In 1924 Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought out a miracle. He went to a backwoods resort in rural Georgia called Warm Springs to swim in its "miracle" waters so that he might walk again. Infantile Paralysis or Polio (as we call it today) had left him paralyzed from the waist down....

Free speech. Yah I got it. I love it. This country is founded on it.

But does that mean that the hateful rantings of a pitiable and mentally deranged person should be given full access to the airwaves?

I question why the Today show or any show would...

There is no doubt that war, for any soldier, is a life-changing experience. But for many of the soldiers fighting in Iraq, potential traumatic brain injuries (TBI's) will cause changes that portend to be far more dramatic. For these soldiers, life will never be the same. Their return to civilian...

When you write about Sudan words like death, destruction, starvation, devastation and heartbreak fill the page... you rarely get to use words like hope.

Over the weekend John Garang was killed in a helicopter crash over Sudan. For 21 years he was the leader of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army,...

Over last two years I have been blessed with the good fortune to be writing a screenplay about the Lost Boys and Girls of the Sudan.

Whenever I feel that hope is in too short supply and that we are just too damaged as people -- I think of...

Is Karl Rove, George Bush’s Mama Rose?

Mama Rose was the monster of a stage mother to the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee so brilliantly captured in the musical “Gypsy.”

A recent Vanity Fair article profiling Rove mentions the suicide of his mother. Mama Rose was also abandoned by her...