A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk ...

Randy Shilling went to public high school in Corpus Christi, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a petroleum engineering degree. For the first decade of his career, he lived in an ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Today's guest is the Niskanen Center's Brink Lindsey, whose connection to Reason magazine goes back decades and who for years worked at the Cato Institute. His new book is called The Permanent Problem ...

I took a 15-hour business-class flight from Los Angeles to Beijing with my toddler. We each had our own lie-flat seat, and there was plenty of space for my daughter to play. The in-flight meals were ...

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The ability to climb the economic ladder has been a hallmark of the American experience. Yet children born to low-earning parents in 1992 had a harder time moving into the middle class than the ...

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This is an age of mutinies. For more than a decade in America, they’ve come so thick and fast that they trip over one another: the Tea Party, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Resistance, the ...

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Windows 12 rumors are just that ... rumors. Even with rumors everywhere, the writing is on the wall. What could cause even more Windows users to migrate to Linux? Every so often, I have to ...

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, ...