Richard Galant

New York

Executive Producer at Now It’s History

Executive Producer, Now It’s History. Priors: Founding editor, of @CNNOpinion and Managing Editor, Newsday & New York Newsday.

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Articles

Judges who stand up to presidents

1 week ago | open.substack.com | Richard Galant

John Sirica never shied away from a fight. He coached boxers three nights a week while in law school, sparred with an ex-welterweight champion and won a match that prompted a local paper to call him a “great little mitt artist.”Sirica was a loyal Republican who was appointed to a federal judgeship in Washington by President Dwight Eisenhower and rose to become chief judge of his district.
The parade of Joe Biden books

2 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Richard Galant

Why now? That’s the question a lot of people are asking about the spate of books examining the increasing infirmity of President Joe Biden. The man who replaced Biden in the White House is tearing up long-established rules in a rush to enhance presidential power, humiliating foreign leaders in the Oval Office, impulsively imposing high tariffs and ranting on social media. And sadly Biden is suffering from metastatic prostate cancer, his office announced Sunday.
A big, bold experiment to solve a housing shortage

2 weeks ago | nowitshistory.com | Richard Galant

Editor’s note: In a recent Now It’s Historypost on high-speed rail, I explored the view that Democrats should become the party of “Abundance,” which is the title of a recent book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.
Why the Qatar jet gift controversy hits home

3 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Richard Galant

The first airplane specially built to fly a president was the “Sacred Cow,” a Douglas VC-54C Skymaster that took President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Yalta conference in early February 1945. The next one, a Douglas VC-118 introduced in 1947, was named “Independence,” after President Harry S. Truman’s Missouri hometown. In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower was flying back to Washington on his plane after giving a speech in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The battle over birthright

3 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Richard Galant

It was precisely the right moment for an anti-slavery group to talk strategy.
Trump and the Pope

4 weeks ago | nowitshistory.com | Richard Galant

A “spirit of revolutionary change” was reshaping the world economy, Pope Leo XIII wrote in 1891.
A new book on legendary writer John McPhee

1 month ago | nowitshistory.com | Richard Galant |Noel Rubinton

As a young commuter, John McPhee would stop by an orange juice stand at New York’s Penn Station. “From late autumn and on through winter and spring,” he wrote, “I noticed a gradual deepening of the color of the expressed juice. December was pale cadmium, April marigold, and June a Persian orange.” That set him to wondering about the different varieties of the fruit. “I didn't linger over the question.
A new book on legendary writer John McPhee

1 month ago | open.substack.com | Richard Galant

As a young commuter, John McPhee would stop by an orange juice stand at New York’s Penn Station. “From late autumn and on through winter and spring,” he wrote, “I noticed a gradual deepening of the color of the expressed juice. December was pale cadmium, April marigold, and June a Persian orange.” That set him to wondering about the different varieties of the fruit. “I didn't linger over the question.
Trump's curious Garden of American Heroes

1 month ago | open.substack.com | Richard Galant

Sophie Simon’s life changed suddenly when her father died in 1886. Still in high school, the 16-year-old had to take a part-time job clerking in a store to help her mother and five younger siblings. The family had emigrated from Russia to the U.S. in 1876, settling in a town near Pittsburgh. Sophie wound up marrying the store owner, Ansel Loeb. She took his name and kept it, even after their divorce, when she moved to New York City in 1910 and began work as a reporter for the New York World.
My chat with presidential historian Alexis Coe

1 month ago | open.substack.com | Richard Galant

Now It’s History explores the roots of today’s political and social turmoil by examining the past. Hosted by journalist Richard Galant, each episode uncovers the hidden patterns behind revolutions, protests, and power struggles, showing how events like President Richard Nixon’s resignation, the rise of social media and the election of Barack Obama continue to shape our world. Grounded in historical facts and expert interviews, this podcast reveals how history’s echoes influence our time.