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For Sale, Your Browser History: Behavioral ad targeting, Web companies' favorite new way to invade your privacy, by Farhad Manjoo

Love You. Mean It: Actual sincerity might be on display at the Democratic convention, by John Dickerson

The Chick-fil-A Church: How "video venues" are helping megachurches franchise, by Andrew Park

Slate's Political Gabfest, with David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and Josh Levin. This week: Obama is in Hawaii, the Russians are in Georgia and Politics is dirty.

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the Beijing Olympics and "The Redeem Team," the too-famous-too-fast Seth Rogen and his new film, Pineapple Express, and the death of comedian Bernie Mac.

What's the Deal With Offshore Drilling? Will it do any good at all? By Jacob Leibenluft

The Death of Planned Obsolescence: Why today's gadgets keep getting better, at least until the battery dies, by Farhad Manjoo

It Takes a Hothead? Why does it take a cliché to draw attention to the problem of fathers' rights? By Dahlia Lithwick

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and William Saletan. This week: It's the end of the anthrax case, presidential politics and the China Olympics

A special treat for the dog days of summer: The Complete Dispatches From the R. Kelly Trial, read by the author, Josh Levin.

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

Wandering Through the Desert With Windows: Microsoft's strange, passive-aggressive "Mojave Experiment,” by Farhad Manjoo.

Turn Him Into a Snob: The Republican effort to depict Obama as a pompous, out-of-touch snob, by Jeff Greenfield

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: John McCain accuses Barack Obama of playing the race card, Obama's law school exams are under review, and the Justice Department faces charges of illegal hiring

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Joss Whedon’s new web-only musical show “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”, Starbucks’ abrupt move to shutter a sizable number of its stores in the United States and abroad, and Google’s newest challenger in the search field, Cuil.

Are Revolving Doors More Energy Efficient? What about the ones that turn automatically? By Jacob Leibenluft

Even Lamer Than Second Life: Google Lively, yet another pointless virtual world, by Farhad Manjoo

The Bauer of Suggestion: Our torture policy has deeper roots in Fox television than the Constitution, by Dahlia Lithwick

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: It's Barack to Iraq, the state of the presidential race, and John Edwards vs. the National Enquirer

Slate's Political Gabfest, with John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: It's Barack to Iraq, the state of the presidential race, and John Edwards vs. the National Enquirer

Pick a Lock, Any Lock: YouTube makes it easy to learn the finer points of breaking and entering—and locksmiths aren't happy, by Farhad Manjoo

The inaugural episode of Money Talks, a new podcast from the writers and editors of The Big Money, Slate's new business magazine that launches in September.

Things Are Not What They Stream: Have corporate-sponsored Internet pranks gone too far? By Farhad Manjoo

Situation Normal: What Generation Kill gets right about the invasion of Iraq, by Peter Maass