Episode 484 Promo - Can the Left Learn From Zohran? (w/ Ross Barkan)
Release Date: 06/23/2025
Episode 487 Promo - Elite Panic (w/ David Sirota)
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to instantly and our entire premium episode library: Bernie 2020 speechwriter and founder of The Lever David Sirota returns to Bad Faith to confront a quickly emerging consensus among centrist politicos: "we were right all along." Now that the energy is behind a charming Socialist mayoral candidate, are all rushing to offer explanations for why Zohran Mamdani won that downplay his substantive politics and elide the fact that, for years, they have supported candidates who are the antithesis of Zohran, all while claiming that a move to the center is the only way to win. Sirota, who has...
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Episode 486 - Too Little Too Late? (w/ Alex Thompson)
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to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: Axios National Political Correspondent & co-author of Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again with Jake Tapper Alex Thompson joins Bad Faith to discuss detailing the Biden administration's coverup of the President's declining health and cognitive ability. Alex takes hard questions about Tapper's complicity in the coverup, why he extended anonymity to various sources, and why he chose not to focus on . Subscribe to for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith...
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Episode 485 BONUS EPISODE: Have Your Cake & Eat #MeToo (w/ Lindsey Boylan)
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The first victim of Andrew Cuomo's serial harassment to come forward, former aide to the Governor Lindsey Boylan, takes a break from canvassing to join Bad Faith to remind the audience why no one should rank Cuomo. She explains why the Democratic Party has a crisis of credibility as a consequence of selectively weaponizing the #metoo movement for political ends, and Briahna shares her own tale of workplace harassment. Subscribe to for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on and . Produced by . Theme by Nick Thorburn (@).
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Episode 484 Promo - Can the Left Learn From Zohran? (w/ Ross Barkan)
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to instantly and our entire premium episode library: Journalist & author of Ross Barkan returns to Bad Faith to discuss with Brie his tight coverage of the New York City mayoral race. Barkan worked closely with socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani back when Zohran managed Ross' 2017 State Senate campaign, and he can offer unique insight into how Mamdani has managed to surge to the top of the polls against corrupt, billionaire-backed sex pest and former governor Andrew Cuomo. Also discussed: what it means to run a good campaign, what we might expect to see on election day, and ....
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Episode 483 - "Woke" Academia vs. the New Red Scare (w/ Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly)
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to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: Professor of African-American Studies, scholar of political economy and historical sociology, and author of : Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States Charisse Burden-Stelly returns to Bad Faith , the media backlash to the L.A. protests, the new Red Scare, and what history tells us about how to fight back. She also weighs on on why neoliberal pundits from Jake Tapper to Zadie Smith have been attacking the paradigm of "oppressed vs. oppressor," and Subscribe to for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith...
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Episode 482 Promo - Jogging Through WWIII (w/ Abby Martin)
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to instantly and our entire premium episode library: Journalist Abby Martin returns to Bad Faith to discuss Israel's bombing of Iran, the hypocrisy of the "antiwar" Trump right receiving pushback from the Tucker Carlson wing of the party, Zohran's NYC mayoral debate performance & what his possible victory means for the left, & Trump's military parade. Subscribe to for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on and .
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Episode 480 - Towards a New U.N. (w/ Craig Mokhiber)
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to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: Craig Mokhiber, international human rights law specialist who stepped down from his post as director of the New York office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights after October 7th, returns to Bad Faith to discuss the Rafah massacre in which dozens of Palestinians were killed by the IDF while waiting for aid, the Gaza Tribunal's Sarajevo Conference in which legal scholars, human rights experts, journalists, and survivors pushed a civil society-led initiative for accountability for Israel; and the potential for U.N. reform now...
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[UNLOCKED] Episode 475 - Conservative Economist Fired Over Palestine (w/ Glenn Loury)
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The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, Glenn Loury after he was critical of Israel's actions in Gaza. The cancelation followed an appearance from fellow Brown professor and Israeli historian Omar Bartov on his podcast, during which Bartov offered an analysis of the Gaza genocide that reflected international consensus on Israeli violations of international law. Professor Loury joins Briahna Joy Gray for a must-watch two hour discussion in which Loury reflects on his career as a Black conservative, Ta-Nehesi Coates' book The Message, and the fact that his own Blackness informs...
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Episode 481 Promo - Leaving The Democratic Party (w/ Francesca Fiorentini)
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to instantly and our entire premium episode library: Journalist, comedian, and host of The Bitchuation Room Francesca Fiorentini joins Bad Faith on the heels of breaking news that because it was too mean to Joe Biden. After recovering from the absurdity of Jean-Pierre’s grift, Briahna and Francesca discuss Fran’s increasing openness to third parties, fissures on the left over Force the Vote, and whether the left can be united around a 2028 candidate and Subscribe to for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on and .
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Episode 480 - Towards a New U.N. (w/ Craig Mokhiber)
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to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: Craig Mokhiber, international human rights law specialist who stepped down from his post as director of the New York office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights after October 7th, returns to Bad Faith to discuss the Rafah massacre in which dozens of Palestinians were killed by the IDF while waiting for aid, the Gaza Tribunal's Sarajevo Conference in which legal scholars, human rights experts, journalists, and survivors pushed a civil society-led initiative for accountability for Israel; and the potential for U.N. reform ....
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Journalist & author of CUOMO: Return of the Dark Prince Ross Barkan returns to Bad Faith to discuss with Brie his tight coverage of the New York City mayoral race. Barkan worked closely with socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani back when Zohran managed Ross' 2017 State Senate campaign, and he can offer unique insight into how Mamdani has managed to surge to the top of the polls against corrupt, billionaire-backed sex pest and former governor Andrew Cuomo. Also discussed: what it means to run a good campaign, what we might expect to see on election day, and what the left can learn from Zohran no matter the outcome.
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