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Jan 3, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Ian Philbrick
A once-defeated president is headed back to the White House. He's a populist New Yorker who won a popular-vote plurality and scored an Electoral College landslide. He flipped states he lost four years earlier and gave his party full control of Washington. The race scrambled political allegiances, with some voters splitting their tickets. Tariffs were a key issue. That paragraph describes the 2024 election.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Ashley Wu |Jon Huang |Sean Catangui |Tom Wright-Piersanti |Ian Philbrick |Lyna Bentahar | +6 more
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Ian Philbrick
Things have gotten so bad, we are told, that the Thanksgiving table is now a battlefield. Advice columnists, psychologists, therapists, podcasters and philosophers counsel us how to avoid or defuse arguments about politics. But sparring at (or about) Thanksgiving isn't new. It is, in fact, a very old tradition - no less American than pumpkin pie. Debates were on the menu even before Congress formally declared the federal holiday in 1941.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Ian Philbrick
Good evening. Tonight, my colleague Ian Prasad Philbrick has a look at why it's so difficult for sitting vice presidents to succeed their bosses. I'll be back on Wednesday. - Jess Bidgood Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election for many reasons. Her job title may be one of them. Sitting vice presidents have a poor track record of succeeding their bosses. Over the last century, five have become their party's presidential nominee.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | German Lopez |Germán López |Ian Philbrick
Republicans moved closer to claiming House control yesterday. They have won 214 of the 218 seats they need for a majority, and 16 races remain uncalled. With the House, Republicans would have full control of the federal government next year. Donald Trump and his allies have carefully planned for this moment. Today's newsletter is the first in a series called "Trump's Agenda," which will look at what Republicans aim to get done. This first installment is akin to a table of contents.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
virginislandsdailynews.com | Ian Philbrick
Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 on Tuesday and is the longest-lived U.S. president in history, holds another, less noticed distinction: He’s the most prolific author of any president in a century. Carter has written or co-written 32 books in his lifetime, 20 of which became New York Times bestsellers. But that expansive literary legacy has a flip side.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | David Leonhardt |Ian Philbrick
Last night's vice-presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz was calmer - and more typical of the pre-Trump political era - than the presidential debate last month. That calmness often made it easier to understand the policy differences between the two campaigns. In today's newsletter, we'll walk through four big differences, as well as tell you about key moments from the debate and offer a selection of commentary about how Vance and Walz did.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Ian Philbrick
The F.B.I. continues to investigate an apparent attempt to assassinate Donald Trump on Sunday at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla. Today's newsletter rounds up what we've learned so far about the suspect and the charges against him, how the episode unfolded and how Trump and others are reacting. Ryan W. Routh, identified by the authorities as the gunman, wore a blue inmate jumpsuit on Monday to his first court appearance in Florida, less than 24 hours after his arrest.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | David Leonhardt |Ian Philbrick
Debating has long been a Kamala Harris strength. It resembles courtroom argument, a core part of her career as a prosecutor. A debate helped her win her first statewide race in California, 14 years ago. In her only vice-presidential debate four years ago with Mike Pence, polls showed that she won. She was calm and forceful and repeatedly baited Trump into looking angry.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | David Leonhardt |Ian Philbrick
Kamala Harris's choice of a running mate probably won't decide this year's presidential campaign. It's hard to argue that a vice-presidential nominee has swung even a single state over the past 60 years. Why not? The country's polarization means that people increasingly base their vote on salient national issues. The media landscape has nationalized, reducing the influence of local news organizations and political parties. And vice presidents receive a fraction of the attention that presidents do.
