Behind the News: The Greed Driving US Politics w/ Andrew Cockburn

About this episode

Andrew Cockburn discusses the greed at the heart of US politics and Hadas Thier explores crypto in the age of Trump.

Andrew Cockburn, author of Washington Is Burning , examines “the spectacular greed at the heart of the nation’s political system.” Hadas Thier then discusses crypto in the age of Trump. Read Hadas’s article for Jacobin : https://jacobin.com/2026/04/crypto-trump-etfs-stablecoins-regulation/ Behind the News , hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

People in this episode

Host: Doug Henwood

Guest: Andrew Cockburn

Topics covered

• US politics
• greed
• crypto
• Trump
• economics
• politics

Keywords

• US politics
• greed
• crypto
• Trump
• economics
• politics
• Andrew Cockburn
• Hadas Thier

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jacobin

Books & works: Washington Is Burning

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