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Richard Galant

Exploring the dividing line between the present and the past

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The foul-mouthed strategist who steered the Democrats to a midterm victory

Rahm Emanuel in the Oval Office with President Bill Clinton, 1993. (White House photo)

Rahm Emanuel gained a reputation for spewing the f-bomb during his early days in Democratic politics. He and two other campaign staffers infamously mail...

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The murderous rivalry that bedeviled socialism

Shortly before 4 a.m. on May 24, 1940, about 20 men carrying bombs, machine guns, revolvers, an iron bar and a rope ladder approached Leon Trotsky’s mansion in a Mexico City suburb.

Their leader, a noted muralist named David Alfaro Siqueir...

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A presidential vanishing act, then and now

On August 5, 1941, the presidential yacht Potomac weighed anchor in Menemsha Bight, off Martha’s Vineyard and headed toward the Cape Cod Canal. A man with a cigarette holder in his mouth waved to spectators on shore, and they returned the g...

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Christopher Nolan left out the best part of The Odyssey

Polyphemus (Universal Pictures)

“Strangers! Now who are you?” The Cyclops spots men in his cave and asks, “Where did you sail from, over the running sea-lanes.”

A nervous Odysseus, gawking at the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, tells him they...

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How a mistake spread from the White House to the New York Times and the JFK Library

Press Secretary Pierre Salinger holds cigar as he and President John F. Kennedy look over documents in 1962. (White House photo by Cecil Stoughton)

Soon after John F. Kennedy took office as president in 1961, the first lady’s press secreta...

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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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