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Opinion | How do we categorize the most livable cities?

By Emily O'Neil, Senior Staff Columnist • February 8, 2024

How can we place living into a category? The idea that everyone finds the same attributes of a city livable is questionable. Everyone has varying parameters and ways of living. How can we categorize livability when everyone’s ideal is so different?

Opinion | Sabbath traditions can remind us all that rest is sacred

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor • February 7, 2024

In the context of the hustle and bustle of family life, especially now that most two-parent households are also two-earner ones, celebrating a weekly holiday that requires a halt in the week’s work is a daunting task. But the reward is a day to focus on spirituality, family and rest.

Satire | Weaponizing incompetence against yourself

By Alaina McCall, Staff Columnist • February 6, 2024

Weaponized incompetence. Every girl in a bad relationship has dealt with this at least every day. But what is it? Ugh, I don’t know, and I don’t know how to look it up.

Opinion | Midwest emo music: A debate

By Irene Moran, Staff Columnist • February 5, 2024

Midwest emo is a subgenre that developed, as the name suggests, in the Midwest. I was recently involved in a debate with a group of people I know about whether Midwest emo is strictly geographical or if...

Opinion | I love ASMR and I don’t care who knows it

By Anna Fischer, Senior Staff Columnist • February 5, 2024

I have always struggled with insomnia — there is simply too much happening in my head at night. ASMR was the only thing that managed to quiet my mind, and to this day I watch it every night to fall asleep.

Opinion | Journalism is not a crime

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • February 2, 2024

Killing journalists is a war crime. There is not a single government or military in the world that is unaware of this fact. Press and media employees are meant to have immunity during military attacks, even in the extremely rare case that they are producing propaganda.

Opinion | Marvel has always been political

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • February 2, 2024

Marvel has always been “woke.” For decades, it has included and represented a wide range of races, genders, sexualities and disabilities. Throughout its pages, it has always engaged with current events and tackled politics.

Opinion | I have a love-hate relationship with cover letters

By Abigail Dobry, Senior Staff Columnist • February 1, 2024

I have a love-hate relationship with cover letters for job applications. Frankly, it’s mostly hate, but I am warming up to them. Job searching is tough as it is, and curating a personalized letter for almost every job is tiring.

Satire | Do interns even deserve to be paid in experience?

By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • January 31, 2024

Food and housing costs aren’t getting any lower, but with the job market growing more competitive than ever, some believe experience may have more monetary value than actual money.

Editorial | The fakeness of AI pornography intentionally fetishizes lack of consent

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • January 30, 2024

We often justify using celebrities’ likenesses in AI-generated videos or voice dubs because no reasonable person would believe they’re real. But in the case of deepfake pornography, this means of justification becomes the reason its consumers love it so much.