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What does Gen Z dating look like today? There’s “talking to someone.” “Hanging out.” “Situationships.” There is practically an index of Gen Z terminology to describe dating someone without implying actual commitment.

Dating apps are making it harder to make meaningful connections.

Modern slot machine parlors have sophisticated methods of milking less affluent gamblers.

Cartoon by Pat Byrnes By that spring, Alex Kearns, a twenty-year-old student at the University of Nebraska, had been using Robinhood for about two years. The app had permitted him to trade options just months after he opened his account. Kearns grew up in Naperville, Illinois, with his sister and his parents. His father is an I.T. professional at a financial-services firm. The family was close. Kearns was known as an anxious but positive young man who played trombone in the high-school band, re...