Salon

• Opus
  Where do you want to be at the end? Choose wisely!
• I Like to Watch: This fall's TV season comes in like a BBQ Pork Ravioli Bite and goes out like a bad case of indigestion, from Fox's "Fringe" to CBS's "The Mentalist"...
  BBQ Pork Ravioli Bites. Aside from ushering in the apocalypse, those words reflect our precipitous f...
• And the Buffy goes to ...
  Our fifth annual award to the most underappreciated show in all of TV land.
• Love and marriage
  At the Toronto Film Festival, Jonathan Demme returns to form and Peter Sollett explores mix-tape rom...
• Critics' Picks
  What you need to see, read, do this week: A sexpert's look at Sarah Palin, the exhilarating return o...

Slate Magazine

• Slate V:
  
• Treasury prepares to bail out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae....
  For the second day running, everyone focuses on the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Ma...
• McCain's annoying little fraud....
  (Pierre, S.D.) McCain would like everyone to think his campaign imploded last summer because of his ...
• How pro-life absolutism undermines family values....
  In the 1980s, the rising conservative movement tried to frame the pro-life cause as part of a broade...
• An economics mystery—why houses cost more in summer—has finally been solved....
  It's still a miserable year to be selling a house. In May, for example, U.S. house prices fell by 0....