Danny Funt has been reporting on the gambling boom for The New Yorker, which has recently generated startling headlines, including the arrest of a former N.B.A. coach and the indictment of two M.L.B.

Funt moves between industry history, regulatory decisions, newsroom practices, and the experiences of bettors, alternating systems-level analysis with individual lives. Chapters tracing lobbying ...

Is there any better time of year to be a sports fan in the US? January and February are a veritable orgy of athletics: football playoffs, NBA games that kinda sorta start to matter, college men’s and ...

I loathe half-assed hit pieces, unless, of course, I’m the one writing them. Which brings me to the latest half-assed hit piece on the sports betting industry, which, I’m sorry to report, is ...

February 10, 2026 • Jenin Younes rose to prominence on the right by defending medical professionals like Jay Bhattacharya who claimed that they were being censored over opposition to vaccination and ...