Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

As I'm writing this, it's Halloween, and only 4 kids showed up at our house for Trick-or-Treat. The entire neighborhood has been str...

  Note: People who first saw this on several social media sites asked if I'd put it into my blog. Here it is.   It all started on Thursd...

What I remember about the incident was the outrage it inspired. A lot of people were really angry about what he said. People had loved his ...

I remember where I was the day that Lenny Zakim died. It was a Thursday, and I was driving home from work, and when the news came over the r...

I had lunch earlier today with some of the members of a wonderful Rush tribute band from New Jersey called A Farewell to Kings . As you migh...

Not many folks read my blog post from August 1, the one where I defended the importance of fact-checkers. I was disappointed, but not surpri...

I was disappointed to hear that Glenn Kessler was leaving the Washington Post, and even more disappointed that no replacement had been named...