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

Andrew Cockburn, author of Washington Is Burning (versobooks.com/products/3472-washington-is-bur…), 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: jacobin.com/2026/04/crypto-trump-etfs-stableco…

Behind the News (leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html), hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.