Author: Briahna Joy Gray

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Independent journalist and producer of the documentary film Pistachio Wars Yasha Levine joins Bad Faith to discuss the billionaire couple that owns most of the water in California & how poor resource management has affected the devastating L.A. wildfires, before jumping into wider-ranging conversation on the state of left politics in the wake of the Bernie movement.

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Civil rights defense attorneys Michael Bloch and Ben White join Bad Faith to discuss the fatal beating of prisoner Robert Brooks at the Marcy Correctional Facility in New York and a similar case that their law firm Bloch & White is handling. How has advocacy for criminal justice reform changed since the BLM era, and to what extent did Democratic leadership fail the moment? Is there any optimism that liberals will recommit to the criminal justice promises they claimed to espouse during Trump's first term now that he's returning to the White House? Or does the decision of blue state liberals like NY Gov. Kathy Hochul to run to the right on these issues portend a further rightward drift over the next four years? And did the left bring this rightward shift on itself by not taking crime concerns seriously (à la Ana Kasparian's argument)? Or is something else at play?

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BreakThrough News journalist Eugene Puryear returns to Bad Faith to talk left opportunities under the Trump administration and respond to Pod Save America's insane 2028 presidential draft picks: A liberal fever dream and a lefty nightmare.

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This week Brie is joined by a stacked panel of journalists -- Irami Osei-Frimpong, Q Anthony Ali, &  Zaid Jilani -- to discuss the new divide on the right that emerged after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy defended the use of H1-B visas to import labor from India for tech jobs. Conservative opponents of these visa recipients find themselves making populist arguments decrying the downward pressure on American wages and the competitive disadvantage college debt causes for American workers. But at the same time, they engage in racist anti-Indian stereotyping. Are Elon and Vivek right about American culture making workers too apathetic and less competitive? Do Americans suffer from watching too much Saved by the Bell and not enough Whiplash (a real argument made by Vivek)? And does this discourse provide an opportunity for the left to provide a material anaysis that could start to draw right populists to the left?

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Senior staff writer at MintPress News Alan MacLeod joins Bad Faith to discuss an explosive report on the huge number of former Israeli intelligence officers currently working in U.S. media & tech, and how they influence U.S. news coverage of Israel's occupation of Palestine.

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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 2016 and 2020 right? Or is there a case to be made for the more centrist Democratic Party approach -- even now? Rarely is someone with as large a platform as Dr. Dyson willing to join a progressive podcast for a rich debate on progressive strategy, so this one is a real treat.

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Former Ohio State Senator and Bernie 2020 National Co-Chair Nina Turner returns to Bad Faith to discuss AOC's failure to capture the ranking chair of the House Oversight committee, and what the elected left's recent failures say about the "inside" strategy advanced by so much of the left in the wake of the Bernie 2020 campaign. Years after Force the Vote, is this the final straw for those who believed it was possible to push Democrats left? Nina Turner weighs in on her own evolution in this issue and more.

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Journalist and host of "Dispatches" at Breakthrough News Rania Khalek returns to Bad Faith to give a comprehensive rundown of the history that led to the ousting of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, explain how the West is rehabilitating former al-Qaeda member Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as a moderate, & discuss the implications for Israel's expansionist goals in the region. Stay to the end for Rania's assessment of AOC's failure to win a key committee chair, and what that means about the viability of the left's "inside" strategy.

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Princeton Professor and Civil War-era historian Matt Karp returns to Bad Faith to discuss how a third party won the White House by fighting for the ethical issue of the time: Slavery. How did Republicans break the duopoly to become a major party, and what lessons can the contemporary left learn from a historical example of a successful American third party? Also, Matt and Brie discuss the 2024 election, the post-Bernie moment, and what's next for the left.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of System Update Glenn Greenwald returns to Bad Faith to discuss the health insurance debate -- and public thirst -- that's arisen around alleged United Healthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione and the acquittal of Daniel Penny in the choking death of homeless subway rider Jordan Neely. Glenn also talks Assad's fall in Syria and addresses recent criticisms from Bad Faith guest Whitney Webb over his handling of the Snowden archive.

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