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It would be hard to believe that you never had the board game Monopoly in your home. It’s about as classic as they come. It was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 1998. At one point it was the best-selling game in the nation and has appeared in 105 countries and came in 37 languages. But Mary Pilon, author of The Monopolists, says it has a darkness no one notices. In an essay that was just published in The Atlantic, she says the game Monopoly is a lesson in racist segregation. Jesse Raiford was a realtor who created the most common version of the game in the 1930’s and based it off t...

History of Monopoly through 50 unique editions By Aine Givens of Stacker | History of Monopoly through 50 unique editions The Monopoly game has long been attributed to an unemployed man named Charles Darrow, who was said to have thought up the game in the early 1930s, sold it to the Parker Brothers in 1935, and made millions from his enormously successful creation. But wait—there’s more to this story. Mary Pilon, a former Wall Street Journal and New York Times reporter, discovered that it was a woman who was behind one of America’s most enduring pastimes. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Mag...

History of Monopoly through 50 unique editions By Aine Givens of Stacker | History of Monopoly through 50 unique editions The Monopoly game has long been attributed to an unemployed man named Charles Darrow, who was said to have thought up the game in the early 1930s, sold it to the Parker Brothers in 1935, and made millions from his enormously successful creation. But wait—there’s more to this story. Mary Pilon, a former Wall Street Journal and New York Times reporter, discovered that it was a woman who was behind one of America’s most enduring pastimes. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Mag...

How a real-life monopoly made Monopoly the world’s biggest board game Monopoly now accounts for nearly one-third of all global board game sales, largely thanks to Hasbro’s own expansion strategy. By: Mark Dent On New Year’s Eve, Monopoly celebrates the 85th anniversary of its patent.  Its publisher, Hasbro, can toast the occasion knowing that its prized board game is more popular than ever.  In 2013, Euromonitor pegged Monopoly’s annual revenues at ~$400m. By one estimate, that accounts for ~30% of all mass-market board game sales in the world — equivalent to Google’s share ...

hillary clinton. >> as i've stated, hillary clinton has a lot of explaining to do. we did not need to shift resources to hyper-focus on hillary clinton. i honestly do not believe this investigation was set up to go after hillary. i believe it shifted that way. >> he is planning on filing a federal complaint against the committee next month. now, according to a draft of that complaint obtained by msnbc chief legal correspondent ari melber, the major is claiming another reason he was fired and he says that's because he took time off to fulfill military service requirements. in an exclu...