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Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Legislative Conference on March 12, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

Editorial: Don’t dismiss Biden allegations

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
April 2, 2019
National Rifle Association logo.

Editorial: Closing the boyfriend loophole could save partners of abusers

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
April 1, 2019
Top 10: Things to lobby for in Harrisburg

Top 10: Things to lobby for in Harrisburg

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 28, 2019
President Donald Trump participates in a health care roundtable event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C. Trump announced Tuesday that he wanted to make the GOP the party of health care.

Editorial: The GOP isn’t the healthcare party

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 26, 2019
Sydney Aiello, a 19-year-old Parkland shooting survivor, killed herself Sunday.

Editorial: Shooting survivors need more mental health resources

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 25, 2019
Following Michael Rosfeld’s acquittal on Friday night, protests continued in Oakland Saturday afternoon.

Editorial: Rosfeld decision isn’t surprising, still disappointing

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 24, 2019
Top 10: People we would actually support for president

Top 10: People we would actually support for president

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 21, 2019
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a civil suit against the state’s singular Roman Catholic diocese and a retired top bishop on Tuesday.

Editorial: West Virginia gets creative holding Church accountable for abuse

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 20, 2019
Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) during a debate with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at McFarlin Auditorium at Southern Methodist University in Dallas on Sept. 21, 2018.

Editorial: Stop calling Beto O’Rourke a progressive candidate

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 19, 2019
William “Rick” Singer leaves Boston Federal Court after being charged with racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice last Tuesday in Boston. Singer is among several charged in an alleged college admissions scam.

Editorial: Admissions scandal not surprising

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 18, 2019
Najeeba Syeed, left, of Los Angeles, hugs Judy Gilliland, of Lakewood, California, during a news conference at The Islamic Center of Los Angeles on Friday, March 15. Muslims and people of all faiths came together in prayer at The Islamic Center of Los Angeles one day after the shooting in a mosque in New Zealand killed 50 people.

Editorial: Rise in white nationalism fed by politicians

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 17, 2019
The Allegheny City Council introduced legislation to ban conversion therapy for minors on Tuesday.

Editorial: Conversion therapy ban a good first step

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 6, 2019
Tornado damage in Smiths Station, Alabama. Trump’s approach to the disaster in Alabama comes in stark contrast to his harmful rhetoric and actions toward other states that have experienced catastrophic natural disasters of their own.

Editorial: Trump makes empty promise for “A Plus” emergency relief

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 6, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity at a “Make America Great Again” rally in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on Nov. 5, 2018.

Editorial: Fox-Trump relationship unethical, dangerous

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 4, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during Conservative Political Action Conference 2019 on March 2 in National Harbor, Maryland. The American Conservative Union hosts the annual CPAC to discuss conservative agendas.

Editorial: Executive order for free speech would do more harm than good

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 3, 2019
Top 10: Things Pitt should be matching

Top 10: Things Pitt should be matching

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 1, 2019
Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 27.

Editorial: Don’t ignore Cohen’s testimony

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 27, 2019
Demonstrators hold a sign in Squirrel Hill on Oct. 30, 2018, after the Tree of Life shooting.

Editorial: Focus on hate crimes, not Smollett

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 27, 2019
A Planned Parenthood location in April 2017.

Editorial: Trump’s gag rule unethical, harms women

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 25, 2019
Robert Kraft was charged Friday on two counts of soliciting sex as part of a larger investigation of prostitution and suspected human trafficking in Jupiter, Florida.

Editorial: Human trafficking is a bigger problem than we’d like to admit

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 24, 2019
Top 10: Space Force Objectives

Top 10: Space Force Objectives

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 22, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announced Tuesday he would join a growing field of Democratic candidates in a bid for the presidency in 2020.

Editorial: Sanders isn’t the answer for 2020

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 21, 2019
Keith Burris, who published an editorial last year headlined “Reason as racism,” will assume the additional duty of executive editor of the Post-Gazette.

Editorial: Post-Gazette executive editor threatens newspaper integrity

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 20, 2019
Tuesday’s public SGB meeting.

Editorial: Don’t forget to vote in SGB election

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 18, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump declares a national emergency to build his promised border wall during a Feb. 15 press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Editorial: The wall isn’t a national emergency

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 17, 2019
The interior of the now closed 7-Eleven on Forbes Avenue.

Top 10: Master plan must-haves

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 14, 2019
A vial containing the MMR vaccine is loaded into a syringe before being given to a baby at the Medical Arts Pediatric Med Group in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2015.

