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Timothy McGrath

Digital Editor

Timothy McGrath is a digital editor at PRI.

Timothy McGrath is a digital editor at PRI, where he focuses on stories about international security, conflict and migration. Prior to joining the PRI team, he was the social media editor at GlobalPost. He earned a PhD in American Studies in 2013 from Harvard University and was a lecturer in the History & Literature Program there. He also taught courses in cultural history at Boston College and Wellesley College. 

Evacuee Pete Quintana Jr. is wrapped in a blanket at the George R. Brown Convention Center after Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas, Aug. 28, 2017.

How to help after Harvey: These groups are providing relief to Texans affected by catastrophic flooding

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Hurricane Harvey has brought record rainfall and devastating flooding to parts of southeast Texas. Houston, the fourth-largest city in the US, has been especially hard hit. Here’s how you can help.

President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, April 27, 2017.

President Trump, how have 100 days in office changed your thinking about national security?

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Demonstrators rally at the statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina, July 18, 2015, after state officials decided to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds.

President Trump, how do you plan to combat right-wing extremism in the United States?

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A US Air Force F15-E fighter jet takes off from Incirlik airbase in the southern city of Adana, Turkey, Dec. 10, 2015.

President Trump, will you remove US nuclear weapons from Turkey?

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A man carries the body of a dead child, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria, April 4, 2017.

President Trump, you bombed Assad for killing ‘beautiful babies.’ Why won’t you accept refugee kids?

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A test-fire of North Korea's Pukguksong-2 guided missile in an undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, Feb. 13, 2017.

President Trump, do you have a red line when it comes to North Korea?

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Surveillance footage suggests North Korea could be preparing to test a nuclear weapon in the coming weeks. It would be a significant foreign policy test for President Donald Trump.

United Nations peacekeepers meet women and children on their path during a patrol near Bentiu, northern South Sudan, Feb. 11, 2017.

President Trump, do you think cutting UN funding by 50 percent will make America safer?

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Trump has promised to “make America safe again.” Does he think deep cuts to US funding for the United Nations’ humanitarian and peacekeeping missions will achieve that goal?

Women walk past graffiti denouncing strikes by US drones in Yemen, painted on a wall in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 6, 2017.

President Trump, is it important to you to limit civilian deaths in US military operations?

Conflict

The new administration has already faced questions about whether it’s doing enough to limit civilian casualties. Will Trump’s beefed-up military be one with looser rules of engagement?

A Yemeni national who was denied entry into the US after President Donald Trump's first immigration and refugee visa ban shows the canceled visa in a passport, at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, Feb. 6, 2017.

President Trump, do you plan to expand the scope of your immigration and refugee ban?

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President Donald Trump’s first executive order temporarily restricting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries and banning refugees was blocked in federal court. His revised order is narrower in scope, but will his administration expand on it in coming months?

An Afghan National Army officer holds an Afghanistan flag during a training exercise at the Kabul Military Training Centre in Afghanistan, Oct. 7, 2015.

President Trump, what are you going to do in Afghanistan?

Conflict

America’s invasion of Afghanistan began as a military operation to strike back at al-Qaeda after 9/11 and capture or kill Osama bin Laden. It turned into the longest war in US history. It’s Trump’s responsibility now.