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Now It's History

Richard Galant

Exploring the dividing line between the present and the past

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Your mail-in ballot is safe for 2026

Photo by Benoît Prieur

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...

12 days ago
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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...

17 days ago
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Osama bin Laden lit the spark for endless wars

Hours after hijackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, journalist Peter Bergen said on CNN that the “most likely suspect” in the attacks was Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda.

Bergen...

19 days ago
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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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    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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