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.
Maybe you watched the January 6 Commission's first primetime presentation of the findings of their investigation into Republicans' failed 2021 coup, and maybe you felt your blood boil, and maybe you had to beat back dark thoughts spurred by the trauma of that dark day, and maybe
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Pretending the American left and LGBTQ folks are grooming and sexually exploiting kids is a recipe for murder.
In a ritualistic act or the purest self loathing, I track the news closely. I've done so for nearly twenty years. I doom scroll and click and read and doom scroll and click and read – over and over again until I become one with my despair. In the
Student debt cancelation is subject to a devilish two-pronged attack that might give it eternal life. Our $1.7 trillion in student loan debt is destined to be the Dracula of American politics. On one side stand generally well-meaning (mostly white) liberals who probably won't understand
Being an American parent in the early 21st century means standing over your child as she sleeps and trying desperately not to imagine her body torn apart by bullets shot from a machine designed specifically to kill humans. That's where I found myself Tuesday night after hours of
Welcome to the first Bad Faith Times question and answer session. It's truly a landmark event. Everyone is saying so. I'll do these every so often, depending on the #news and the impact of bad faith politics on current events. You can participate in these little
Thanks to every one of you committed doom scrollers for supporting Bad Faith Times over the past few weeks. Unfortunately for humanity but fortunately for me, there's quite a bit of interest in how bad-faith politics is poisoning our brains, and therefore the discourse. Last week I
The right can invent alternate political realities to their blackened hearts' content, but without judges to play their sly bad faith game, none of it matters. None of it has teeth. This is why the right wing for the better part of a half century has been singularly focused
Tucker Carlson doesn't really believe the Democratic Party is heading a vast plot to replace white Americans with highly-organized brown and black left-wing foot soldiers. Carlson does not believe the Democratic Party is hatching immigration policies designed to flood every corner of the nation with people
On Monday morning I engaged the world's leader in bad-faith politics and was promptly labeled an imbecile. Which made me laugh, along with everyone watching right-wing provocateur Glenn Greenwald melt down in an exchange with a fantasy football writer. Before we get into the nitty gritty
Fascism and Bad Faith
The unreality of Putin's monstrous war against Ukraine has found an audience in American right-wing circles
Elon Musk's Bad Faith
If you’re a man who’s into making death threats against women who don’t pay your pathetic ass the proper attention, man, you’re going to love Elon Musk’s Twitter. If your favorite pastime is telling a transgender person to kill themselves because they are an affront