A prominent journalist lost nearly $10,000 gifted from his employer as an experiment to cover gambling in America and the pitfalls of the growing sports betting industry. The Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins penned a lengthy feature, “Sucker: My year as a degenerate gambler,” in which the suburban dad and practicing Mormon “prohibited from indulging in games of chance” was given $10,000 by the publication to wager during the 2025 NFL season. Since the cash belonged to The Atlantic, it did