Today in Slate: August 30, 2010

Dear Prudence LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY. Most Read Articles LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY. The Slatest Noon Edition - Slate Magazine BP Faults Its Own Engineers in Internal Report Government Anti-Poverty Programs Serve One in Six Americans Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers Will Apple Reignite Interest in iPods? Don't Ridicule Glenn Beck's Tribute to MLK. Celebrate It. A Quarter of Zimbabwe's Population Has Fled to South Africa The Secret Internet Back Door That You Should Be Very Afraid Of Why Is True Blood Killing Off All Its Best Characters?
Monday, Aug. 30, 2010
hang up and listen Hang Up and Listen: The Can-Miss Prospect Edition Slate's sports podcast on Stephen Strasburg, Albert Pujols and Glenn Beck, and the Madden video-game series. Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca Aug.30, 2010, 4:19 PM ET the book club The Hunger Games The mesmerizing plots are enough to carry the entire series. Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and Nina Shen Rastogi Aug.30, 2010, 4:17 PM ET culturebox Muffy Adores Synchilla Taking the new Preppy Handbook for a test drive. Mark Oppenheimer Aug.30, 2010, 3:58 PM ET dear prudence Don't Go Breaking His Heart Prudie counsels a mother who yearns to know why her son got dumped--and other advice seekers. Aug.30, 2010, 2:55 PM ET recycled Must-Geek TV An Emmy for the first sitcom character with Asperger's: The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper. Paul Collins Aug.30, 2010, 2:10 PM ET The Slatest The Slatest: Afternoon Edition 14 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan over past three days; consumer spending gets a boost; WikiLeaks scandal looks to be about sex, not conspiracy; hurricane threatens eastern U.S. Aug.30, 2010, 12:12 PM ET fighting words White Fright Glenn Beck's rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected--the Waterworld of white self-pity. Christopher Hitchens Aug.30, 2010, 12:03 PM ET television In a Big Body, Dreams Stay With You How Huge and Fat Camp win our hearts. Troy Patterson Aug.30, 2010, 11:58 AM ET Skin and Scares Is True Blood Killing Itself Off? How many great characters have to die before the season is over? Jason Zinoman Aug.30, 2010, 11:28 AM ET doublex "Modern Love" Turned My Wife Into "Tragic Childless Woman" "Modern Love" revenge. Kembrew McLeod Aug.30, 2010, 11:22 AM ET tv club Mad Men, Season 4 Week 6: Is Don dead wood? Michael Agger, John Swansburg, and Julia Turner Aug.30, 2010, 11:11 AM ET frame game It's Good To Be King Don't ridicule Glenn Beck's tribute to MLK. Celebrate it. William Saletan Aug.30, 2010, 7:44 AM ET foreigners The Real Cost of the War in Iraq What seven years of fighting has done to American society. Anne Applebaum Aug.30, 2010, 6:46 AM ET books The Tolstoy of the Internet Era Jonathan Franzen's Freedom is an epic map of our imprisonment. Judith Shulevitz Aug.30, 2010, 6:45 AM ET Lean/Lock Play Lean/Lock Test your powers of political forecasting. Aug.30, 2010, 6:43 AM ET slate labs Welcome to Slate Labs Experiments with multimedia journalism. Aug.30, 2010, 6:42 AM ET	Advertisement
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