Richard Galant - Managing Editor, CNN Opinion
Richard Galant
Managing Editor, CNN Opinion
Richard Galant is managing editor of CNN Opinion, heading the team that edits and produces opinion for digital platforms.
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Opinion: Winds of fate confront Trump
Apr 28, 2024
The Republican candidate’s odds of victory in November stand to be swayed by the decisions of judges and jurors in New York and Washington. In the Art Deco criminal courthouse in Manhattan, prosecutors started methodically building a case against Trump while the conservative justices in the US Supreme Court’s marble-walled chamber seemed inclined to give the former president some support for his immunity argument.
Opinion: Trump’s followers were asleep at the switch
Apr 22, 2024
After two months of inaction partly induced by former President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson worked with Democrats to approve aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Opinion: Darkness in daytime — how to spend those few minutes
Apr 7, 2024
Nearly 100 years ago, an impending solar eclipse prompted whimsical suggestions for how to spend the few minutes of darkness from a prominent American humorist. Millions are on the move to get to the path of totality for Monday’s eclipse or planning to watch close to home but what will they do when the moment comes?
Opinion: Trump videos send wildly different messages
Mar 31, 2024
The former president began the week by sharing a video hawking a “God Bless the USA” Bible and ended it with one showing an image of President Joe Biden tied up in the bed of a pickup truck, two jarring moments in a campaign like no other.
Opinion: Trump’s image is on the line
Mar 24, 2024
In the midst of a presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump has to contend with a financially crushing court judgement, facing the possibility of a state attorney general attempting to seize his assets if he can’t post a bond while he appeals the ruling. The spectacle clashes with his carefully tended image as a billionaire with endless resources.
Opinion: Trump gives Biden one big lift
Mar 17, 2024
With less than eight months left to go, almost everything is going wrong for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Gas prices are rising and progress in stamping out high inflation more generally seems to have stalled, possibly jeopardizing interest rate cuts that could fuel the economy. A Gaza deal is proving elusive. And former President Donald Trump is winning delay after delay in his criminal trials. Yet one thing is going right for Biden.
Opinion: Which America do you choose?
Mar 10, 2024
With nearly eight months to go before the vote for president, the battle lines are clearly drawn between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, two men who lead bitterly divided factions that accuse the other of trying to tear down the vision of America each embraces.
Opinion: Why ‘My Way’ won’t go away
Mar 3, 2024
The song written for and made famous by Frank Sinatra was played as Alexei Navalny’s coffin was lowered Friday. The lyrics feed the notion, despite all, that we are in control of the lives we lead
Opinion: Nikki Haley’s Jon Snow moment
Feb 25, 2024
Haley’s increasingly sharp criticism of the former president stands out in a party whose leaders are, for the most part, eager to show the MAGA universe that they are true Donald Trump believers, whatever they may say in private. After losing in South Carolina, the former UN ambassador is facing pressure to abandon the race and support Trump.
Opinion: One man who stood up to a dictatorship
Feb 18, 2024
The sudden death of the most prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin came at a time when the rivals for the US presidency are clashing over supporting Ukraine in its effort to fight off the Russian invasion
Opinion: Super Bowl isn’t the only big game
Feb 11, 2024
The Super Bowl’s on-field matchup and the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce narrative are the least of it. America’s presidential campaign, the Supreme Court’s encounter with politics and the implosion of the Senate border bill can all be analyzed as deadly serious games that are playing out in unpredictable ways
Opinion: A colossal failure, decades in the making
Feb 4, 2024
Seventy-six years after a plane carrying 28 migrants crashed near California’s Los Gatos Canyon, the issue of immigration still revolves around politics, with scant attention to the real people involved.
Opinion: What could fall apart after Trump’s victory
Jan 28, 2024
Former President Donald Trump’s decisive win in New Hampshire is endangering the months-long negotiation for a deal to address the surge in migrants at the southern border and provide more aid to Ukraine
Opinion: Our possibly short national nightmare
Jan 21, 2024
Most Americans don’t want to see a rematch of the 2020 choice between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, but it may be up to New Hampshire voters to determine if that contest is what the nation will confront in November
Opinion: The former president who did what Trump is trying to do
Jan 14, 2024
Only one president in US history has succeeded in winning a second non-consecutive term, and Grover Cleveland’s 1892 campaign approach was worlds away from former President Donald Trump’s focus on his own grievances. In Iowa on Monday, we’ll finally get an answer to a question that has been swirling for months: is there room in the GOP race for anyone other than Trump?
About
Richard Galant is the founding editor and managing editor of CNN Opinion. He joined CNN in 2008 and led the section’s launch the following year. He heads the team that edits and produces opinion pieces for digital platforms.
Galant was formerly managing editor of Newsday and New York Newsday, where he led teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes. He also served as metropolitan editor, deputy managing editor and assistant managing editor for business. He worked as a local and statehouse reporter and wrote a business column during his time at Newsday.
Galant received a master’s degree in politics and philosophy at Oxford University and a bachelor’s degree in politics at Brandeis University.
