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Armed with detailed intelligence regarding gamblers' behavior, International Game Technology's designers can tailor each new slot machine to appeal to a specific type of player. Photo: Todd B.…

Angry and frustrated, American voters went to the polls in November 2010 to take back their country. Just as they had done in 2008. And 2006. And repeatedly for decades,…

If theres one thing I learned in graduate school, its that the poet Philip Larkin was right. (They fuck you up, your mum and dad, / They may not mean to, but they do.) At the time, I was a…

On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he will face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen. A former senior executive at the National Security Agency, the government’s electronic-espionage service, he is accused, in essence, of being an enemy of the state.