This volume explores the topics relating to gambling by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these issues. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications. By evaluating divergent viewpoints, this allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills. Readers will evaluate how gambling should be viewed, what its economic and social implications are, how the U.S. government should treat it, and what the actual impacts are of online gambling. Essay sources include John Stossel, Harvard Crimson, Phyllis Schlafly, Shikha Dalmia, and Thomas E. McClusky.