Legal Sports Betting and Public Health
Legal Sports Betting and Public Health  
Podcast: The Brian Lehrer Show
Published On: Tue Apr 01 2025
Description: With the Final Four just ahead, Jonathan Cohen, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Senior Program Officer for American Institutions, Society, and the Public Good at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the author of Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling (Columbia Global Reports, 2025), talks about the explosive growth of legalized sports betting and its effect on public health, beyond the games and the money.