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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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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.
Opinion | Misogyny is still rampant in the entertainment industry

Opinion | Misogyny is still rampant in the entertainment industry

By Raquel Padin-Nicholas, Staff Columnist • October 28, 2024
Interact with enough of the industry’s products, though, and you may start to notice a pattern — women are never held to the same standards as men.
Satire | Top 10 Halloween Couples Costumes and What They Say About Your Relationship

Satire | Top 10 Halloween Couples Costumes and What They Say About Your Relationship

By Alaina McCall, Senior Staff Columnist • October 28, 2024
More important than meeting the parents, more important than the Instagram hard launch and possibly more important than the wedding itself, is the couple’s Halloween costume. It tells more than you’d think about the state of a relationship — whether it’s in its playful beginning stage, the happy middle phase or the bitter ending state and everything in between. 
Opinion | Grieving Liam Payne

Opinion | Grieving Liam Payne

By Danae Poteat, Senior Staff Columnist • October 28, 2024
While I found myself grieving, I felt conflicted because I knew Liam Payne was not a good person. In my head, Payne is still the same person he was in One Direction because that’s how I want to remember him.
Opinion | So, what is frienship?

Opinion | So, what is frienship?

By Irene Moran, Senior Staff Columnist • October 28, 2024
We all have a variety of friends — best friends, close friends, casual friends, lifelong friends. Though, what really makes someone a friend?
Satire | The consequences of shrinkflation

Satire | The consequences of shrinkflation

By Alaina McCall, Senior Staff Columnist • October 25, 2024
At this point in the future, there have been thousands of recessions — which were really depressions — since the one in 2008. Inflation keeps raising prices.
Satire | America has the right to invade Cuba and should after they have expressed interest in joining BRICS

Satire | America has the right to invade Cuba and should after they have expressed interest in joining BRICS

By Alex Jurkuta, Contributing Editor • October 25, 2024
With all of this open hostility from the Eastern-backed Cuban government, it has become clear that the only option for the United States to protect its sphere of influence is to engage in a three-day special operation in order to de-commify Cuba and protect the persecuted ethnic Americans.
Opinion | Two coins or two faces?

Opinion | Two coins or two faces?

By Jake Vasilias, Staff Columnist • October 22, 2024
We are less than one month away from one of the most important elections in American history, and yet, it somehow feels futile.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Friday, Oct. 18, in Detroit.

Opinion | Election violence and the death of democracy

By Tessa Powers, Staff Columnist • October 21, 2024
The election is rapidly approaching, Harris and Trump are nearly tied in the states that will decide the next president of the United States and American politics seems to get more violent with each passing day.
Satire | Undecided voters having trouble choosing between Block of Wood and Baby Eater

Satire | Undecided voters having trouble choosing between Block of Wood and Baby Eater

By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • October 21, 2024
As the election draws near, many Pittsburgh voters are confident in their upcoming decision at the ballot box — but there is still a large sect of the population that can’t quite decide between their two options.
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