Republicans and the US Presidential Race
Angry Boys
By Julia Baird
The Family Table Restaurant is a small, dingy diner in Atlantic, Iowa, the state known as the Hawkeye State, that claims to be the corn capital of the world. It sits opposite a gas station on a road leading through acres of cornfields, now razed to bristly rows and pale with frost, in what has been an unseasonably warm winter. Occasionally, people passing through pause to fill up on spicy ham
The Rise of the Sports Betting Industry
Caught in the Game
By Jonathan Horn
Like his brother, Reverend Tim Costello is an Essendon supporter. He was watching the game on television and it left a sour taste. “There’s no question that if the bets get big enough, people will start throwing games,” he tells me. “When there’s so much money at stake, the corruption follows inexorably. While gambling is a part of life, there’s a vice dimension that drops, compro