politics
Nothing Makes Sense Anymore
The left owns sports. The right owns electric cars. None of it makes sense to a millennial.
Denny Carter
Denny Carter is the owner of Bad Faith Times. He's worked in journalism since 2006 as a writer and editor, both in sports and politics.
Bad Faith Times Podcast Episode 2: RFK Is Quite Bad
I very much felt like ranting about Robert Kennedy, Jr. and his stunningly bad-faith run for the White House in 2024. I wrote last month about RFK's bad-faith campaign and its various goals, and since then, he has cozied up to right-wing media personalities and
Dads, Give Up Your Authoritarian Impulse
A lot of Americans my age – folks born in the late 70s and early 80s – grew up in households ruled by fatherly authoritarian decree. Tough dads ruling the home with an iron fist certainly weren't exclusive to this time frame. Fathers who came of age in the early
Bad Faith Times Podcast: Episode 1
The people love their podcasts, so I figured I'd babble about my Bad Faith Times articles on a semi-frequent pod that will be available to paying BFT supporters. The first episode of the BFT pod, however, will be freely available to everyone. Maybe you'll be
Affirmative Action Is Dead. Long Live Affirmative Action.
John Roberts’ lifelong mission to erase the gains of the Civil Rights movement is nearly complete. Pay no mind to Roberts’ ruling in a recent case brought to the Supreme Court by the vast and insidious far-right legal project bent on nullifying the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Roberts
Oh Man, I'm Gonna Be Alive For That
The smoke from faraway wildfires had begun to waft into the Maryland suburbs in the dying light of a late-spring evening and my son wanted to know what the hell was going on. Eastern Canada is on fire, I told him, and the smoke from these unprecedented wildfires has
Capitalism Is Coming For Your Kids
Capital’s acceleration has recently taken on a more brutal but predictable phase
Elon Musk's Bad Faith
Elon Musk Is Running Interference For The Worst People In The World
Among the most darkly interesting parts of the Twitter experience during the Trump era – which I'll define as 2015 until the Big Boy is but a ghost haunting Mar-a-Lago – has been watching people become red pilled in real time. Otherwise normal folks with whom you'
politics
We Must Not Fall For the Bad Faith of RFK, Jr.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. is nothing but a Trojan horse for far-right politics.
politics
Bernie’s Gleaming Good Faith Exposes the Right’s Wretched Bad Faith
In a political landscape ruled by good faith, Bernie Sanders’ almost adorably earnest political messaging would draw MAGA freaks to him like a tractor beam. Sanders, after running the two most important presidential campaigns in American history, is still the only major political figure (politely) raging against our brutal, soulless
Yes, It Is Virtue Signaling
My belief that schoolchildren should not be mowed down by automatic weapon-wielding madmen is unshakeable, unwavering. Many describe my long-held stance against mass murder in U.S. schools as "resolute." I have never once considered I could be wrong on this issue, or that I need
Fascism and Bad Faith
The Heartbreaking Bad Faith of Roger Waters
There are elements of the left so disgusted by U.S. imperialism that they are willing to excuse other nations’ imperialistic ambitions or simply fail to see imperialism outside the American kind.