Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I'm going to do something that will surprise some of you:  I'm going to defend Donald Trump.  There was a video circulating online s...

For some reason, I got a number of new followers on Twitter this past week. Some came over because of a friendly exchange I had with Fox New...

There's a guy who stops by periodically to leave nasty comments on my blog.  I have no idea why he does it: I mean, if you don't lik...

It goes without saying that the man who shot at Republican members of Congress, while they practiced for a charity baseball game, was a disg...

I never thought I'd have to write these words, but then, I never thought I'd see a president like Mr. Trump, a man who thinks it...

As Mother's Day comes around again, I find myself wondering what my mother (of blessed memory) would say about the world of 2017.  I thi...

Every now and then, the lyrics of a song just resonate with me.  Sometimes, they remind me of an event that took place in my past:  don'...