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Opinion | We need to stop doing “What I eat in a day” videos on TikTok

By Grace Harris, Staff Columnist • January 22, 2024

It is important that one of the most widely used social media apps doesn't contribute to more harm that adolescents and the general public will succumb to.

Opinion | I read 71 books last year … here are the best 5

By Anna Fischer, Senior Staff Columnist • January 19, 2024

I like reading. A lot. And each year, I publish a curated list of the best books that I read, and why I think you should read them.

Opinion | You shouldn’t be embarrassed about your music taste

By Delaney Rauscher Adams, Staff Columnist • January 19, 2024

While I have successfully crafted my musical image to others, I often limit myself with these arbitrary markers of what the types of music indicate about me.

Opinion | Digital well-being looks different for everyone

By Abigail Dobry, Senior Staff Columnist • January 18, 2024

Most resolutions I hear from family, friends or online communities consist of bettering themselves. Everyone starts going to the gym or cutting out sugar. For others, their form of betterment is about holding themselves accountable by saving money, spending less on non-essentials. My New Year’s resolution is a different form of bettering myself. I want to improve my digital well-being.

Editorial | Let your car get totaled

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • January 18, 2024

It’s normal to get a feeling of worry when we see a car on the side of the road whose front is destroyed beyond repair, but it’s really one of the best things to see after a collision.

Opinion | Making art when you’re depressed feels impossible — do it anyway

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor • January 17, 2024

When you build your identity, even a comparatively low-stakes one like your undergraduate major, around your ability to generate a creative product, it’s terrifying to feel like you’ve lost that ability.

Satire | Scheduling squalor: Working as a full time student

By Alaina McCall, Staff Columnist • January 16, 2024

Friends, hobbies, self and joy. All important aspects of life, maybe more so when you’re a broke college student trying to figure out what kind of person you’re going to be.

Opinion | SCOTUS’ history and traditions test is decimating our civil rights

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • January 12, 2024

Why have cases like Dobbs v. Jackson, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard taken the country by storm, stripping people of their rights and threatening others in the process?

Editorial | Jo Koy did not watch the Barbie movie

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • January 12, 2024

There is much we can discuss, such as Pedro Pascal’s loss to Kiernan Culkin for Best Actor in a TV Drama or dissecting what exactly Selena Gomez was gossiping about with Taylor Swift and Keleigh Teller. But there was one common belief of the night we’d like to touch on here, and that is the fact that Jo Koy did not do a great job as host

Opinion | Leave the lights on this semester and avoid an all-consuming seasonal depression

By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • January 11, 2024

Leaving the lights on is an easy way to ward off the winter blues because it requires very little effort. It’s just a simple three steps from your desk, and hey, there’s some exercise for the day.