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Every day, millions of sports bets are placed in the United States—on phones, at work, often while games are still unfolding. With the click of a button, gamblers can wager not only on who wins, but on nearly every moment in between.

For most of American history, this kind of gambling was illegal in much of the country, driven by fe...


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On December 31, The Washington Post carried the headline “Washington Monument illuminated on New Year’s Eve to mark country’s 250th.” The article described an installation that projected patriotic images o...


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Many families have a multigenerational line of work. Think of the Bushes (politics), the Rothschilds (banking), or the Gambinos (mob stuff).

In my family, the business is academia. My late father was a lifelong mathematics professor; his father, a college dean and theologian. On paper, it looks like the apples don’t fall far from the tree. But look closer, and big profe...


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It’s Monday, January 19. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today, the United States honors Martin Luther King Jr. Read King’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jonathan Eig in our pages, on the last speech the great American ever gave:


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In the last year, President Donald Trump has racked up impressive foreign policy achievements. He authorized the bombing run that decimated Iran’s nuclear program. His hardball diplomacy with Qatar and Turkey he...


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