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...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Lifelong labor activist and author Bill Fletcher Jr. joins Bad Faith to discuss the recent United Auto Workers endorsement of Joe Biden and what it means for the recent radicalism of the UAW under Shawn Fain's leadership. Of what significance is UAW's support of a ceasefire in Gaza in light of this endorsement, and how should a left that is...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Adam Johnson of Citations Needed -- a must-listen media-crit podcast -- joins Bad Faith to discuss the latest hasbara coming out of mainstream news outlets. He starts by breaking down his analysis of the different euphemisms used by major newspapers to describe Israeli vs. Palestinian deaths then moves on to discuss the "buffer zone," the recent on-air murder of a...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Current Affairs founder, author, and famously accurate predictor of the 2016 election Nathan J. Robinson returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on the state of the 2024 race, how he predicted John Fetterman's fall, & what he thinks will happen in November. Brie and Nathan spar on the issue of political litmus tests and whether Brie should take...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Senior Fellow for Aviation and Travel at the American Economic Liberties Project and former Editor at Consumer Reports Bill McGee returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on the Alaska Airlines flight whose emergency door blew off mid-flight. Is it a labor issue, a corporate greed issue, an anti-trust issue, or all three? What role did Nikki Haley play in lowering safety and...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton and Palestinian activist Omar Baddar return to Bad Faith to discuss Biden's unconstitutional bombing of Yemen, the broader context for the broadening regional war, and the latest from day two of the ICJ hearings, in which Israel attempted to defend it's 100 day siege of Gaza. Will growing public...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Norman Finkelstein is back to weigh in on billionaire Bill Ackman's attack on academic freedom and how it backfired colossally with accusations that his own wife committed worse plagiarism than Claudine Gay, whom he fought to oust from Harvard because she didn't crack down hard enough on anti-Zionist speech. The conversation broadens out into a two hour discourse on the...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Grayzone editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal joins Bad Faith to discuss his explosive reporting on the evidentiary failures of the New York Times' story on sexual violence in Gaza. He breaks down the inconsistencies in the Times' report, retractions from the family of an alleged victim, and the shaky credibility of witnesses. Then Max gives a...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Palestinian-American author, opinion columnist, and Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University in Beirut Rami Khouri joins Bad Faith to provide much needed background on how and why Arab nations are realigning in response to continued Israeli aggression in Gaza. Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis and others are part of what Khouri describes as an axis of...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Distinguished scholar on Jewish Studies at Dartmouth University Shaul Magid joins Bad Faith to discuss the history of Zionism, conflicts within the Jewish community among Jews of different diasporic and racial backgrounds, the relationship between Blacks and Jews, and the role radical politics has always played in influencing the terms of that...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Jewish Currents Editor-at-Large & Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY Peter Beinart joins Bad Faith to discuss his latest piece in which he takes on the media frenzy around allegations of Ivy League antisemitism, and asks why none of Harvard’s Israel experts have been invited to join the group convened to investigate said claims. Is it because none...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Author, physician, and trauma expert Gabor Maté joins Bad Faith to discuss how left disillusionment with Bernie Sanders style electoral movements, and Jewish disillusionment with Israel, are part of a painful yet positive progressive shift. He weighs in on 2024, Marianne & RFK Jr, holocaust trauma, and more. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Jewish Currents Editor-at-Large & Professor of Journalism and Political Science at CUNY Peter Beinart joins Bad Faith to discuss his latest piece in which he takes on the media frenzy around allegations of Ivy League antisemitism, and asks why none of Harvard’s Israel experts have been invited to join the group convened to investigate said...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Osgoode Hall Law School Assistant Professor Heidi Matthews set off a social media firestorm when she weighed in on accusations of sexual violence on October 7th which resurfaced over the course of last week. Drawing on her expertise in International criminal law, the global legal regulation of political violence & gender, she cautioned against the weaponization of...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Left-Twitter has been beefing over the question of "Bidenomics": Are left criticisms "fair" given metrics which show improvements to the economy? Are they bad faith attacks levied by opportunistic leftists who think Biden doing badly is "good for the left?" Or are people praising Biden's accomplishments simply putting their electoral...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast 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...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    You may know him from his viral questions posed to the heart of empire, but independent journalist Sam Husseini has much more to say than what’s allowed at State Department press briefings. On today's show, Sam argues that activists should focus on pressuring governments that are already willing to acknowledge Israel’s genocide in Gaza to...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast 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...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Ryan Grim, D.C. bureau chief at The Intercept, has done some of the most important reporting on the influence of AIPAC on the American political system. He joins Bad Faith to discuss the recent AIPAC pledge to devote $100 million to unseat the Squad following their calls for a ceasefire, and delve into the history of how AIPAC became so...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast 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...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Northwestern journalism professor Steven Thrasher gives Bad Faith access to his class on Manufacturing Consent, explaining what Noam Chomksy and Eduard Hermans’ classic work on media manipulation can teach us about how the media is treating the siege on Gaza. How are the five filters of editorial bias working to color the public’s perception...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast 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...

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    The foremost scholar on the Israel-Palestine conflict returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on why he refuses to condemn Hamas despite acknowledging the atrocities of October 7th and update the pod on the most recent hospital bombing. Dr. Norman Finkelstein also destroys Jake Tapper and Hilary Clinton's rationales for Israel's siege against the...