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This episode just confirms that the show has lost its way in season two. Can it find its way back?


These groups represent a time in music that no longer exists: When bands that would play to small niches today used to play to everyone who loved music.


Starting school before 8 a.m. doesn’t make medical or academic sense.


40 percent of the US’s full-time workers report that a typical week means 50 or more working hours


It’s much more complicated than a lack of information


The lava fountains have reached as high as 200 feet in the air.


“The Russian and Ukrainian peoples are practically one single people” — yikes.


A Russian tank was spotted with “For Donbas” painted on the side. That’s the region Putin insists he is not invading.


You don’t have to work. Listen to music.


Will avoiding the I-word make it easier for Putin to withdraw from Ukraine?


Is it time for Finland to join NATO?


The movie has some effective, unsettling images, but it’s also got an essentially meaningless story.


Researchers are hard at working trying to figure out how memory works, and they have some tantalizing clues.

Watch these shows over your long weekend — or any other weekends in your foreseeable future.


It takes “overwhelming evidence” to get the public outraged over abuse — but more and more, incidents get caught on tape