Sucker: My year as a degenerate gambler by McKay Coppins
I think we had our laws on gambling right in a previous era. This is a tremendous read on the current reality of gambling in the states. One of the best reads I've had in a while:
Practically overnight, we took an ancient vice—long regarded as soul-rotting and civilizationally ruinous—put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong?