe Cirincione, distinguished fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington, D.C & former president of The Ploughshares Fund, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution, about the cold hard facts of hot nuclear war. How is the security of “mutually assured destruction” being undermined by the manufacture of “mini” nukes? How does one morally justify the United States sending weapons to Ukraine? What is the litmus test for US intervention, and how is the ongoing brinkmanship between nuclear powers not a version of the classic Star Trek episode A Taste of Armageddon, in which citizens are killed via cold calculations in order to justify political concessions? How many deaths have to occur before inevitable concessions are made?

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This week, Briahna spoke to National Affairs correspondent for the Nation & associate editor of The Capital Times John Nichols about his latest book, Coronavirus Criminals & Pandemic Profiteers. An account of how elected leadership & the pharmaceutical industry failed to prevent preventable deaths, the book serves as a blueprint for a Pecora commission for the Covid era. But who should we be mad at now that Trump & Cuomo are out of office? Why is Tucker Carlson leading the charge on criticizing big pharma greed rather than elected progressives? How do we achieve accountability when our institutional memory is so short that 2020 feels like ancient history?

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This week, Briahna asks experts pointed, pragmatic questions about how to nationalize the energy sector. With the public discourse centered on high gas prices and the climate crisis is looming bigger than ever, it seems odd that the left is silent on a solution that could deliver big benefits to direct consumers and, well, everyone who enjoys a habitable earth. What does the Tennessee Valley Authority teach us about state-owned energy projects? What should we learn from the Obama-era nationalization of GM? We’ve done before, other countries, like Sweden, do it all the time, so why is the idea of “nationalization” such a bete noir — especially among the left? Matt Bruenig, returning to the podcast, is the founder of the People’s Policy Project think tank. Johanna Bozuwa, co-manager of the climate and energy program at Democracy Collaborative, has written a detailed paper on how we can actually “nationalize this.” 

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This week, Briahna speaks to journalist & activist Abby Martin about the spate of left media censorship that’s occurred over the past few weeks. RT America, Russia’s 24/7 English-language news channel, has been shuttered — presumably because the cost of sanctions on Russia made it difficult to sustain, while RT has been banned entirely in Europe. Over 600 episodes of the show Abby hosted for 3 years at RT have been wiped from the internet, along with shows by other RT hosts like Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges & Lee Camp. Even The Hill was barred from YouTube last week, suggesting even corporate-backed news outlets aren’t safe. Abby breaks down what happened, how left media can survive under capitalism, accusations of bias against Russia TV, her advocacy for Palestine rights, and what American media is getting wrong about Ukraine.

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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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