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In this episode, we speak to Kenneth P. Vogel about sports gambling in the US today. Vogel is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, where he covers the intersection of money, influence and politics. He has covered politics and government at all levels, from small-town cop shops and school boards to statehouses, Congress and the presidential campaign trail. He has reported for Politico, various regional newspapers, and The Center for Public Integrity in Washington. He is the author of “Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp — on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics”, which chronicles the characters and motivations behind the explosion of money in American politics after the Supreme Court’s 2010 historic “Citizens United” decision. As Vogel’s reporting on sports gambling shows, since 2018, when the Supreme Court struck down a law that had previously prohibited gambling in all but two American states, we have entered an era of legalized sports betting and as a result, there have been a host of societal changes. So, please join me as we learn from Ken about the state of legalized sports gambling in the US today, the importance of smartphones and geo-location technology in online betting, the impact legalization is having on Native American groups, and even the bizarre behavior of some gamblers on the Staten Island Ferry after New Jersey legalized sports gambling, but New York did not…
