Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

Thanks to my years in media, I've met a lot of famous people, and not just musicians or TV and radio stars.  I've volunteered on sev...

At one of the universities where I used to teach, I had a gay colleague who had been with his partner for nearly three decades.  Although th...

First, an apology.  I normally write my blog on Saturday.  But that wasn't possible this past Saturday, because thanks to Southwest Airl...

All too often, online conversations about race in our polarized society deteriorate into accusations and name-calling. Commenters who have p...

This is a difficult post for me to write.  The Middle East is a complicated place, and people with far better credentials than mine have not...

I wasn't raised in an era where politicians went on TV or radio and insulted the President.  I'm not saying that it was a kinder, ge...

I am, by my own admission, a late-adopter: I am rarely the first to embrace a new technology, and I sincerely don't understand every lit...