Editorial | This is the real border crisis

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • June 26, 2019

Democrats and Republicans need to throw their ideological differences away in order to ensure that people arriving at the border are, at the very least, being treated humanely.

Opinion | Know violence in vocabulary

By Leah Mensch, Staff Columnist • March 19, 2019

In Mexico City, Valeria Luiselli is a name most households know and love. In the United States, the author is lesser known, though that’s begun to change.

Editorial: Trump defies bipartisanship for border fiction

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 6, 2019

Despite the triumphs made in the last year, Trump’s address only further displayed eagerness to use falsehoods to stoke fear and xenophobic anger to accomplish his political ends.

Editorial: Trump’s test of emergency powers

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • January 11, 2019

The National Emergencies Act of 1976 was originally passed to provide a check on presidential power while codifying specific constraints under which presidents could declare states of emergency. Congress must enforce this intent.

Editorial: Separating families is unethical no matter how it’s handled

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • June 20, 2018

Reporters were recently permitted to visit to a shelter in Texas housing 1,500 migrant boys who crossed the southern U.S. border illegally. The children staying in the shelter have been deemed “unaccompanied...