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.
I believe in my bones that failing to identify a person's bad-faith arguments is the missing ingredient in our deteriorating, endlessly confusing, and ultimately futile 21st century cultural and political discourse. Those on the left – far more prone to earnestly believe in causes and to (foolishly) assume
Millions of hours of podcasts and cable news segments and countless thousands of Very Serious Thinkpieces have been dedicated to helping Americans better understand the so-called debt ceiling debate, and none of it – not one word – has been honest. One can't have an honest conversation about such
Logging on and hurting the feelings of total strangers with invective and deeply personal insults is as natural as waking up and pouring a cup of coffee in this age of profound alienation. It's what many of us do when we plug into our various social media platforms,
I'm finding it difficult not to respect the most radicalized House Republicans these days. You don't "gotta hand it to them," but I wouldn't blame you if you did. In their ritualistic, days-long humiliation of Kevin McCarthy, the hard-right faction
Our horrifying machine-run future coming into focus with alarming speed, artificial intelligence mimicking human behavior, people ceding their agency to sleek little robots strapped to their bodies and crowding their homes: This is life during the final, desperate gasps of humanity as we've known it. It won&
Fascism and Bad Faith
Pro-democracy forces can't allow the entire world to be red-pilled
The American gun violence nightmare, worsened every day by right-wing lawmakers and judges while we become numb to the horrors it has wrought, has taken the form of a never-ending gaslighting campaign. Some of that gaslighting is expertly wielded by those who defend unfettered access to weapons of
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American conservatives couldn't say what they wanted to say about the prisoner exchange that brought Brittney Griner home
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We have no recourse against the power of a radicalized Supreme Court. So we're left to dream dark dreams.
Political issues are easier to digest when you start with the assumption that all politics are equally good and bad. And it's easier to cover politics in the grand tradition of toothless American both-sides journalism if neither right nor left is right or wrong about anything and
Technocratic policymaking is the best, most efficient way to get over on the average American voter because explaining such terribly boring technical and political machinations will sooner induce a coma than inspire someone to vote. Scurrying behind the curtain of politics and altering the playing field is the surest way
I would like to think the red wave that would have ushered post-democratic authoritarianism failed to swamp the United States because enough people saw through the right wing's bad faith, or, at the very least, finally internalized the irreversible harm the right could do to the republic