Richard Galant
@richardgalant.bsky.social
Exec Producer of Now It’s History. (Www.nowitshistory.com) Priors: CNN Opinion Managing Editor, Newsday and NY Newsday
The president who amazed America
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The president who amazed America
What happened after 'Death by Lightning'
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November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The president who amazed America
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An ingenious new spy thriller on Albert Einstein and the Nazis
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An ingenious new spy thriller on Albert Einstein and the Nazis
A recording from Richard Galant's live video
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November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
An ingenious new spy thriller on Albert Einstein and the Nazis
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Trump can no longer count on the unswerving loyalty of his followers
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Trump can no longer count on the unswerving loyalty of his followers
When imperial projects go awry
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November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Trump can no longer count on the unswerving loyalty of his followers
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The Argentina bailout is moving ahead. American farmers have to wait.
Trouble in Trump country
A magic bean is giving his team indigestion
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October 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The Argentina bailout is moving ahead. American farmers have to wait.
Life on Mars, Charlie Kirk's Last Questioner, Toxic Airplane Air, Costly Coffee, and the Return of Beards
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Life on Mars, Charlie Kirk's Last Questioner, Toxic Airplane Air, Costly Coffee, and the Return of Beards
What I'm Reading
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September 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Life on Mars, Charlie Kirk's Last Questioner, Toxic Airplane Air, Costly Coffee, and the Return of Beards
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A risky ride.
J.D. Vance's strange role
The difference between prominence and power
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April 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A risky ride.
California high-speed rail's long ride to nowhere
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California high-speed rail's long ride to nowhere
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson want a liberalism that builds things
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March 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
California high-speed rail's long ride to nowhere
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If American democracy could survive the 1790s, maybe it has a chance.
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'We shall see the reign of witches pass over'
How American democracy survived an administration that targeted immigrants and journalists
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March 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
If American democracy could survive the 1790s, maybe it has a chance.
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Don't miss @richardgalant.bsky.social's conversation with Thomas Maier on his podcast NOW IT'S HISTORY! The two discuss a NYC landmark, spies, and Maier's upcoming book THE INVISIBLE SPY!
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The real-life Rockefeller Center spy nest that launched James Bond
Now It's History · Episode
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March 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Don't miss @richardgalant.bsky.social's conversation with Thomas Maier on his podcast NOW IT'S HISTORY! The two discuss a NYC landmark, spies, and Maier's upcoming book THE INVISIBLE SPY!
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Another time when federal officials were purged and the truth came under assault.
The American gulf is widening
The truth under assault
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February 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Another time when federal officials were purged and the truth came under assault.
My take on the Trump-Musk partnership: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
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February 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Who did more to revive U.S. manufacturing?
Biden's last laugh
The outgoing president's policies may do more to jumpstart U.S. manufacturing than Trump's economic measures
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January 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Who did more to revive U.S. manufacturing?
An unpredictable factor in Trump's Washington. open.substack.com/pub/richardg...
The conservative Supreme Court justice Trump can't rely on
Amy Coney Barrett shows signs of independence that could constrain the new administration
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January 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The times are indeed changing in January, 2025, but not in a way that anyone could possibly have envisioned way back then.
The Times They Are A-Changin' ... Again
How Bob Dylan's generational anthem sounds at the outset of 2025
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January 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The times are indeed changing in January, 2025, but not in a way that anyone could possibly have envisioned way back then.
The ills of America's health care system can't be fixed this way. www.nowitshistory.com/p/luigi-mang...
Luigi Mangione's senseless debt to the Unabomber
The lesson he drew from Ted Kaczynski's 35,000-word manifesto
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December 11, 2024 at 8:14 PM
The ills of America's health care system can't be fixed this way. www.nowitshistory.com/p/luigi-mang...
A look at Argentina’s radical budget-cutter open.substack.com/pub/richardg...
Trump and Musk want to borrow Javier Milei's chainsaw
But how well would the Argentine president's radical budget-cutting regime translate to the United States?
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December 3, 2024 at 2:29 AM
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It's not a "10 best" list ... but here are some books, movies and shows that stuck with me through 2024. What did you watch and read? open.substack.com/pub/richardg...
Spies, adventurers, rule-breakers and freedom fighters
What I read and watched in 2024
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November 27, 2024 at 8:23 PM
It's not a "10 best" list ... but here are some books, movies and shows that stuck with me through 2024. What did you watch and read? open.substack.com/pub/richardg...
Before there was DOGE, there was David Stockman. www.nowitshistory.com/p/what-musk-...
What Musk, Ramaswamy and Vought are trying to do
There's a precedent for the extreme budget cutters, and it carries lessons for today
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November 25, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Before there was DOGE, there was David Stockman. www.nowitshistory.com/p/what-musk-...
How recess appointments figure into the Trump cabinet equation, post-Matt Gaetz open.substack.com/pub/richardg...
The double-edged sword in Trump's hands
Trump's talk of recess appointments couldn't save Matt Gaetz's nomination from GOP senators' skepticism; what will it mean for Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.?
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November 23, 2024 at 3:00 AM
How recess appointments figure into the Trump cabinet equation, post-Matt Gaetz open.substack.com/pub/richardg...
What happens when presidents send controversial nominations to the Senate? History provides some clues. www.nowitshistory.com/p/matt-gaetz...
Matt Gaetz meets the Senate
The Senate GOP has the power, should it choose to exercise it, to block Trump's controversial appointments
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November 14, 2024 at 3:46 PM
What happens when presidents send controversial nominations to the Senate? History provides some clues. www.nowitshistory.com/p/matt-gaetz...
He was a president before there were presidents. open.substack.com/pub/richardg...
The King of America
John Hancock's role in the Revolutionary War era was bigger than his famous signature
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November 13, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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