Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Academic, author, & ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson joins Bad Faith to debate the merits of voting for Kamala Harris specifically -- and Democrats more broadly -- as increasing numbers of the party membership acknowledge that they require significant reform after their 2024 electoral defeat. Are those claiming that "Bernie would have won" in...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and ordained minister Chris Hedges returns to Bad Fatih for a left-focused deep dive into what happened on election night, what's next for the left, and the role spirituality may play in creating a sense of community that some currently find in the Joe Rogan media environment. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode....

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast National Spokesperson for the Uncommitted campaign Hudhayfah Ahmad returns to Bad Faith along with independent journalist and founder of votepact.org Sam Husseini to address the recent controversy surrounding Middle East Eye's report that the Uncommitted campaign effectively "committed" itself to a narrow range of political action after it accepted...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast So, Trump won. And we've assembled some of my favorite leftists to unpack why. Host of the Katie Halper Show and co-host of Useful Idiots Katie Halper weighs in on the left's predictions about the impact Gaza might have on this election and takes down the mainstream media narratives that emerged immediately following Trump's win. Independent writer Zaid Jilani, who hails...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Professor of Journalism at Northwestern University Dr. Steven Thrasher returns to discuss how the fourth estate is failing Gaza, the suppression of students and future journalists for speaking out against the genocide, and how he's been personally targeted by his university for standing with students in their advocacy for Palestinian lives. Subscribe...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Renowned talk show host Tavis Smiley, formerly of BET Tonight & NPR's The Tavis Smiley Show, joins Bad Faith to give a firsthand account of the Democratic Party's attempt to bias his recent interview with Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein. Smiley provides new details as to the nature of the email from a Democratic Party affiliate who attempted to feed...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Palestinian-American activist, legal scholar, and human rights attorney Noura Erakat joins Bad Faith in a must-listen episode on the strategic benefits limits of the law in stopping a genocide, how to leverage electoral power to end U.S. aid to Israel, and why she isn't voting for Kamala Harris. Noura also weighs in for the first time on why she...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Political economist David Fields joins Bad Faith for a conversation that goes beyond housing policy to unpack the very roots of why the Democratic Party seems unable to provide basic improvements for working people -- even when they're in power. He clarifies the YIMBY vs. NIMBY debate, how YIMBYism has been appropriated by corporate developers, and how false economic...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Political scientist Aaron Good joins Bad Faith to discuss the deep state and his book "American Exception: Hegemony and the Tripartite State," in which he examines the relationship between the state, elite criminality, and U.S. hegemony. What is the "deep state," how has that term been misappropriated by the right, and how is the power of the deep...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Attorney, writer, and podcast host Esha K. joins Bad Faith for a deep dive into how the US government has used culture to surreptitiously influence the politics of Americans. From funding art styles through patronage at major museums to consulting on action movies to recruiting artists to do worldwide tours showcasing American "equality," the government's interest in...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Catherine Liu wrote the definitive case against the Professional Managerial Class -- a group of elite wage workers who tend to dominate media, politics, and other leadership positions due to their educational attainment and other class signifiers that set them apart from the rest of the working class. She has identified the PMC as a key obstacle to...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast From time to time there's an interview that fundamentally alters and enriches my understanding of how the world works. This is one of them. Professor of Economics at Denison University Fadhel Kaboub returns to Bad Faith to explain how developing Africa may be the key to the climate crisis as well as to the prosperity of a billion comrades on the continent -- but...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Independent UK journalist Richard Medhurst joins Bad Faith to reflect on the one year anniversary of October 7th. Medhurst has been one of the bravest and boldest advocates for Palestine over the last year, and was arrested under UK terror laws. He discusses his experience, his predictions for the next year of conflict, and how we got here: One year...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast UC Santa Barbara Professor and 2024 Green Party Vice Presidential nominee Dr. Butch Ware joins Bad Faith for an extensive conversation that includes behind-the-scenes insights into his viral interview on the Breakfast Club, why Ta-Nehisi Coates' CBS interview on Palestine has made such a splash, and how the Green Party plans to grow and win beyond the current campaign...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Wayne University scholar Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly -- better known as Dr. CBS -- returns to Bad Faith two years after offering up her predictions on what at 2024 Kamala run would look like. She offers her perspective on Kamala endorsements from the radical Black left, Jill Stein and Butch Ware's viral performance on The Breakfast Club, Ta-Nehisi...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Stephen Semler, Co-Founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI), a think tank that develops policies for the working class, returns to Bad Faith to talk about the latest bombshell from ProPublica, which revealed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken lied to Congress about Israel blocking aid to Gaza in order to avoid a disruption to the shipment of US weapons...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist Julia Doubleday joins Bad Faith to interrogate whether inconsistencies exist between the left’s commitment to universal healthcare and our willingness to criticize Democrats on a range of public safety failures, and the indifference from some on the left to the Biden administration’s declaration that Covid is "over" — even as multiple...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Middle Eastern history expert Dr. Assal Rad joins Bad Faith to talk about how international law, the Uncommited movement, and the fourth estate are failing to impose accountability on Israel as it escalates violence in the region. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former Socialist Seattle City Councilmember and founder of Workers Strike Back Kshama Sawant joins Bad Faith to download about the Harris/Trump debate and to provide a "fact check" on the Gaza misinformation included therein. Kshama also discusses the killing of American demonstrator Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, whom Kshama knew personally from her engagement in...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The labor organizer who led workers at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse to the first labor victory in the US against Amazon Christian Smalls returns to Bad Faith to discuss 2024 and labor's role in manufacturing consent for corporate candidates. The Amazon Labor Union co-founder weighs in on the claim that Biden-Harris has been the most "pro-union" administration of...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Duke Professor of Public Policy, Economics, & African American Studies William Darity Jr. is probably the most cited scholar on the issue of the racial wealth gap and reparations. So what does he make of Kamala's agenda for Black America and the state of reparations discourse, post-2020? With more and more Arab and Muslim voters threatening to...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Host of Sabby Sabs Sabrina Salvati returns to Bad Faith to break down AOC's very bad faith attack on Jill Stein and discuss the Democratic Party's ramped-up attacks on Greens in the wake of a disasterous-for-Kamala poll showing Muslim voters are looking to Stein as an alternative. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Vincent Bevins joins Bad Faith to discuss how to turn protests into revolutionary change. In If We Burn he analyzes over a dozen movements from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street to the protests in Hong Kong and Brazil to establish the conditions that...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist, Bernie 2020 speechwriter, and founder of The Lever David Sirota joins Bad Faith to talk his new podcast series Master Plan, which tracks the roots of American corruption from the infamous 70s era Powell memo to our present day. We discuss the DNC, Chris Cuomo's newfound interest in the corrupting power of money in politics, & Kamala's price capping plan...