A new book suggests that prohibition—of opium in China, gambling in Japan, alcohol in early 20th-century America—created modern mafias https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/03/19/its-strictly-business-the-enduring-allure-of-mafiosi-in-culture?taid=69c040e7227d8400018b5751&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=voante
