The Appeal of Pinball to the Modern World

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A generation ago, pinball really was actually the dislikeable, worrisome, dangerous activity of the past. New York City completes a roundup of thousands of pinball machines each valued at about a hundred dollars. In South Carolina, there are still people lobbying the state to lift a ban on children playing pinball.

The country’s homophobes claim that homosexuality is a malign foreign import; in reality it was anti-LGBT groups from abroad who helped lay the ground for vicious new legislation. Starlink, a satellite-internet constellation, has given Ukraine a battlefield advantage; we ask why that has China’s army so concerned. And the unlikely resurgence of pinball, thanks to some canny marketing.

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