Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I was just thinking about how in a few days, Rush will begin their new tour. That in itself is amazing: if you had told me a couple of years...

I was reading an opinion piece in the Boston Globe yesterday. It was written by Steven Peljovich, a guy who owns a restaurant. It's a ve...

The annual Reporters Without Borders  (RSF) World Press Freedom Index just came out, and Norway was #1, just as it was last year. Explaining...

When I was growing up, people were a lot more patient than they are now. I know that's a generality, but based on what I've seen, th...

If you had told me a year ago that I would be seeing Rush reunite, I doubt I would have believed it. Yes, Geddy and Alex had performed at a ...

When I was on the radio in the 60s and 70s, the Federal Communications Commission was a major presence in our lives. Back then, FCC inspecto...

[Note: part of this post was written before the president decided unilaterally to bomb Iran. But as you will see, in some ways, it makes my ...