A Journal of Ideas

Gambling

Playing for Keeps

People forget that Nevada, purple today, was once a pretty bright shade of red. Then Harry Reid came along.

By Joan Walsh

Digital Capitalism’s War on Leisure

Market forces are invading the space for leisure. Defending it will require nothing less than a return to robust twentieth-century social democracy.

By Stuart Whatley

Rigged: The Shame of State-Run Lotteries

Because of the way lotteries work, the state depends not on the casual player, but on addicted gamblers. State-run lotteries are wrong because of two simple factors: who plays the lottery, and how they are encouraged to play.

By Jack Meserve