Author: Briahna Joy Gray

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This week, author, political theorist, and professor of political science Corey Robin joins Bad Faith to unpack his recent article about how AI is disrupting how writing is taught across the country. The tech has gotten so good that it's nearly undetectable, and the temptation to cheat on at-home essays is making many teachers consider whether all essay writing should happen in class. But the trade-offs are obvious: Should limited class time be taken up by in-class essays? Is the pedological benefit of at-home essays worth losing dynamic, Socratic in-class learning? What are we trying to teach kids with longform writing assignments anyway? Should we lean in to technological help in writing the way we've all become accustomed to spellcheck? Didn't Captain Kirk teach us that rigging technology to help you ace a test isn't actually cheating at all? Is writing obsolete? Listen to this podcast instead of reading something to find out.

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The Grayzone's Anya Parampil joins Bad Faith fresh from her trip to South Africa for last month's BRICS summit. She weighs in on what Victoria Nuland was surprised she found there, and what it means for Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, & United Arab Emirates to have joined the economic alliance. She also applies her foreign policy chops to Vivek Ramaswamy's recent takes on Taiwan/China, and the state of the 2024 primary post-RFJ Jr.s Palestine plummet.

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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Conservative commentator Shermichael Singleton joins Bad Faith to weigh in on the GOP debates. Who were the winners and losers? Are we made into losers as Harvard Man Vivek Ramaswamy asks very-important-questions™ about climate change? Did Nikki Haley surprise us all? And will these debates get any of the candidates any closer to matching Trump's numbers?

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Two DSA members from different sides of an internal divide over the direction the organization should take -- Philip Locker and Scott Karolidis -- join Bad Faith to discuss the National DSA Convention that happened earlier this month. What's the status of resolutions to make DSA run like a political party? Can it hold squad members accountable? Should the organizational require ideological litmus tests? And will they endorse Cornel West?

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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Briahna is joined by Senegalese development economist Ndongo Samba Sylla, who focuses on Fair Trade, labor markets, social movements, democratic theory, and monetary sovereignty; and Alex Rubinstein, contributor to The Gray Zone, to discuss last month's coup in Niger, neo-colonialism, and the new "NATO" proxy war.

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Billy Honor of the New Georgia Project, a voter registration effort founded by Stacey Abrams, weighs in on whether the Democratic Party can convince Georgia voters to go to the polls after reneging on so many of the promises that motivated voters back in 2020. What has he been hearing from voters on the ground, and what is the role of voter advocacy orgs in pushing voters, in this case, largely Black and lower income voters, toward candidates that actually reflect their interests. What if their interests align more with, say Cornel West than Joe Biden?

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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Briahna talks with The Coup lead vocalist and director of Sorry to Bother You & I Am a Virgo Boots Riley about the writers' strike, how/whether art can advance movements, and whether he liked Barbie.

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HuffPo reporter Daniel Marans joins the show to discuss his new viral article detailing tough times for Justice Democrats. After laying off nearly half its staff, the future of Justice Democrats (and of the American left?) is unclear. Are JD's funding woes the result of a disorganized left? Or is the organization's choice to curry favor from superstars like AOC over grassroots donors the root of its problems? Would adversarial politics damn the Justice Dems, or is that the key to their survival? Marans has covered the left for years -- including sharing a beat with Brie back in the day -- so there's plenty to debate about the trajectory of the left as they've seen it, up close and personal.

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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    Writer Freddie deBoer returns to discuss his viral New York Magazine essay arguing that AOC is just a regular Democrat now, and the rabid response from mainstream journalist. Specifically, we walk through Eric Levitz's response at NY Mag, and break down how establishment media attempts to gaslight the left into lesser-of-two-evilism.

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Palestinian-American activist Omar Baddar joins Bad Faith for a point-by-point refutation of RFK Jr's views on Palestine, the conduct of the IDF, and what fellow Presidential candidate Marianne Williams has called "dated AIPAC talking points." In the wake of a controversial interview on the Jimmy Dore Show -- as well as Briahna's own showdown with RFK Jr. on Rising -- it's worth parsing what is and isn't true.

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