Episode 535 - Veterans Are the New Black: The Graham Platner Story (w/ Branko Marcetic, Matthew Hoh, & Yasmin Nair)
Release Date: 12/18/2025
Episode 568 Promo - Moral Tiers (w/ Adam Johnson)
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Co-host of Citations Needed Podcast & author of the newly released How to Sell a Genocide joins Bad Faith to apply his considerable media criticism talents to the current news cycle. He weighs in on Ezra Klein's sudden willingness to acknowledge the apartheid reality of Israel's occupation, and on the broader shift in the discourse around AIPAC donations and US funding for the Iron Dome. Are these signs of genuine political evolution, or is this hasbara intended to get Democrats back on board with America's increasingly unpopular ally? How complicit are AOC and Bernie Sanders in all this?...
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Episode 567 - Hijacking Anti-Zionism (w/ Norman Finkelstein)
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Political scientist, author, and one the foremost authorities on Gaza, Norman Finkelstein, returns to Bad Faith to debate how the left should mange the political right's dominance within the anti-Zionist, pro-Palestine movement. With huge platforms and enormous influence, figures like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Marjorie Taylor Greene have become the dominant Israel-critical voices in the United States. But what are the implications of that given that they embrace politics and conspiracy theories not shared by the left? What obligation do leftists like Norm have to distance themselves...
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Episode 566 Promo - Too Right Too early (w/ Jimmy Dore)
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Comedian and podcaster Jimmy Dore joins Bad Faith for the first time to discuss the entryist left's new-found willingness to criticize AOC and call out progressive electeds for their complicity with the corporate duopoly. Five years after Force the Vote, has AOC been "pushed" on her Iron Dome stance, or is she following a new permission structure around Israel funding established by Netanyahu himself? Jimmy & Brie open up about the psychological toll of Force The Vote, and whether it's still possible for the left to come back together around a genuinely transformational left figure. Also,...
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Episode 565 - The Black Capitalism Trap (w/ Dr. Jared Ball, Paul Prescod, & Q. Anthony Ali)
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Last week, a 20 minute debate about the merits of capitalism went mega viral, with Professor Marc Lamont Hill singularly defending socialism against a panel of co-hosts on the popular Joe Budden podcast. The former rapper and other panelists raised common objections to, and misunderstandings of, socialism, and exposed a particular commitment to Black capitalism that leftists must reckon with in order to change public consciousness. To that end, Morgan State professor of Africana & Media Studies & host of the I Mix What I Like! podcast, Dr. Jared Ball, Labor Notes staffer & Jacobin...
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Episode 564 Promo - Iran vs. The "Epstein Class" (w/ Mohammad Marandi)
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to instantly and our entire premium episode library: Iranian professor Mohammad Marandi joins Bad Faith to provide context against Iran that's sorely missing from mainstream news accounts. On Orientalism, what's likely to happen next, and . Subscribe to for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on and . Produced by . Theme by Nick Thorburn (@).
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Episode 536 - "Greater Israel" Does Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek)
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Lebanese-American journalist Rania Khalek, from BreakThrough News, reports from Beirut on Israel's territorial expansion into Lebanon, the mass displacement of 20% of the population, & how Israelis running the Gaza playbook yet again. Hot off her viral takedown of Piers Morgan, she breaks down the "will you condemn" double standard, unpacks the diverse opinions Lebanese have about Hezbollah & normalization with Israel, and debunks all the hasbara the Ellisons see fit to print. (Note that this was recorded before AOC statement re no longer supporting Iron Dome funding, and her...
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Episode 562 Promo - Rumble in the Jungle Primary (w/ Dr. Butch Ware)
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to instantly and our entire premium episode library: UC-Santa Barbara professor & 2024 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Dr. Butch Ware returns to Bad Faith to expose . Recent polling shows he's within striking distance of the top three Democratic candidates, who are all in a dead heat with 10 percent of the vote each. In California's "jungle primary" system, the top two go on to battle it out in final round, so Democrats are panicking about the prospect of two Republicans in the top two or -- even scarier -- a Green Party candidate making it to the final ballot. Professor...
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Episode 561 - Pedagogy of the Suppressed (w/ Chris Alfonso)
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As leftists, the algorithm isn't our friend. , it's wonderful to see the community expanding with figures like the TikTok Communist & pedological superstar known as Jean Paul Fartre, who has been going viral with Marxist breakdowns and explainers of current events. On this episode, we cover the right's reaction to the Cuba flotilla, harm reduction discourse, Chomsky's (alleged?) role as a member of the "compatible left," love on the left, whether one should identify as a Communist, & electoralism, & more. Subscribe to for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on...
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Episode 560 Promo - Inside The Manosphere (w/ Magdalene J. Taylor)
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to instantly and our entire premium episode library: Writer, cultural critic, & senior editor at Playboy Magdalene Taylor joins Bad Faith to discuss the viral new Manosphere documentary by Louis Theroux and . But first, a Very Millenial™ detour into the controversy following early-aughts Jezebel journalist Lindy West's new book Adult Braces: Are polyamorous relationships and ? Subscribe to for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on and . Produced by . Theme by Nick Thorburn (@).
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Episode 559 - Bad Words (w/ Susan Abulhawa)
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Last week, Palestinian-American author, scientist, and activist Susan Abulhawa made national headlines after the Zionist press attempted to tie her online posts criticizing Israel's apartheid and genocide with Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji as part of an attempted smear campaign: Rama had illustrated a short story that was part of a collection Abulhawa helped to compile and edit. In response to the hit-job on Rama, Zohran distanced himself from Abulhawa, calling her posts "reprehensible" and "patently unacceptable." But were they? And were leftists like Zohran and others strategically...
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Jacobin columnist Branko Marcetic, Green Party Senate candidate and veteran Matthew Hoh, & Current Affairs editor-at-large Yasmin Nair join Bad Faith to discuss the controversies surrounding Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner in light of a new Politico article that dives deep into his background. Branko has written a piece for Jacobin arguing that the press is only telling a partial story about the man that is more unflattering for being incomplete, while Yasmin has written that he embodies a kind of toxic masculinity that the left is fetishizing because it thinks it will help them win. Matthew provides an example of a different kind of veteran who has learned & narrativized his past service differently than Platner. The three engage in a rich conversation about whether the left should embrace this candidate, whether it necessarily condones US imperialism by fetishizing veteran candidates, and more broadly, whether it's too willing to abandon its morals in order to "win."
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