Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

Given how the visit of Pope Francis to the U.S. has dominated the headlines this past week, I would be remiss if I didn't make a few com...

In my experience, the most difficult words to say are "I'm sorry" or "I was wrong." For some reason, there's a h...

Like many in the social media universe, I was offended by what happened to Ahmed Mohamed.  If you haven't been following the story, he...

When I was a kid growing up in a suburb of Boston, Catholics were the majority faith in the city, and Protestants dominated the rest of the...

A few days ago, a college freshman from Duke University wrote an impassioned opinion piece about why he refused to read something his profes...

I could easily write yet another outraged post about something racist or sexist or xenophobic that one of the candidates said. I could easil...

Last night, I tweeted my opposition to Donald Trump's assertion that ALL undocumented immigrants must be deported, including their kids-...