Ian Prasad Philbrick
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I write Starting Point @BostonGlobe | [email protected] | Previously @nytimes
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Why is the WNBA resisting a bid to move the Connecticut Sun to Boston? I discussed the dynamic behind the standoff with my The Boston Globe colleague Katie McInerney for today’s Starting Point bostonglobe.com/2025/08/20/new…
.Ian Prasad Philbrick talks with us about how philanthropic organizations and a generous public are stepping up to help New Englanders hurt by DC's cuts in food, housing, and health, via @bostonglobe. bostonglobe.com/2025/08/21/new…
Charities like Boston Foundation and Rhode Island Foundation, blue states, and small donors are trying to offset the Trump administration’s funding cuts and other policy changes — at least as much as they can. Today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point explains bostonglobe.com/2025/08/21/new…
A hurricane hasn’t made landfall in New England in decades, but the region still bears the material, human, and financial costs of even the storms that largely miss us. Today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point explains bostonglobe.com/2025/08/25/new…
Students across Massachusetts are encountering a changed landscape as they head back to school. For today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point, I asked Marcela Rodrigues about how everything from immigration enforcement to cell phone use may be different this year bostonglobe.com/2025/08/26/new…
From smashing car windows to targeting people without criminal records, ICE is embracing more aggressive tactics to drive up detentions in Massachusetts and beyond. Today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point explains bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/new…
Accidental drownings are one of the leading causes of death among children. Today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point explains what Boston and Massachusetts are doing to prevent more of those tragedies from happening here bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/new…
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies to Congress, today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point explains the 5 major ways he’s dismantling public health as America has known it for decades, including by ousting experts and spouting misinformation bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/new…
The Boston mayoral campaign will narrow to two contenders tomorrow. But as today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point explains, the two losing candidates could continue to shape the race’s dynamics going forward bostonglobe.com/2025/09/08/new…
Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky has become Trump’s main Republican antagonist in Congress over the Jeffrey Epstein case. And as I learned reporting today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point, Massie got his professional start in Massachusetts bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/new…
Skin crawling? It might be climate change. As today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point explains, warmer temperatures and heavier rain are bringing creepy and dangerous bacteria, bugs, and diseases to New England bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/new…
Maine’s senior senator has dispatched one experienced challenger after another. Could a political novice who’s never sought or held elected office finally unseat her? In today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point, meet three candidates who hope the answer is yes bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/new…
It’s looking likely that the federal government will shut down at midnight. Today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point explains that would mean for New England: bostonglobe.com/2025/09/30/new…
The Sox beat the Yankees last night, extending an exciting, expectant stretch for Greater Boston sports. Today’s The Boston Globe Starting Point checks in on where the region’s other major pro teams stand: bostonglobe.com/2025/10/01/new…
A renowned doctor accused of abusing hundreds of patients — and a medical system that should have stopped him sooner. Today’s Starting Point goes inside a wrenching new investigation from the The Boston Globe Spotlight team: bostonglobe.com/2025/10/02/new…