Editorial: Let’s talk about measles

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 13, 2019
Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — one of two Muslim women recently elected to the House of Representatives — awaits the start of the 116th Congress on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 3 in Washington, D.C.

Editorial: Pro-Palestine doesn’t mean anti-Semitic

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 11, 2019
A poll worker gets “I Voted” stickers ready to hand to voters as they finish up at the ballot booths.

Editorial: Adopt paid Election Day nationwide

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 10, 2019
Tacos from the recently reopened Oakland Las Palmas location.

Top 5 / Bottom 5: Las Palmas

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 8, 2019
A Code Orange air quality alert appeared on many smartphones and weather apps on Saturday.

Editorial: Air quality concerns require stronger action

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 7, 2019
President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of the Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 5.

Editorial: Trump defies bipartisanship for border fiction

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 6, 2019
A 10-milligram tablet of OxyContin-branded oxycodone.

Editorial: Big Pharma must be stopped

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 5, 2019
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, with his wife Pam at his side, said at a news conference in the Executive Mansion on Saturday, Feb. 2, that he is not the person in the racist photo in the East Virginia Medical School yearbook and he will not resign.

Editorial: Northam’s racist photo is inexcusable

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 3, 2019
Crows perch on the trees outside the William Pitt Union.

Top 10: Reasons to cancel classes

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 31, 2019
On Wednesday morning, students were alerted about classes’ cancellation just after 7:30 a.m. The University plans to continue normal operations today.

Editorial: Pitt needs to handle the cold better

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 30, 2019
Three bills introduced in December by Erika Strassburger and Corey O’Connor meant to ban assault weapons and accessories contained parts of ineffective and outdated laws.

Editorial: City leaders must be transparent in gun control battle

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 29, 2019
Duke University’s professor Megan Neely is currently under scrutiny for sending an email to Duke biostatistics students about international students speaking Chinese in study areas.

Editorial: Duke professor’s email is xenophobic, discriminatory

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 28, 2019
Controversial comedian Louis C.K. performed a three-show tour at Pittsburgh Improv in Homestead this past weekend.

Editorial: Hosting Louis C.K. reflects badly on Pittsburgh

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 27, 2019
Stacy Parks Miller, former Centre County district attorney, with James and Evelyn Piazza, parents of Timothy Piazza, 19, of Readington Township, New Jersey, during a news conference at the Bellefonte courthouse.

Editorial | Pitt’s hazing report fails student safety

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 25, 2019
Three cartoons published by Post-Gazette cartoonist Steve Kelley in the last week have been criticized for perpetuating stereotypes against women.

Editorial: Post-Gazette cartoons don’t speak for Pittsburgh

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 23, 2019
The Chancellor’s residence on 718 Devonshire St.

Editorial | Gallagher needs to pay it forward

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 21, 2019
Coke is used as fuel for iron ore smelting and metalworking processes.

Editorial: To protect Mon Valley, U.S. Steel must change

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 18, 2019
More than a dozen swastikas were drawn in the snow on car hoods last January on Meyran Avenue.

Editorial: Pitt is no place for hate

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 16, 2019
U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa during the annual American Conservative Union CPAC on March 3, 2016, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

Editorial | GOP hard on King, soft on Trump

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 16, 2019
Editorial: Trump administration threatens women's health care

Editorial: Trump administration threatens women’s health care

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 15, 2019
From left, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bill Nelson respond to cheering supporters as Biden headlined a rally for Democrats in downtown Orlando, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018.

Editorial: Democratic newcomers need to learn from 2016 mistakes

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 13, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to the press before departing the White House to visit the Texas border as the federal government shutdown continues on Thursday.

Editorial: Trump’s test of emergency powers

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 11, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump, center, talks to the press after the Republican luncheon at the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Editorial: The real consequences of Trump’s fake crisis

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 10, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House.

Editorial: Trump’s border security the wrong answer to real problems

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 9, 2019
A sign announcing closure of the National Archives due to a partial government shutdown is displayed on Dec. 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Editorial: Trump needs to compromise on wall

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 7, 2019
Editorial: Tumblr's moderation efforts miss the mark

Editorial: Tumblr’s moderation efforts miss the mark

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 7, 2018
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, center, speaks on the findings of the grand jury report on child sexual abuse in six Catholic dioceses at the State Capitol, with 16 victims or family members of victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests seated on stage with him on Aug. 14.

