Lawrence O'Donnell has worked on political campaigns and as a Senate staffer; he turned that Washington know-how into prime time glory as a writer for The West Wing. With Super Tuesday looming, Kurt Andersen asks O’Donnell about the quality every successful candidate -- real or ...

As the Writers Guild of America enters the fourth month of its strike, Kurt checks in with union members in Hollywood and New York. If “pencils down” means pencils down, just what exactly are they doing with their time? We find out from David Milch,

In late January, 500 federal agents swooped down on art collections in southern California with warrants. The alleged crimes? The possession of smuggled art objects, looted mostly from Asian and Native American sites. Thomas Hoving, a former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and a keen ...

Synesthesia causes people to hear music -– or see letters or numbers -– in color. Neuroscience is beginning to unravel what’s going on in the brains of people with this cerebral phenomenon, but hasn’t yet explained why the genetic mutation exists. V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center ...

Andy Palacio –- a major star in Belize -– was a cultural ambassador of the Garifuna ethnic minority. He died suddenly in late January, at age 47. Palacio visited Studio 360 last July to perform songs from his album Watina, which went on to many ...

Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective perform "Watina" in Studio 360.