In this issue: McKay Coppins’s recap of a year experimenting with life as a sports gambler, and how deregulation turned betting into a $170 billion-dollar industry in less than a decade. Caitlin Dickerson’s profile of a mixed-status family that chose to move from the Bronx to Mexico, rather than wait for immigration reform from the Trump administration. The power-thirsty AI data centers that want to guzzle America’s energy. The forgotten women who flew a cumulative 60 million miles on non-combat missions during WWII. And Tom Nichols on the GOP’s Nazi problem.
Plus: Jeffrey Goldberg on the lack of accountability in the Trump administration, a year after the Signalgate scandal. What getting hit by lightning does to the body and mind. Colm Tóibín’s review of a classic novel from Barcelona in the last days of Franco. Why self-driving cars crash. And the latest installment of The Atlantic’s The Writer’s Way, featuring Gary Shteyngart in J. M. Coetzee’s Cape Town, South Africa.
Read these, and more, in the April issue of The Atlantic.
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