We think of Franklin is the doddery dude flying a kite in a 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 Isaacakson on the I-Heart radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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 Carmichaelante

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 Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcasts.

New from Embedded.

Who gets to compete as a woman? This question came up in ugly form at the Paris Olympics, but it's not new.

If she runs like a man and talks like a man, is she a man?

Here about the long history of sex testing women athletes on Tested, a new series from

CBC and NPR's Embedded Podcast.

Listen to all episodes on the I Heart Radio app,

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