Editorial | Ruling protecting priest anonymity unfair to victims

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 6, 2018
The Pittsburgh City Council’s recently passed Registered Community Organizations ordinance is intended to allow community groups to have input in city planning and development.

Editorial | Pittsburgh ordinance stifles community voices

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 5, 2018
Inger Stojberg — the Danish minister for immigration, integration and housing — referred to those contributing to the influx in Denmark’s immigrant population as “undesirable” and a “nuisance.”

Editorial | Denmark immigration policy inhumane

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 4, 2018
Hundreds of untested rape kits are stored at the Seattle Police Department’s evidence warehouse.

Editorial: Destruction of rape kits unjust to victims

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 30, 2018
The Gab logo.

Editorial | Gab back online: a public safety hazard

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 29, 2018
President Donald Trump answers questions from the media before departing the White House on Monday.

Editorial | Trump calls for state TV network: a dictator move

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 28, 2018
The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to bypass the lower courts and take the president’s military ban for transgender citizens upon itself.

Editorial: Trump fundamentally misunderstands role of justice system

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 27, 2018
Eulalia Dalila Pojoy Cuyuch, 33, of Guatemala (far right) and her family say goodbye to a friend as they wait along the border fence to turn themselves into U.S. Customs on June 14, asking for asylum in Tijuana, Mexico.

Editorial: Troops not necessary to welcome migrant caravan

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 26, 2018
Editorial: How to handle relatives at Thanksgiving

Editorial: How to handle relatives at Thanksgiving

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 19, 2018
An El Dorado County search and rescue team looks for the remains of a body in Magalia's West Park Drive on Thursday after the Camp Fire burned many homes in the area.

Editorial: Trump wrongly blames forest management for fires

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 18, 2018
Serena Williams celebrates during her women's singles fourth-round victory against Kaia Kanepi at the 2018 U.S. Open on Sunday, Sept. 2, in Flushing Meadows, New York.

Editorial: GQ’s “Woman” of the Year cover insensitive

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 16, 2018
Ben Shapiro spoke at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

Editorial: Proposed YAF lawsuit against Pitt unnecessary, harmful

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 15, 2018
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto recently announced the City’s plan to release its Amazon bid to the public, after months of refusing and claiming it contained trade secrets.

Editorial: Peduto to release Amazon bid: too little, too late

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 14, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron were photographed together at an event in Paris on July 13, 2017.

Editorial: Heed Macron’s warning about nationalism

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 13, 2018
A White House staff member (left) tries to take away the microphone from CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta during an exchange with President Donald Trump on Nov. 7 in Washington, D.C.

Editorial: Attack on Acosta is an attack on all media

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 9, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions looks on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House on Oct. 17.

Editorial: Sessions’ resignation could curb Russia investigation

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 8, 2018
Nearly 600 people voted at the Posvar Hall polling location.

Editorial: Young people turn out: Pa. blue wave becomes tsunami

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 7, 2018
Editorial: Why TPN didn't endorse candidates for midterm elections

Editorial: Why TPN didn’t endorse candidates for midterm elections

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 6, 2018
Then-deputy Jair Bolsonaro argued with Maria do Rosario during a general commission in the Chamber of Deputies while discussing violence against women.

Editorial: Bolsonaro threatens democracy

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 5, 2018
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump disembark from Air Force One in Coraopolis around 4 p.m. on Tuesday.

Editorial: Executive order on birthright citizenship unconstitutional

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 1, 2018
Editorial: Top 5 reasons to keep Halloween on Oct. 31

Editorial: Top 5 reasons to keep Halloween on Oct. 31

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 31, 2018
Emily DeFerrari of Point Breeze handed out flowers to mourners, holding a sign reading "antisemitism = white nationalism” at Tuesday’s march in Squirrel Hill.

Editorial: Trump’s divisiveness, insensitivity provokes protests in Pittsburgh

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 31, 2018
Peaceful protesters handed flowers that read “#LoveTRUMPSHate” to Trump supporters at a protest outside the David Lawrence Convention Center on April 16, 2016, where Trump was expected to speak.

Editorial: Pittsburgh doesn’t welcome Trump

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 29, 2018
Mourners embrace after the Saturday night vigil for the victims of the shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue ends.

Editorial: Pittsburgh will heal

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 28, 2018
NBC journalist Megyn Kelly interviewed Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Moscow Kremlin on March 1.

Editorial: Megyn Kelly reveals racist attitudes

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 26, 2018
The entrance to vote at the Herbert C. Young Community Center polling place in Cary, North Carolina, on Nov. 6, 2012.

