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/

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