Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast  Journalist Zaid Jilani joins Bad Faith to elaborate on his recent controversial criticisms of Matt Taibbi. Are leftists simply angry that they can't control where Taibbi's interests have taken his reporting? Or has Taibbi taken a reactionary approach in response to bad faith attacks from liberals -- and, if so, is he justified? Is the left...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Intercept columnist and New School professor Natasha Lennard weighs in on the campus battle over pro-Palestine speech and how claims of feeling "unsafe" by pro-Israel students are being used to ban calls for Palestinian liberation. Is the left simply reaping what it has sown in making arguments about speech-related violence on campus? Or are there ways to...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast  Labor journalist Hamilton Nolan joins Bad Faith to discuss the left's shifting attitude toward immigration with respect to the concerns about the impact of immigrant workers on domestic wages. Does defending domestic workers have to come at the expense of immigrants? And does the shift on this issue reflect a larger rightward shift among...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Middle East analyst and co-editor of Jadaliyya Mouin Rabbani joins Bad Faith to discuss his epic debate with politics streamer Destiny/Benny Morris, the post-World Central Kitchen "vibe shift" on Israel, and the gruesome revelation that Israel is using an AI program to generate "targets" to strike while they are at home with their families -- a.k.a. program...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast  In a conversation sprawling over two hours, friend of the pod and preeminent Gaza historian Norman Finkelstein returns to Bad Faith to unpack his recent debate with Twitch streamer Destiny (Steven Bonnell) and historian Benny Morris on Lex Fridman Podcast, the latest on the sexual assault allegations against Hamas, Norm's mother's experience...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Perennial favorite Katie Halper returns to Bad Faith to talk Rami Youseff's Pro-Palestine SNL speech, Steven A. Smith dunking on Hillary Clinton, and, of course, Israel's targeted attack on three humanitarian aid vehicles who were delivering much needed food aid to Gazans. Also discussed: Reports that Israel is threatening hostage families not to speak out, and the...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast  Documentarian Dan Cohen reports on what he learned on the ground in Haiti through interviews with politician, former police officer, and gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier. Chérizer has been smeared as a cannibal by Elon Musk and some western media outlets, but is the portrait of him as a revolutionary leader closer to the truth? Dan walks...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Unlike in 2020 & 2016, a prescriptive progressive economic agenda hasn't been thrust into mainstream consideration this election cycle. Rather, any talk of the economy has largely centered around questions of inflation: whether Biden is or isn't making it better, and whether leftists are overstating the cost of living struggles of working people. This week,...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast  2024 Presidential candidate and bestselling author Marianne Williamson returns to Bad Faith to explain why she unsuspended her campaign, what she makes of RFK’s success, and how her politics toward Israel bear on her approach to the crisis in Gaza. She reflects on past criticism from the left -- including Norm Finkelstein and RBN -- and...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast We're long overdue for an episode on the humanitarian crisis facing the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Clashes between armed groups, resource wars, a post-colonial legacy of foreign interference -- Jason Sterns, Assistant Professor of International Studies and founder of the Advisory Board of Congo Research Group, and Christoph Vogel, former UN Security Council...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    California Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) returns to Bad Faith to talk the TikTok ban, whether there’s evidence to support his and others claims of mass rape on 10/7, what happened in the California primary for Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat, and more. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur joins Bad Faith to talk his presidential campaign, where he thinks the left should look next now that it's over, and why the Uncommitted campaign is faring so much better than any single outsider candidate so far. And then, inevitably, we have the Force The Vote conversation that's been three years in the making, as we reflect on...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Electronic Intifada's Ali Abunimah joins Bad Faith to break down the latest in what some are calling the "mass rape hoax" -- a series of articles and reports that claim to prove a mass rape campaign occurred on October 7th based on circumstantial evidence and a few witnesses with significant credibility issues. Ali walks us through last...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Staff writer at Arizona Luminaria & author of The Case for Open Borders John Washington joins Bad Faith to make -- what else? -- the case for open borders. It seems the left and liberals alike have been largely silent on what they affirmatively believe should be done to address the immigration backlog at the border. We are able to say what we don't like about...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Succession/The Good Place/Watchmen writer Cord Jefferson's adaptation of Percival Everett's novel Erasure is getting Oscar buzz, but does American Fiction deserve the hype? Writers Jason England and Bertrand Cooper join director/actor/writer Mtume Gant to discuss. Do meaningful departures from the book indicate a disinterest in working class...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former Ohio Representative and youngest mayor of a major American city Dennis Kucinich joins Bad Faith to talk about his campaign to return to the House representing Cleveland's 7th district and his tenure as campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Brie asks whether RFK Jr. and Kucinich parted ways over Israel, and the pair debate immigration takes -- but not...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast  2024 Presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West returns to Bad Faith to discuss the recent controversy surrounding his tweet offering prayers for the family of recently deceased Russian political prisoner Alexei Navalny, the perverse incentives built into left media, and why he's lost the "deep respect" he once held for Dr. Jill Stein. Are these...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Economist, public policy analyst, and Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on the prospect of a ceasefire, Biden’s decision to distance himself rhetorically from Netanyahu, and the shocking settler's conference in Jerusalem last weekend that’s making it difficult for Biden to sell the story that America and Israel have a shared two-state...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast  Author of The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut Benjamin Studebaker joins Bad Faith to explain why he thinks the solutions offered by the U.S. pundit class are selling little more than false hope and podcast subscriptions (with exceptions). What about our system makes the Democracy crisis "chronic," why should we not be...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Presidential candidate Dean Phillips (D-MN) joins Briahna on Bad Faith as the Biden campaign suffers one of its biggest blows: the release of the Hur special counsel report which exonerated the President from wrongdoing in the document case while indicting him as too senile to have acted with intention. Is this an opening for Phillips? Is he a younger version of...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    2024 Green Party Presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein weighs in on the "zombie candidates" still running in the Democratic Primary, Dr. Cornel West's switch from running as an independent to running on a new Justice for All party line, critiques that the Green Party isn't interested in "doing the work" between presidential election cycles,...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Host of Words to Win By, and Principal of ASO Communications, and political messenger extraordinaire Anat Shenker-Osorio joins Bad Faith to explain most why certain messages falter where others deliver. After conducting 3-4 focus groups a week for the last four years, she has real insights into what messaging works and what doesn't -- from "defund the police" to...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Economist, public policy analyst, and Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on the prospect of a ceasefire, Biden’s decision to distance himself rhetorically from Netanyahu, and the shocking settler's conference in Jerusalem last weekend that’s making it difficult for Biden to sell the story that America and Israel...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Intercept founding editor Jeremy Scahill joins Bad Faith to discuss the latest developments out of the war in Gaza: a bombshell CNN report on grave desecration, New York Times staff revolting over the crumbling sexual assault narrative, post-ICJ decision UNRWA defunding, escalation in Jordan, the IDF's West Bank hospital raid, and more. Subscribe to Bad...