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McKay Coppins is an author and staff writer for The Atlantic, and he's covered everything from the importance of attending a Trump rally to sports competitions arranged by cartels.

His journalism has won the Aldo Beckman Award from the White House Correspondents Association and the Wilbur Award for Religion Journalism.

And his recent book Romney, A Reckoning, which came out a couple of years ago, was universally lauded by everyone from The Guardian, the New Yorker, and the New York Times.

And McKay keeps plugging it away at trying to understand the fundamentals of American life now.

And he recently published a piece in the Atlantic titled, Sucker, My Year as a Degenerate Gambler.

Well, this article comes at a critical time because back in 2018, a Supreme Court ruling cleared the way

for sports betting in this country and the business immediately exploded. Combined the excitement

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