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This week's guests break down all you need to know about last week's Supreme Court oral arguments on the Mississippi abortion case that's posed to overturn Roe v. Wade & Planned Parenthood vs. Casey. Professor Eric Segall of Georgia State College of Law returns to the podcast to weigh in on remarks made during oral arguments that challenged the constitutionality of the right to choose. He's joined by Professor Mary Ziegler from Florida State University College of Law -- a historian who specializes in the legal history of reproduction, the family, sexuality, & the Constitution. The pair debate Supreme Court reform, the value of judicial review, the "backlash" argument that Roe was too much too soon, whether pinning abortion rights to viability was a mistake, and much much more. It's a level of legal analysis you'll find few other places.

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Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend).

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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In this week's long overdue pop culture episode, Brie chats with her two favorite cultural critics about Twitter the backlash to Leslie Lee III's observation that "white people love the Beatles." Why, exactly, did that post launch a thousand quote tweets? The new Beatles documentary, Get Back, has ignited a conversation about who gets to define good art, the negative side effects of hegemonic fandom, and whether the Beatles' legacy holds up. Trevor Beaulieu and Brie also discuss Dem trying to make Pete/Kamala 2024 happen, nepotism charges against the Harris brood, and fashion -- a subject near and dear to T.'s heart.

Find Leslie's podcast Struggle Session here. Find Trevor's podcast Champagne Sharks here.

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Briahna speaks with Batya Ungar-Sargon, Deputy Opinion Editor of Newsweek & author of a provocative new book titled Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy. A self-described "former woke," Batya is now skeptical of left media culture that feels increasingly elite & distant from journalisms working class roots. But while Brie & Batya agree on mainstream media's deficits, they disagree on the extent to which "wokeness" itself is the problem. They debate intersectionality, defund the police, free college, AOC, left immigration policy, & more. We've been saying this a lot recently, but this is a good one. Thank you for supporting Bad Faith and enabling us to do substantive, in person interviews like this one.

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Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend).

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Extremely good vibes in this Thanksgiving episode with former NAACP president, Maryland gubernatorial candidate, professor, and most importantly, Bernie Bro, Ben Jealous. Sometimes it's just nice to let the conversation follow a great conversationalist, and this week, the chat covers the biographical, racial identity, the merits of "defund" as a slogan, Ben's voting rights advocacy and why Biden's dragging his feet on filibuster reform, and a former gubernatorial candidates insights on what Democrats did wrong in Virginia. Like I said, the vibes are immaculate. Happy turkey day. Consider subscribing so Brie isn't constantly worried about subscriber numbers & producer Ben doesn't have to edit holiday episodes.

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This week, Brie digs deeper into some broader themes that emerged from the Kyle Rittenhouse discourse. How productive is the "white supremacist" descriptor attached to not just Kyle, but to any number of actors associated with conservative politics. Even if it's accurate, does a maximalist view of white supremacy undermine the potency or rhetorical relevance of the term? Is it unnecessarily divisive? Or is the negative reaction to the term evidence that we're not talking about white supremacy enough? Briahna is joined by Zaid Jilani, journalist and author at Inquire More substack, who recently wrote an article which, among other things, questioned the the wisdom of squad members describing Rittenhouse as "white supremacist." Irami Osei-Frimpong provides a counterpoint: arguing that the path to racial equality requires an unflinching commitment to racial reeducation where whites aren't "coddled", and what he describes as white cultural deficits are interrogated. It's a passionate conversation with no punches pulled. A must listen.

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Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend).

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

This week, public defender & commentator for the Law Crime Network Olayemi Olurin returns to Bad Faith to discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and how the media's selective marshaling of facts has led to a divide not just between the political right and the left, but among left commentators. Olurin walks us through the facts of the case, the charges, and the evidentiary burden the prosecutor must meet, before delving into accusations of judicial bias and prosecutorial malfeasance. Finally, Brie and Olay spend the last 30 minutes of the podcast trying to parse the extent to which their politics are informing their opinion on whether Rittenhouse behaved reasonably. Would they stand by the standard being applied if an armed BLM supporter had been chased by right-wing protestors? If presented with this fact pattern on a law school exam, absent politics, would Brie choose to argue self defense, or manslaughter? Does Matt Orfela's video change things? And, in the course of defending Rittenhouse, did Adam Corolla unwittingly prove that Rittenhouse did not, in fact, act in self defense?

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This week, Brie broke down everything you need to know about inflation, the supply chain crisis, and Larry Summers with economist and senior fellow at the Jain Family Institute, Claudia Sahm. Sahm addresses the Biden administration's bad messaging around the link between the COVID stimulus & inflation, opines on whether Buttigieg can be blamed for the supply chain crisis, and weighs in on how Larry Summers manages to fail up as a professional wrong person year after year, administration after administration. Twitter spent last week joking about an MSNBC story on inflation using, as a peg, a large family with atypical dairy needs. This week, Bad Faith assures you that there's no need to cry over milk -- spilt or otherwise. Stay until the end for Brie's personal, never before shared, Larry Summers story.

Claudia's newsletter can be found at https://stayathomemacro.substack.com/

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This week. Brie talks climate with David Wallace-Wells, New York Magazine Editor at Large and author of The Uninhabitable Earth -- one of the most sobering climate reads out there. Wallace-Wells helps Brie unpack what exactly is in the infrastructure bills with respect to climate, and asks whether AOC's claim that "America's back" at the COP 26 climate conference is a wee bit premature. Brie & Wallace-Wells also discuss what is and isn't being achieved at the Glasgow climate conference, whether climate goals are reachable in the absence of any global accountability mechanism, and the case climate reparations. What does the global north owe the global south, and is there any way the global north will pay absent pitchforks and revolution? Finally, we close out this week's public episode with an interview with one of the climate protestors who famously blocked Joe Manchin's Maserati last week. Kidus Girma, fresh off a two week hunger strike, talks climate strategy for the future, and what parties eager to prevent the end of the world as we know it can do.

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This week, Brie speaks with cultural critic & author Thomas Chatterton Williams about his latest book, Self Portrait in Black & White: Unlearning Race. You may know him as one of the authors of the infamous Harpers letter on cancel culture, or from controversy surrounding his takes on hip hop culture from his first book. But in this wide reaching, intimate conversation, Brie and Thomas confront what it means to be "culturally Black," and whether, per Thomas' thesis, he's right to want to be an "ex" Black man. Does ones choice in partner affect their "racial authenticity?" Is Rachel Dolezal a model for how we should perform racial fluidity? What's the line between pride in ones cultural identity and performing the kind of "race craft" that can create a brand of "cultural whiteness" that shores up white supremacy?

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Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend).

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Brie sits down in person with author and podcaster Andrew Sullivan to continue a conversation they started on his Dishcast podcast last month. After discussing the value of intra-ideological exchange, the two debate the existence of structural barriers to equality, the definition and value of critical race theory, equity vs. equality, and whether facial neutrality obscures substantive inequity in our legal system, or system of governance, and more. It's an extremely spirited, extremely good faith debate. Full video of this episode to be posted to Bad Faith YouTube. Subscribe so as not to miss it.

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Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend).

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).