Ian Philbrick
Writer, Starting Point at The Boston Globe
I write Starting Point @BostonGlobe | [email protected] | Previously @nytimes
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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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A picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes the story behind one merits a few more. Today’s @BostonGlobe Starting Point explains how Globe photographer @DanielleParhiz captured the defining image of the Celtics’ painful season https://t.co/JxkciQTJPr
DC drama has overshadowed some big developments on federal Covid vaccine policy, the bird flu outbreak, and the state of measles cases in the US. Today’s @BostonGlobe Starting Point explains what’s changed and why it matters https://t.co/bFurUq95BS
As corporations pull back from sponsoring Pride events elsewhere, some Boston companies are shying away from partnerships with LGBTQ organizations. For today’s @BostonGlobe Starting Point, I spoke with @MALGBTCC and others about how they’re adapting https://t.co/K6CcHqSAUx