At the height of election season, separating truth from lies, fact from fiction, and myth from reality is a challenge.  It’s true in both Connecticut and Washington, D.C., as the November balloting nears. In Washington, the nomination and ultimate confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as the newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court revealed polar differences in perception of – and portrayal of — the relevant facts.

The extent of the bitterness, frustration, anger and hyper-partisanship that has crystallized around the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court was on full display last week when a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and vote on the matter riveted home and workplace TV viewers all over the country, including Connecticut.

A sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh dominated the national news last week and brought into stark relief the differences between how men and women – and Democrats and Republicans — view the controversy and the broader and politically tricky issue it represents.

While the residents of the Carolinas struggled against devastating tides, torrential rain and winds from Hurricane Florence, the political wind blew in Connecticut. A lot of it, some would say, was hot air. Florence’s impact here was more political than meteorological as the state’s Puerto Rican community reacted to President Donald Trump’s denial that nearly […]

Connecticut, like the rest of the nation, spent the last week remembering the life of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz.,who will be buried today. With one notable exception, Republicans and Democrats alike took part in the public remembrance ceremonies – perhaps for slightly different reasons – and former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, McCain’s “amigo,” […]

The criminal convictions of two close associates of President Donald Trump rattled him,  the White House and the Republican party last week — and changed the tone of politics in Connecticut as well as Washington, D.C.

There was one big story last week that will resonate from now until November 6 – the election of the candidates competing to lead state government for the next four years.

Only two days until the Connecticut primaries — and it shows. The past week has been a series of candidate debates, press conferences, appearances, TV ads and countermeasures all intended to win the hearts and minds of party members across the state. Today will feature plenty of politicking, too, when students from Parkland, Fla., host a rally in Newtown opposing gun violence and encouraging young people to register to vote and support their cause.

The contemporary American’s dilemma last week: Deciding what is true or false, real or fake, and what to believe. President Donald Trump, at a rally in Wilkes Barre, Pa., told the nation last week that what they read in the American press is “fake, fake disgusting news”  – or at least that’s what the media reported.

Politics, politics, politics. As the August 14 primaries approach, just about everything happening in state government is the stuff of political debate. Take, for example, the idea of installing tolls on Connecticut’s highways. Without the support of either State Treasurer Denise Nappier, who abstained, or Comptroller Kevin Lembo, who is running for a third term, […]

Fallout from President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin dominated the political conversation last week as the president tried to unwind his previous refusal to support the U.S. intelligence community’s finding that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections.

While President Donald Trump was off in Europe reshaping the continent’s opinion of the United States, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was reshaping the public’s opinion of Russian President Vladimir Putin by indicting a dozen Russian military intelligence officers for hacking the 2016 election. Connecticut politicians, meanwhile, were at full televised stride in their pursuit of victory in the Aug. 14 primary.

A week of unrelenting heat in Connecticut had its parallels in state and federal politics last week despite a midweek Independence Day holiday.

The Democratic Party’s power in Connecticut and its powerlessness in Washington, D.C., were both on display last week beginning with a special one-day session of the state legislature and U.S. Supreme Court Anthony Kennedy’s announcement that he will retire this summer.