Gambling has always preyed on people who want to use it to solve their financial woes. Sports betting apps and prediction markets join the coalition of evil tech corporations that use our phones to turbo-charge that impulse for a profit. We need a radical empathy for people who are hurt by gambling addiction, which I understand is in short supply on this issue.

Some will argue it could have been worse, that the Democratic senators who voted yes only did so after getting something from their Republican colleagues. But it also could have been so much better, and 11 Democratic senators voted no because they knew that was the case, and recognized that their constituents deserved better.