Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I admit it:  I've never been a big fan of New Year's Eve.  For one thing, I'm not much of a party-goer, and I don't underst...

When I first began blogging in early 2015, I was taking an online course about political campaigns, and the professor (a campaign consultant...

First, a comment or two about politics; but it's related to something that has been bothering me:  famous men behaving badly.  Yesterday...

I was disappointed, but not surprised, that my Republican friends were almost gleeful about the accusations leveled by a female talk show ho...

This has been a truly bizarre month.  Nearly everyone I encounter seems tense, short-tempered, in a perpetually dark mood.  Yes, there are m...

There's a line in a Rush song ("A Farewell to Kings") that says, "the hypocrites are slandering/ the sacred halls of trut...

First, my thanks to the more than 13,300 folks who read my most recent blog post. I've never had that many readers, even when I've ...