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
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 7, 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Editorial | The death penalty: Outdated, racist and far too unreliable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 20, 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.
Editorial | Pitt Police must do better with emergency notifications

Editorial | Pitt Police must do better with emergency notifications

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • September 3, 2024
Over this past weekend, three major crimes took place on and around Pitt’s campus and on Duquesne University’s campus. Students who heard the news from friends and family members or social media applications like X, formerly known as Twitter, eagerly awaited for Pitt’s Emergency Notification System to tell us to stay clear of the sites. But no notifications ever came.
Editorial | We have become too entitled to information and celebrity interaction

Editorial | We have become too entitled to information and celebrity interaction

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • August 30, 2024
While the paparazzi has long been a problem for celebrities praying for a little peace and quiet, the information age has allowed anyone a bit too obsessed with a celebrity to track them down and demand a picture.
Editorial | TPN editors share their best tips for getting out of the summer slump

Editorial | TPN editors share their best tips for getting out of the summer slump

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • August 24, 2024

After a glorious 17 weeks of summer, we Pitt students are heading back to our Oakland campus to begin the fall semester. Many of us used the time to relax, others worked internships and some took summer...

Editorial | Why is political violence never okay in the US but perfectly fine overseas?

Editorial | Why is political violence never okay in the US but perfectly fine overseas?

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • July 17, 2024
In their grand statements of unity and their condemnations of violence in politics, our nation’s leaders often sneak in a footnote that clarifies that their cries for peace only extend to America’s borders.
Protesters face police officers during the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on Sunday night.

Editorial | The Pitt News Editorial Board condemns all violence at the University of Pittsburgh protests this week.

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • June 4, 2024
But more jarring than the police confiscating and removing a main source of sustenance, one needed to keep protesters from getting sick in the summer heat, is the violence that has been displayed at these protests the last few days.
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