A series of strange and violent deaths rocked Osage County, Oklahoma a century ago.

Sisters Rita, Mini, Anna and their mother Lizzie all left behind lucrative rights to the oil beneath Osage land,

while lawman Tom White was horrified by the chilling plot he uncovered.

Join me, Tim Harford, host of the Corscht Retails Podcast, for my new two-part on the Osage Killings,

the story behind the book and film Killers of the Flower Moon.

Both episodes are available now, wherever you get your podcasts.

Pushkin.

There's a place in our world where the doubtful things go.

Lies and hoaxes and conspiracy theories, boxes of this stuff,

tottering stacks of files, full of dubious claims and facts that don't check.

This spring, in the second season of my podcast, The Last Archive, I'm heading down there.

My name is Jill LePore. I'm a historian at Harvard and a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Over the last few years, I've been troubled by some pretty big questions about our present.

Why is it so hard for us to agree on what's true?

Why does it feel so impossible to know anything anymore?

So I started this podcast, The Last Archive, to find answers, to trace a history.

Last season, the podcast took the form of a murder mystery, a who'd done it,

an investigation into the question, who killed truth?

A lot of history has happened since then, 2020, the year to end all years,

and now 2021, with an insurrection, an impeachment, and a mass vaccination campaign,

everything just keeps seeming so unbelievable.

So this season, I'm taking on a new mystery.

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