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Bad Faith

Briahna Joy Gray 100 Episodes Aug 20, 2026

Bad Faith is a political podcast hosted by Briahna Joy Gray, former National Press Secretary for Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign. The show offers progressive commentary on current events, media criticism, and interviews with activists, journalists, and politicians. It aims to challenge mainstream narratives and provide a leftist perspective on American politics.

Episodes

Episode 603 - The Evolution of the Israel Lobby (w/ Eli Clifton)
Episode 603 - The Evolution of the Israel Lobby (w/ Eli Clifton) Aug 20, 2026 01:45:33 Co-author of Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible State craft joins Bad Faith to not only unpack the history of the Israel lobby and the roots of its enormous influence, but to diagnose how the lobby is evolving to respond to the fact that it has become a liability for politicians who receive its support. How does Clifton ex
Promo: Episode 602 Independnt's Day (w/ Sam Husseini)
Promo: Episode 602 Independnt's Day (w/ Sam Husseini) Aug 17, 2026 08:18 Subscribe at patreon.com/badfaithpodcast to catch Monday premium episodes every week. Watch all episodes at Bad Faith YouTube, and don't forget to like and subscribe Palestinian-American journalist Sam Husseini is known for his press conference confrontations and willingness to hold power to account. He recently went viral for confronting Chuck Schumer at an anti-corruption event over Israel's gen
Episode 601: Woke 1 vs "The Catharsis of Winning" (w/ F.D. Signifier)
Episode 601: Woke 1 vs "The Catharsis of Winning" (w/ F.D. Signifier) Aug 13, 2026 02:52:12 Prolific video essayist FD Signifier returns to Bad Faith Pod for a comprehensive analysis of the controversy surrounding left electeds' abandonment of 2020 era policy commitments and principles coined "Woke 1" by New York City Council member Chi Ossé, and made viral by AOC on the Sunday news last weekend. While members of the Platner left have argued that rejecting "woke one" simply means abandon
Promo: Episode 600 - Socialism or Technofeudalism (w/ Aaron Good & Tonery Rose)
Promo: Episode 600 - Socialism or Technofeudalism (w/ Aaron Good & Tonery Rose) Aug 10, 2026 07:07 This is a promo clip. Subscribe at patreon.com/badfaithpodcast to hear this full Monday episode. Watch all episodes at Bad Faith YouTube, and don't forget to like and subscribe. Dr. Trita Parsi, Executive VP of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and author behind the Trita Parsi Substack, returns to Bad Faith to provide an update on Israel's aggression in Iran, Gaza, & Lebanon. Import
Episode 599 - Does the Left's "Tea Party" Have Teeth? (w/ Oliver Larkin)
Episode 599 - Does the Left's "Tea Party" Have Teeth? (w/ Oliver Larkin) Aug 6, 2026 01:26:00 FL-25 Congressional candidate Oliver Larkin has been going viral over the past week for his exceptional skill at parrying bad faith corporate media questions about the DSA platform without throwing his principles under the bus. But when he's not shutting down Fox news interviews by pivoting to MAGA's Epstein-affiliated leader, he's fighting to win Debbie Wasserman Schutlz's old district and join t
Promo: Episode 598 - What's the Deal With ADOS? (w/ Yvette Carnell)
Promo: Episode 598 - What's the Deal With ADOS? (w/ Yvette Carnell) Aug 3, 2026 07:49 As progressives candidates have made electoral gains across the country over the past few weeks, Democrats are once again attempting to discredit the left by pointing to a poor showing with Black voters. For example, attempts have been made to ding Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed with this charge, even as polls show Black voters prefer him to his opponent, and the old "Bernie Bro" smear has even been tr
Episode 597 - What is the DSA For? (w/ Megan Romer)
Episode 597 - What is the DSA For? (w/ Megan Romer) Jul 30, 2026 01:26:15 DSA co-chair Maggie Romer joins Bad Faith in the wake of her viral Fox News appearance in which she was asked about DSA platform planks like abolishing the Senate, abolishing ICE, defunding the Pentagon, and prison abolition. Predictably, the right wing dragged the clip, but so did many on the "socialist left" who are, apparently, ashamed of the DSA platform voted on by its members. I ask Romer th
Promo: Episode 596 - The Grass is Greener (w/ Dr. Ashok Kumar)
Promo: Episode 596 - The Grass is Greener (w/ Dr. Ashok Kumar) Jul 27, 2026 07:28 Listen in full by subscribing to Bad Faith Patreon at patreon.com/badfaithpodcast. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Associate Professor of Political Economy & UK Green Party advocate Ashok Kumar joins Bad Faith to explain the successes of UK Greens, and weigh in on the insurgent DSA left and whether
Episode 595 - First They Came for the Communists (w/ Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly)
Episode 595 - First They Came for the Communists (w/ Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly) Jul 23, 2026 01:37:30 Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University & author of Black Scare Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, Charisse Burden-Stelly, returns to Bad Faith to discuss the new 100 page State Department report accusing American leftist groups of being part of a "sustained campaign of subversion" against the United States. This new Red-Scare blacklist
Promo: Episode 594 - Truth Translator (w/ Amanda Seales)
Promo: Episode 594 - Truth Translator (w/ Amanda Seales) Jul 20, 2026 08:35 Comedian, actor, and musician Amanda Seales returns to Bad Faith to talk about her new album and the value of revolutionary music, Jay Z's controversial freestyle about Colin Kaepernick, Graham Platner fall-out and the left's unsettled racial politics, & the state of love on the left. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagra
Episode 593 - There's Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men (w/ Magdalene J. Taylor)
Episode 593 - There's Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men (w/ Magdalene J. Taylor) Jul 16, 2026 01:09:52 Senior editor at Playboy, Magdalene J. Taylor, returns to Bad Faith to discuss her viral (and somewhat infamous) New York Times essay, "There's Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men." Responding to a trend toward "hetero-pessimism," or a cynical feeling that heterosexual relationships are beyond repair due largely to something 'wrong' with men, she offers a counter argument: There's never been a better t
Promo: Episode 592 - Lady Bunny Drags The Establishment (w/ Lady Bunny)
Promo: Episode 592 - Lady Bunny Drags The Establishment (w/ Lady Bunny) Jul 13, 2026 08:18 Legendary drag queen, comedian, & DJ featured in Sex and the City, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, & RuPaul's Drag Race, is the rare pop-culture maven willing to be loud and proud about her left-politics in the entertainment world. She weighs in on recent left wins and the future of left politics, the state of identity politics -- specifically as they play out in the LGBTQ communi

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