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Jacob Silverman on Cryptocurrency’s Shadiest Dealings Under Trump

On this episode of The Nation Podcast, Jacob Silverman on how the cryptocurrency industry continues to evade regulation.

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Jacob Silverman on Cryptocurrency’s Shadiest Dealings Under Trump | The Nation Podcast
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On this episode of The Nation Podcast, Jacob Silverman joins the show to discuss how the cryptocurrency industry has long evaded regulation, and how it’s now deeply enmeshed with the Trump administration’s most corrupt dealings. Silverman's feature, “Coin-Operated: The Crypto Industry’s Takeover of American Politics,” appears in the June issue of The Nation.

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On this episode of The Nation Podcast, Jacob Silverman joins the show to discuss how the cryptocurrency industry has long evaded regulation, and how it’s now deeply enmeshed with the Trump administration’s most corrupt dealings. Silverman’s feature, “Coin-Operated: The Crypto Industry’s Takeover of American Politics,” appears in the June issue of The Nation.

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Our Fifty States of Disunion and Who Could Secede | The Nation Podcast
byThe Nation Magazine

The term “the nation”—as it refers to the country—has a relatively recent history in American political rhetoric. Until the Civil War, politicians more commonly used “the Union” or “the Republic.” That changed with Abraham Lincoln, who referenced “the nation” five times in his 1863 Gettysburg Address. Two years later, in July 1865, the first issue of our magazine was published.

For our 160th Anniversary issue, we called on fifty of our best writers and artists to depict the current national landscape: what’s being gutted, steamrolled, and eviscerated, and what some of us are doing to keep the national project afloat. Contributor Richard Kreitner joins us to discuss the monumental task of putting this issue together, the history and future of secession, and more.

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D.D. Guttenplan

D.D. Guttenplan is editor of The Nation and host of The Nation Podcast. His books include American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, The Nation: A Biography and The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority.

Jacob Silverman

Jacob Silverman is the author of Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection and the coauthor of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. He is working on a book about Silicon Valley and the political right.

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