Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

To say the least, it's been an exciting (some would say bizarre) eleven days since Donald Trump took office.  We've seen him engage ...

I was reading the morning newspaper today, and noticed an article about eager Trump supporters heading for the inauguration.  Okay fine, the...

A note to those who have kindly read my blog this year:  if you were expecting some political commentary, I'm saving that for the new ye...

I wanted to say a few words about the War on Hanukkah, and yes that really is a thing.  Yesterday, I went to Dana-Farber, a Boston-area hosp...

Back in 1649, long before there was a United States, and long before our Founding Fathers created the Bill of Rights, a merchant from Hollan...

Yesterday, I was on Twitter having what I thought was a courteous conversation with a conservative from a red state. We were exchanging our ...

I wasn't going to spend an entire blog post on my personal life-- I mean, who would be interested in that?  I'm not a celebrity (I...