Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I've always found it amusing to read "let's predict the future" articles-- newspaper and magazine editors throughout hist...

As a professor who teaches Political Communication, and as a former broadcaster, I understand that lots of stuff politicians say is tailored...

A journalist friend of mine, whom I've known for many years, was working on a segment for his radio program, and he wanted my recollecti...

On Tuesday evening, Republican Senator John N. Kennedy of Louisiana went on Fox News to advocate in favor of reopening the economy very soon...

Since last I blogged on March 15th, I've been spending a lot of time at home-- and so have many other people I know.  As the coronavirus...

These are some of the strangest days of my lifetime. We are all living through a global outbreak of the Coronavirus, and in state after stat...

Several weeks ago, some friends of mine lost their jobs, and based on what I've been told, none of them saw it coming. In fact, none of ...