Author: Briahna Joy Gray

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This week, Briahna talks to frequent Rising guest Dr. Trita Parsi of the Quincy institute about Putin's meeting with President Xi and the potential paths to peace in Ukraine. Is the West actually indispensable to global peace? What does it mean if it's not? What should we make of the West's skepticism of a ceasefire in Ukraine? And is it really true that the only anti-war electeds are on the right?

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Briahna sits down with Carlos Cardona and Marcurius Byrd, the New Hampshire and South Carolina state directors for Marianne Williamson's 2024 campaign about what it would take for a progressive to win, and whether it's even possible given what we know about how the DNC put the finger on the scale in the last two Democratic primaries. What lessons were learned from how Bernie operated in South Carolina? Do the changes to the primary schedule improve Marianne's chances in New Hampshire? And should progressives invest emotionally if not financially in this race? An insider view of the campaign you wont get anywhere else.

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New York Times environmental journalist David Wallace-Wells returns to Bad Faith to discuss his latest article about the enormity of Biden's latest climate betrayal: an oil project in the arctic that severely undermines the much-touted gains of the Inflation Reduction Act. What does the left go next? Do they have even less leverage than they did in 2020, and would the presence of a real Democratic primary change that?

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Following Briahna's super viral interview with Bethany Mandel on Rising, America once again debated the meaning of "woke" and why it matters. This week on Bad Faith, Brie welcomes back Freddie deBoer, author of the recent Substack essay "Of Course You Know What 'Woke' Means," along with New Republic contributor Osita Nwanevu to dig in to the #discourse.

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Briahna recorded this episode with Matt Stoller last Friday as news was emerging about the failure of Silicon Valley Bank -- the 20th largest bank in the US. We discuss the roots of that crisis along with how antitrust factors into the disaster in East Palestine & prospective merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines. Finally, at the end of the episode, Briahna get's Stoller's take on Matt Taibbi's claim that the FTC's investigation into whether the Twitter Files disclosures compromised private user data is a witch hunt of sorts. We tackled a lot in this one. See you tonight on Callin to discuss.

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On this week's premium episode, Briahna presses Representative Ro Khanna about his vote condemning socialism, whether legislation proposed to address the crisis in East Palestine goes far enough, whether his endorsement of Biden's 2024 campaign is premature in light of more progressive-aligned entrants into the race, his thoughts on Sy Hersh's reporting that the US was behind the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, whether the US should support an independent UN investigation into the sabotage, and more.

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With new legislation being advanced in Congress that's ostensibly designed to address the regulatory failures that led to two Norfolk Southern train derailments in Ohio this year, it's important to understand the causes of that accident and what would authentically help. Glenn Kessler's Washington Post fact check along with some other mainstream coverage suggest that a narrative is emerging that limits the cause of the accident to just one issue -- overheating wheel bearings. Is there a risk that defining the cause narrowly will curb legislation that addresses more systemic problems, like meager staffing lax regulations for hazardous materials? David Sirota and The Lever have done the most comprehensive reporting to date re who is responsible for the crash. Together, we walk though Kessler's fact check, fact check it in return, and discuss the mainstream media disinformation campaign to punt blame.

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This week, Briahna interviewed Matt Taibbi about a narrow concern she's had with the Twitter files archive: Despite the obvious value that Matt and other twitter files reporters have created by exposing links between the intelligence agencies and online censorship, is it fair to characterize Twitter's bias as against the right and indifferent to the left given how little we know about which documents have been turned over by Elon Musk and why?  Unlike Musk, most whistleblowers are not the heads of the organizations they're informing on. Does Musk's investment in and control over Twitter demand more journalistic scrutiny? Is it possible to characterize the files reviewed so far without making broader claims about about the total archive that, at this point, can't be substantiated? Has there been sufficient inquiry into bias against the left, and has their been sufficient disclosure about the limitations Musk has put on the journalists who've been given access to the archive? It's a difficult and nuanced discussion. Let's debrief tonight on Callin.

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This might be the best conversation unpacking this week's student debt SCOTUS oral arguments you'll hear. Fordham Law professor Jed Shugerman returns to the pod and gets some healthy pushback from Student Borrower Protection Deputy Executive Director Persis Yu. The expertise on display here is extraordinary, as the two go back and forth over the Supreme Court's likely holding with respect to Biden's student debt policy based on a close reading of the oral arguments, and whether Jed's amicus brief, referenced by Kavanaugh during oral arguments, correctly raises concerns about an over-expansion of executive power. You won't want to miss this one.

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Briahna speaks to John Jay College Professor of Economics Christian Parenti about why the left should support the Republican-driven efforts to interrogate bias within the FBI & restrain its powers, the Sy Hersh article alleging US responsibility for the Nord Stream sabotage, the controversy around the Rage Against the War Machine anti-war rally, and more. A great interview with an intellectual who isn't afraid to dive deep into sensitive subjects that, nonetheless, are crucial for the left to work out.

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