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A farewell to London: Home is where the hot tea is

By Courtney Linder / Senior Columnist • December 10, 2015

“The Hot Tea” is a weekly column dedicated to unearthing the intricacies of London’s social, political and millennial issues in the context of Pittsburgh’s own complex culture. LONDON– Prior...

Editorial: Casual Fridays

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • December 10, 2015

Six feet deep like Moscow authorities are giving people an exclusive opportunity to take a Snapchat selfie with a ghost. Starting next year, free Wi-Fi will be available in the city’s three main cemeteries...

Anxiety doesn’t have to cause finals blues

By Mariam Shalaby / Columnist • December 10, 2015

My eyes flew open, and the voice in my head greeted me with a frenzied recitation of my to-do list. It was 6 a.m. — tasks for chemistry, biology, violin, composition and housework ran through my head. An...

Editorial: Push for change: Don’t criticize police scrutiny

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • December 10, 2015

Police chiefs are feeling a little camera shy these days. With the advent of video footage of fatal police shootings flashing before the public’s eyes, police chiefs have faced radical changes in their...

Demagogue Trump prefers bias to facts

By Stephen Caruso / Senior Columnist • December 9, 2015

Donald Trump is a man of many talents: His ability to self-promote is as large as his casinos, and his knowledge of bankruptcy is thorough after having filed for four of them. And while Trump is putting...

Editorial: Quit the shtick: Trump’s antics are a threat to national security

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • December 9, 2015

Donald Trump is running a successful campaign of racist belligerence. He was never supposed to make it this far as a presidential candidate — yet here we are, reeling from his call on Monday for the...

Point-Counterpoint: Discrimination causes the wage gap, nothing else

By Alyssa Lieberman / Columnist • December 8, 2015

Editor’s note: This column is part of a point-counterpoint set of columns on the wage gap. For the corresponding column, see “Point-Counterpoint: The wage gap is unavoidable, not unfair.” From the...

Point-Counterpoint: The wage gap is unavoidable, not unfair

By Timothy Nerozzi / Columnist • December 8, 2015

Editor’s note: This column is part of a point-counterpoint set of columns on the wage gap. For the corresponding column, see “Point-Counterpoint: Discrimination causes the wage gap, nothing else.” A...

Editorial: Keep teachers where we need them most

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • December 7, 2015

The gap in academic achievement is not necessarily a result of bad teachers, but a result of inconsistent teachers. According to a report from journalist Emma Brown of The Washington Post, low-income...

Obama’s address: Keep guns out of extremists’ hands

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • December 7, 2015

Fighting terrorism has reached a “new phase” for the United States, President Obama said during his Oval Office address last night. As we have improved at gathering information on terrorist networks...