How Gambling on Everything From Our Phones Became Normal
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In 2024, traders bet about $3.7 billion on a single prediction market about who would win the presidency, reviving a kind of wagering that had all but vanished from American life for most of a century. This is the story of how gambling went from a sin and a crime to something people do on their phones on everything from elections to the weather, without the public ever deciding it should.
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