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America’s gambling problem

Terry Rozier of the Miami Heat has built a respectable NBA career, averaging about 20 points per game some years. In all likelihood, though, the Miami Heat point guard will now be remembered less for what he did on the court than as another data point in how runaway sports betting is ...

The Boston Globe on the implications of new US sanctions against Russia

Like the one-sided bromance it always was, the Trump-Putin relationship is officially on the rocks — for now at least — with the US president declaring the first sanctions of his administration on Russia’s two largest oil companies. It’s a new and important milestone in the nearly ...

Broken windows policy belongs at the top

The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing. The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is owned by the American people, not any current inhabitant. It's true that other presidents have ...

A bad bet

In 2018, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a federal law banning sports gambling, thus allowing individual states to decide whether to allow it, or not. It didn't take a genius to predict what might happen, especially when politicians can find new sources of revenue beyond income, ...

Three strange paths to not thinking about you-know-who

Are you, like me, kind of freaking out a little bit? Do masked men patrol your city streets, snatching people up and throwing them into vans headed for overcrowded detention centers where they will be held incommunicado and pressured to sign self-deportation orders that abrogate their rights ...

Trump’s Mar-a-White House

The building's facade is gone this morning — an ugly gash reminiscent of the smoldering Pentagon on 9/11. This disfigurement is not the act of terrorists or foreign foes. It's the work of our president. The East Wing of the White House, which has housed the visitors center, the office of the ...