The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
Supporters look on as Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech for the 2024 presidential election, Wednesday, Nov. 6, on the campus of Howard University in Washington.

Editorial | Hope survives

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • November 11, 2024
Despite all the unease and uncertainty around what 2025 will bring, Tuesday still brought a lot of hope for a positive future.
Editorial | Who to blame while waiting for election results

Editorial | Who to blame while waiting for election results

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • November 4, 2024
In the not-unlikely scenario that you are sitting at home on Thursday night watching CNN and wondering why our lousy state is still an undecided gray on the map, make sure you know who to get angry at.
This combination photo shows Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaking during a news conference, Oct. 25, 2024, in Austin, Texas, left, and Joe Rogan at a UFC event, Aug. 18, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo)

Editorial | What it actually means to campaign on podcasts

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • October 29, 2024
Presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have caused a decent stir over the last couple of weeks. We are a mere seven days before the election, and both campaigns have picked up the pace.
Editorial | For politicians, playing both sides is a bad strategy when it comes to football

Editorial | For politicians, playing both sides is a bad strategy when it comes to football

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • October 21, 2024
Whether it’s football teams or gas stations, eastern and western Pennsylvania have wildly different tastes, and they are in no way quiet about them.
Editorial | Why are we questioning female-led superhero flicks when men are also failing to lead?

Editorial | Why are we questioning female-led superhero flicks when men are also failing to lead?

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • October 15, 2024
The stark reality is that female-led superhero projects are held to an unreasonable standard, burdened with the responsibility to not only succeed but to justify the existence of female representation in the genre.
Editorial | Melania Trump gets a choice on abortion, but her husband doesn't want the same for Americans

Editorial | Melania Trump gets a choice on abortion, but her husband doesn’t want the same for Americans

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • October 6, 2024
If Donald Trump truly believes in freedom, if he holds the same values for the American public that he does for his wife’s memoir, he would not celebrate the death of Roe v. Wade. Reproductive healthcare represents the freedom to choose what to do, the freedom to have agency over one’s own body.
After waiting on long lines to fill up their gas tanks at the Sheetz station, people were also filling up containers of gas for their generators after Hurricane Helene caused power outages on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Morganton, N.C.

Editorial | Hurricane Helene is a governmental failure

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • September 30, 2024
As climate change continues to accelerate, the frequency and intensity of hurricanes are rising at alarming rates. Just this year alone, communities all over the coasts have been battered, displaced and vulnerable.
Marcellus Williams.

Editorial | The death penalty: Outdated, racist and far too unreliable

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • September 26, 2024
The death penalty and capital punishment has long been debated within and across partisan lines. While many deem it necessary to thoroughly punish the worst criminals in this country, the reality is that it actively targets people of color — particularly Black men — and serves as yet another systemic barrier to racial equity.
Jiri Palayekar | Staff Illustrator

Editorial | Misogyny to maturity through the rise of “Wife Guys”

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • September 19, 2024
Men should be encouraged to embody kindness, empathy and emotion without adding harm to their actions. These traits can coexist with strength, confidence and assertiveness — common characteristics associated with traditional masculinity — without compromising one’s manhood.
ABC World News Tonight Anchor David Muir, left, addresses members of the audience while standing with ABC News Live Anchor Linsey Davis.

Editorial | Were ABC’s moderators harder on Trump?

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • September 13, 2024
During Tuesday’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, ABC’s moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis introduced an element to the debate that was absent from Trump’s faceoff with Biden on CNN — mid-debate fact-checking.
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