29 Episoade

  1. The Birth of McCarthyism from American Experience Presents

    Publicat: 21.05.2025

  2. An architecture mystery from Antiques Roadshow Detours

    Publicat: 14.05.2025

  3. How to sue the government, and win from NPR's Throughline

    Publicat: 09.04.2025

  4. Why do some parts of government work better than others?

    Publicat: 02.04.2025

  5. Should we be nostalgic for machine politics?

    Publicat: 26.03.2025

  6. Why does sports betting feel different?

    Publicat: 19.03.2025

  7. Part 8: The Other Massachusetts Miracle

    Publicat: 12.03.2025

  8. Part 7: The Dirtiest Race in the Commonwealth

    Publicat: 05.03.2025

  9. Part 6: The Game Dreams Are Made Of

    Publicat: 26.02.2025

  10. Part 5: The Cherry Sheets

    Publicat: 19.02.2025

  11. Part 4: The Last Mafia Boss of Boston

    Publicat: 12.02.2025

  12. Part 3: Have You Played Your Number?

    Publicat: 05.02.2025

  13. Part 2: The Lottery Czar

    Publicat: 29.01.2025

  14. Part 1: The Instant Ticket

    Publicat: 29.01.2025

  15. Introducing: Scratch & Win

    Publicat: 22.01.2025

  16. A note from The Big Dig team

    Publicat: 12.06.2024

  17. Introducing: What Is Owed?

    Publicat: 29.02.2024

  18. Introducing: Detours from Antiques Roadshow

    Publicat: 29.01.2024

  19. Introducing: The Frontline Dispatch

    Publicat: 03.01.2024

  20. Part 9: Hearts and Minds

    Publicat: 15.11.2023

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Never in American history has it been so easy to gamble, legally at least. We’ve got casinos, sports betting, online poker, keno — but it was all made possible by state lotteries, which brought gambling out of the shadows and into the public square — into the government itself.  “Scratch & Win” follows the unlikely rise of America’s most successful lottery. We begin in 1970s Boston, with state bureaucrats going toe to toe with mafia bookmakers, and each other, as they struggle to launch the state's greatest innovation: the scratch ticket. But the story reaches all the way to the present moment. How do we feel about the gambling industry that lotteries helped summon into being? And should the state be in this business at all?  “Scratch & Win” is made by the Peabody Award-winning team behind “The Big Dig,” produced by GBH News and distributed by PRX. --------------------------- Credits: Host and scriptwriter: Ian Coss Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins Producers: Isabel Hibbard and Ian Coss Story Editor: Lacy Roberts Editorial Advisor: Jen McKim Fact Checkers: Ryan Alderman and Isabel Hibbard Scoring and Music Supervision: Ian Coss Graphic Design: Bill Miller Project Manager: Meiqian He

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