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Opinion | Climate change requires radical, immediate action

By Emma Hannan, Contributing Editor • April 1, 2025

Contributing editor Emma Hannan talks about the effects of climate change and the actions cities like Pittsburgh need to take.

Opinion | The attacks on national parks reflect an underlying push toward isolation and ignorance

By Brynn Murawski, Staff Columnist • April 1, 2025

The policies enacted by the current administration reveal a wider theme of isolating all of us from each other for the sake of capital gain.

Opinion | Elon Musk has succumbed to the anti-woke mind virus

By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • March 31, 2025

The idea of a political mind virus is intriguing, and if we chart his personal history, I believe Musk more than anyone else exhibits the most symptoms of a politically induced neurodegenerative disease — an anti-woke mind virus.

Editorial | The GPT-4 Studio Ghibli trend again reveals a horrible misappreciation for human-made art

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 31, 2025

Ignoring the potential violations and oversteps of copyright law, the ability to immediately generate images in an artist’s specific style completely waters down the messaging and intentions of their work.

Opinion | Gen Z is falling short of who we were destined to become

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • March 28, 2025

We were so close to a bright future, a future of inclusion and progress, but we’re on a path of failure. It appears as if we are falling short of who we were destined to become.

Editorial | There is no place for Nazism in the city of Pittsburgh

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 28, 2025

In an era of performative activism and Instagram repost warriors, Pitt students and the Pittsburgh community have a real chance to make a difference and speak up for what they believe in — that Nazism has no place in our city.

Opinion | We need to include trans women in our feminism

By Grace Harris, Senior Staff Columnist • March 25, 2025

As a feminist myself, I think we have lost sight of the movement.

Opinion | Pitt student staples that didn’t win TPN’s ‘Best Of’ this year

By The Pitt News Staff • March 25, 2025

University of Pittsburgh students have spoken, and the results for the best Pittsburgh and Oakland staples are in! Unfortunately, the opinions desk can never just be happy with the results, so we have to share a few of our favorites who didn’t quite win TPN’s “Best Of” poll.

Opinion | The pressure to go to grad school as a nursing student

By Danae Poteat, Senior Staff Columnist • March 24, 2025

There is a strange pressure in nursing academia to push yourself out of bedside nursing as soon as possible. More experienced nurses will tell you that bedside nursing should not be what you do for the rest of your life and that you’ll be miserable if you try to stick with it. It’s almost like a coercion statement they make to put in your head that you’ll never be happy unless you get a master's degree.

Opinion | Stop being afraid of the word ‘socialism’

By Emma Hannan, Contributing Editor • March 24, 2025

We are taught to believe that while capitalism isn’t perfect, it’s the best alternative. The constant fight for equality and livable wages is the natural way of life that prevents society from collapsing in on itself. However, in reality, capitalism keeps every person disconnected and isolated as the companies prosper.