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Amos Barshad on Legalized Sports Betting

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Lever depiction of sports mascots promoting a sports betting initiative in Missouri (AP photo by Summer Ballentine)

 

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Lever: The Gambling Industry’s Cynical Play For Your Vote

Lever (10/24/24)

This week on CounterSpin: Passed by a whisker in Missouri on November 5, legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it affect states, communities, people? Our guest wrote in-depth on the question ahead of the election. Journalist Amos Barshad is senior enterprise reporter for the Lever, and author of the book No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World, from Abrams Press. We hear from him on this week's show.

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Trump's nominees and a Nazi march.

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