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Richard Galant

Exploring the dividing line between the present and the past

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Watching ‘The West Wing’ in the Trump era

President Josiah Bartlet unburdens himself. (NBC/Warner Bros. Television)

“I was wrong.”

“I was.”

“I was just — I was wrong. Come on, we know that. Lots of times we don’t know what right or wrong is, but lots of times, we do, and come on...

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The genius who nearly failed his exams

It’s the kind of question that keeps biographers up at night: Why did the author of one of the most influential economics papers of the 20th century almost fail his exams for a sociology degree at the London School of Economics?

A.W. Phill...

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How America’s greatest inventor lost the war

Shortly after 6:40 a.m. on August 6, 1890, the warden of New York’s Auburn Prison looked at the bow-tied man strapped into a chair and said, “Good-bye, William.”

Those words signaled prison staff to pull a lever. It sent about a thousand...

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Your mail-in ballot is safe for 2026

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On September 6, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer likened the Postal Service’s stringent new rule on voting by mail to the requirements for mailing cremated remains and replica explosives.

The USPS, he argued in...

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‘We have something that has happened here’

“Pat, we are just currently getting a look at the World Trade Center,” said Tom Kaminski, WCBS 880’s traffic reporter at about 8:48 AM on September 11, 2001. “We have something that has happened here at the World Trade Center. We noticed fl...

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    Richard Galant is executive producer of Now It's History and a Senior Fellow at New America. He founded CNN Opinion and served as its managing editor. Galant led two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at Newsday.

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