Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

On July 4, it will not only be America's birthday: it will be my husband's birthday too. America will be 250. My husband, Jon Jacobi...

Eddie Andelman died the other day at age 89. Unless you've lived in Boston, you probably never heard of him. But for nearly five decades...

I was just thinking about how in a few days, Rush will begin their new tour. That in itself is amazing: if you had told me a couple of years...

I was reading an opinion piece in the Boston Globe yesterday. It was written by Steven Peljovich, a guy who owns a restaurant. It's a ve...

The annual Reporters Without Borders  (RSF) World Press Freedom Index just came out, and Norway was #1, just as it was last year. Explaining...

When I was growing up, people were a lot more patient than they are now. I know that's a generality, but based on what I've seen, th...

If you had told me a year ago that I would be seeing Rush reunite, I doubt I would have believed it. Yes, Geddy and Alex had performed at a ...