Outside the Beltway

Does encouraging binge watching make sense for Netflix?

The Justice Department thinks police should be able to search the smart phones of anyone arrested for anything.

A step up from The Colbert Report.

I’m going to put in a good word for my son Josh’s new album “Shame of Tones,” a parody compilation based on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

Staff Sergeant William Guarnere, made famous by the “Band of Brothers” miniseries, has died aged 90.

Would your cable bill be cheaper if you could just subscribe to the channels you wanted to watch?

The broadcast networks want to operate under the same FCC guidelines as the cable networks. And they should.

John McCain is taking a break from advocating yet another war in the Middle East to make war against cable television companies.

A year old, seconds-long, scene from a show on HBO has apparently become the latest cause for outrage.

Americans are ridiculously fat and getting fatter by the nanosecond.

HBO’s Game of Thrones is violent and full of sex. Is it too much?

[FAIR WARNING: SPOILERS]

The vetting process for a Vice-Presidential running mate will likely be very different with memories of the Sarah Palin debacle fresh in everyone’s mind.

Dear Bill Maher and Alexandra Pelosi: The plural of anecdote is not data.

The DC government’s incompetence knows no bounds.

Doug Feith’s replacement is prettier and softer spoken.

Jeff Jacoby claims that marriage cannot be redefined.

Beck heads to the internet.

Al Jazeera English is kicking the butts of the American news networks on the Egypt story. Why?

A new survey shows that political ideology leads to different television viewing habits. This shouldn’t be surprising.

Changing economic realities led to a role reversal: television is where you turn for smart entertainment, whereas the movies have become lowbrow.

Sarah Palin’s decision to jump to the defense of “Doctor” Laura Schlessinger has many Republicans confused as to what her plans for the future are.

Should black people quit using the N-word to set an example for white folk?

Intel Dump’s Phil Carter is the editor of a new legal group blog for Slate called Convictions.