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Brian S. McGrath

Brian McGrath is Senior Editor of TIME Edge. He joined the staff in 2015. During his 20 years of classroom experience, he has been a middle school ELA teacher in the New York City public schools, a writing instructor at the Univeristy of Arizona and Rutgers University, and a literature professor at Claremont McKenna College. Brian holds a PhD in literature from Rutgers University, in New Jersey. He spends his free time reading, writing essays, and visiting art museums.

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8 Questions for Francesca Di Cristofano

December 6, 2018

Last spring, a local newspaper in Pelham, New York, shut down. A group of students decided to start their own news site, Pelham Examiner. TFK’s Brian S. McGrath spoke with the managing editor, Francesca Di Cristofano, about the challenges and…

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Fire Alarm

November 30, 2018

Massive wildfires swept through parts of California in November. They destroyed tens of thousands of homes and left many people dead or missing. On November 8, fire broke out in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in Northern California.…

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Art In Action

November 30, 2018

It was an ordinary day at Grand Central Terminal, in New York City. People were rushing through the busy train station. Then the creatures showed up. They were green, red, and shades of blue. When they moved, they whooshed like…

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A Shift in Congress

November 9, 2018

American voters turned out in unusually high numbers for the 2018 midterm elections. The result: Democrats won a majority in the House of Representatives while Republicans maintained their hold on the Senate. Power in Congress is now split between…

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Happy Trails

November 2, 2018

The chalk-white bluffs rose 300 feet high. To explorer Meriwether Lewis, they looked like the ruins of an ancient city. “It seemed as if those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end,” Lewis wrote in a journal from…

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Decision Time

October 26, 2018

On November 6, Americans will vote in midterm elections. Midterms are held about halfway through a president’s four-year term. The purpose is to elect members of Congress. This year, there are also state and local elections. The midterms will decide…

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Food for Thought

October 19, 2018

Margaret Morris is a scientist at the University of New South Wales, in Australia. She is giving her rats a memory test. She sets them in their usual box. But she has rearranged the objects inside. Some rats sniff them…

Environment

Climate Crisis

October 12, 2018

On October 8, the United Nations (U.N.) issued a warning: The worst effects of climate change could come sooner than expected. A U.N. panel of scientists says the Earth has warmed by 1.8°F since the 1850s. The temperature could rise…

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Trade Battle

September 28, 2018

China and the United States have been trade partners for decades. They have bought and sold each other’s goods. These have included technology, food, and steel. Now China and the U.S. are in a trade war. On September 24,…

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Rising Waters

September 21, 2018

Flooding continues in the southeastern United States after Hurricane Florence. Hurricane Florence barreled in from the Atlantic Ocean. It landed in North Carolina on the morning of September 14. It wasn’t 90-mile-an-hour winds that officials feared most. It was water. The…

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