There's momentum in an endorsement, even if you don't agree on the importance of newspapers

The future is not ours -- and that's good news. Losing our world power status will let us focus on problems at home

Who needs white or black smoke when you can get a text message?

The doctors predict the worst and my thoughts turn to the roasting pan. How oddly we behave at such moments

Be careful what you wish for tonight. Seventy percent of lottery winners are financially ruined within seven years

A Las Vegas-based casino has launched the first fully legal poker website in the United States

Megaevents are expensive, dirty and disruptive. What can be done?

I'm concerned he's wasting his college years in front of a screen -- but is it just a generational difference?

Rolf Potts goes to Las Vegas with $5 in his pocket, discovers the Mystical High Church of Luck -- and ends up losing $100.

Mitt Romney embodies casino capitalism. Why won't the Democrats say so?

Defenders of state lotteries claim that playing these games is merely entertainment. Numbers tell a different story

Health crisis could be looming as fans, prostitutes descend on South Africa and officials block safe-sex handouts

Morality, international law and the odds of drawing an inside straight -- Congress revisits the ever-popular topic of Internet gambling.