North Carolina voting laws suppress minorities

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 24, 2018
Protesters gathered in front of the White House after Trump’s proposed military ban against transgender people in the summer of 2017.

Editorial: HHS proposal threatens transgender rights

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 23, 2018
A Tomahawk cruise missile from a 2002 test firing off the coast of California. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

Editorial: Leaving nuclear treaty is a mistake

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 21, 2018
Seated on the stage with 14 other sexual abuse victims during a news conference on the findings of the Grand Jury Report on Child Sexual Abuse in six Catholic Dioceses in Pennsylvania at the State Capital on Aug. 14, two members of the Fortney family console each other as Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro describes the abuse their family suffered at the hands of Father Gus Giella.

Editorial: Pa. response to church abuse insufficient

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 19, 2018
(Image by Thomas Yang | Assistant Visual Editor)

Editorial: Riding high: United States should follow Canada’s pot legalization

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 17, 2018
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., points toward the subway in the U.S. Capitol on May 24 in Washington, D.C. (Ron Sachs/CNP/Zuma Press/TNS)

Editorial: Elizabeth Warren DNA test in poor taste

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 16, 2018
A poll worker gets “I Voted” stickers ready to hand to voters as they finish up at the ballot booths.

Editorial: North Dakota law disenfranchises voters

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 15, 2018
News reports from 2015 suggest Exxon Mobile conducted several studies on climate change. Eighty percent of the studies determined human activities worsen climate change, but the majority of those released to the public suggest the phenomena is a sham.

Editorial: Immediate action necessary to limit affects of climate change

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 11, 2018
Mark Salvas, former executive director of the Allegheny County Democratic Committee, showed support for the Confederate flag in social media posts from 2015.

Editorial: Victory for Democrats: Racist committee member resigns

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 11, 2018
Taylor Swift performs on Dec. 10, 2017, in London. (Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment/Abaca Press/TNS)

Editorial: Taylor Swift: voting champion, politically ignorant

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 10, 2018
President Donald J. Trump signs the $1.5 trillion tax cut bill, stacked on his desk, in the Oval Office on December 22, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The New York Times recently released an investigative report that confirmed Trump committed approximately $413 million of tax evasion over several years.

Editorial: Trump’s tax fraud should concern Americans

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 9, 2018
Retired Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, administers the Judicial Oath to Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh in the Justices' Conference Room at the Supreme Court Building on Saturday in Washington, DC.

Editorial: Kavanaugh hearings betrayed America’s trust

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 8, 2018
Alex Trebek attends SNL’s 40th Anniversary Celebration at Rockefeller Plaza Feb. 15, 2015.

Editorial: Stop treating politics like a game show

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 4, 2018
(Photo by Thomas Yang | Assistant Visual Editor)

Editorial: Amazon sets great example, raises minimum wage

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 3, 2018
Editorial: Campus Master Plan requires strong community involvement

Editorial: Campus Master Plan requires strong community involvement

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 1, 2018
Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 5. (Christy Bowe/Globe Photos/Zuma Press/TNS)

Editorial: Kavanaugh disqualifies himself

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 30, 2018
JK Rowling attended the EE British Academy Film Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK on Feb. 12, 2017.

Rowling’s retconning is unnecessary

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 27, 2018
The Mattress Factory Annex Gallery on Monterey Street. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

Editorial: Mattress Factory mishandles sexual assault allegations

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 27, 2018
Bill Cosby is taken to jail to be processed after being sentenced in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. (Tim Tai/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

Editorial: Cosby conviction empowers sexual assault victims

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 25, 2018
Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win the nomination for president from a major party in the United States on the final night of the Democratic National Convention on July 28, 2016. The State Board of Education in Texas voted Friday to remove Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller, as well as other historical figures, from the curriculum.

Editorial: Texas schools to erase important historical figures

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 24, 2018
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services — an agency of the Department of Homeland Security — has an office located in Atlanta. The department recently added stipulations which will prevent immigrants who rely on government assistance from obtaining green cards.

Editorial: New immigration proposal is unnecessarily strict

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 23, 2018
Bert and Ernie perform in a scene in the 1978 TV special, “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.”

Editorial: ‘Sesame Street’ misses educational opportunity

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 20, 2018
Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 5. (Christy Bowe/Globe Photos/Zuma Press/TNS)

Editorial: Kavanaugh sexual assault investigation necessary

By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 20, 2018
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