Behold the many absurd juxtapositions we saw in our nation’s capital over the July 4th weekend.

Protestors of the Trump administration are strategically increasing their market share of public opinion by offering a better product: peace.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller dismissed the anti-Trump “No Kings” protesters as a bunch of “elderly white hippies.” Let’s break that down.,

One big reason to cover one’s face is to hide our shame.

I call upon my Republican colleagues to put their shock over Trump’s brush with death to good use: stop blaming “rhetoric” and start blaming guns.

It’s time for a new Devil’s Dictionary for a devilish new age — a time in which too many people define common terms based on what suits them, rather than on our shared experience.

He acknowledged color, gender, and political persuasion keenly and sharply and without blinking. But then he did what so few of us can do — he pushed through it all.

If ever there were a time to question how utility companies make a profit, this is it.

So, now that newspaper headlines warn of a $4 per gallon charge because of the invasion of Ukraine, how do The Yankee Institute and the Republican Party feel about TCI

If the “Depose King Ned” crowd really wanted to go back to business as usual, they’d get vaccinated and put on a damn mask.

On Earth Day, some legislative colleagues and I joined about 40 young environmental activists at Hartford’s Riverfront Plaza for a “Meet Your Legislator” event hosted by the youth-led Sunrise Movement. During the introductions, I described myself as “unapologetically progressive.” To my surprise, the group clapped. One young man said, under his breath, “Thank God.” A young woman said, “At least somebody is!”

Last Wednesday, my colleagues and I were sworn in by the Secretary of the State. Because of COVID restrictions, the ceremony was held outside, on the north portico of the State Capitol. Beginning an hour before the swearing-in, a crowd swelled behind a make-shift barrier erected by the Capitol police. Although this crowd did not breach the cordon or storm the Capitol, it was something other than “peaceful,” as it has been described in the press.

It’s time to say a word about the “Re-Open America” movement. Throughout the country – and here in Connecticut as recently as Monday – small gatherings of self-proclaimed “patriots” are protesting the continued stay-at-home orders and physical distancing. Far from being brave freedom fighters, these people are reckless, selfish and unwise.

…When the president of the United States cancels the White House’s subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post and threatens to force federal agencies to do the same, it’s time to say it flat out: democracy doesn’t just “die in darkness,” it gets murdered there by venal dolts like Donald Trump.