For decades the mafia had New York City in a stranglehold with law enforcement

seemingly powerless to intervene.

It uses terror to extort people.

But the murder of Carmie Galante marked the beginning of the end.

It sent the message that we can prosecute these people.

Listen to law and order criminal justice System on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

We think of Franklin is the Dodrig dude flying a kite in the rain.

Benjamin Franklin is our subject for a new season with Walter Isickson.

He's the most successful self-made business person in America.

A printer, a scientist, a founding father, but maybe not the guy we think we know.

Franklin casts his lot on the side of revolution, and it's another thing that splits the family apart.

Listen to On Benjamin Franklin with Walter Isaacson. It's another thing that splits the family apart.

Listen to On Benjamin Franklin with Walter Isaacson starting August 29th on the I-Heart

radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

I'm Ben Nadef Afri, host of the history show The Last Archive, and I want to tell you about a new series we're running in our feed.

It's called The Dead Line.

Six essays written and read by Jill Lepore, the New Yorker writer, American historian, and founding host of our show.

These are incredible essays on everything from the history of cryogenics

to the Silicon Valley Gospel of Disruption.

And at the end of each essay I interview to the Silicon Valley Gospel of Disruption.

And at the end of each essay, I interview Jill about her craft as a writer.

You can listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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