Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I grew up in an ethnic neighborhood-- Dorchester, MA, back when it was predominantly Jewish. There was also another ethnic neighborhood in D...

Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward is coming to Boston in a couple of days to do several speaking engagements, and I'll have a chance...

On any day in Washington DC, you can find politicians from both sides of the aisle criticizing their political opponents. It's almost li...

I'm teaching a very important course this semester, and the timing couldn't be better. It's called Political Communication, and ...

Since it's Jewish New Year, and the beginning of the Ten Days of Repentance, I'd like to talk about politics. No, I don't mean t...

I never met either of my grandmothers, although I heard a lot about both of them when I was growing up. My maternal grandmother (Dora) died ...

If you're a fan of Rush, there's a song of theirs from 1975 called "I Think I'm Going Bald." I've heard various ve...