Take Madness: Round Two, Part Two

By The Pitt News Staff • April 7, 2026

Today is the second matchup of the second round of Take Madness, The Pitt News Sports Desk’s take on March Madness. In today’s edition, two representatives from the Sleepers division and two from...

Opinion | Then they came for me

By Harper Leary, Staff Columnist • April 7, 2026

Staff columnist Harper Leary discusses the irony of Trump voters facing the same policies they once supported.

‘We’re falling off a cliff’: Medicaid’s role in women’s health equity event reveals ramifications of ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

By Alexandra Keim, Staff Writer • January 30, 2026

On Jan. 28, over 80 students, professors and community members from across the nation attended a course on Medicaid’s role in advancing women’s, pregnant persons’ and infant’s health equity.

Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania temporarily closes three locations

By Maxine Van Nortwick, Senior Staff Writer  • January 20, 2026

PPWP will temporarily change service schedules at three Western PA locations amid a nationwide nursing shortage and political upheaval.

Rep. Summer Lee visits Pitt for student-led town hall

By Ella Pochron, Staff Writer  • November 11, 2025

On Monday, Nov. 10, Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Summer Lee answered students’ questions about current government affairs, including the national shutdown and clean energy in Pittsburgh. 

‘Chaos, confusion and instability:’ Pitt’s School of Law hosts panel on Trump’s executive orders

By Ella Pochron, Staff Writer  • October 15, 2025

Legal and public health experts said Trump's executive orders pose a threat to freedom of speech, access to health care and rights of immigrants during a panel at Barco Law Building Tuesday evening. 

Opinion | When death becomes a political weapon

By Tessa Powers, Assistant Opinions Editor • October 12, 2025

Charlie Kirk shouldn’t be dead. His death certainly shouldn’t have been filmed, and the footage shouldn’t have been circulated online before his body was cold. Further, the fallout following his...

Opinion | Democrats and Republicans are both villains

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • April 11, 2025

It's nice to revel in the good for a moment. To feel like our politicians are actually representing our will and making real, tangible change. To believe that, just maybe, our elected officials really do care about the people in this nation and not about holding onto power for just a little while longer. But we can’t let a single moment of action distract from a larger, troubling pattern of complacency.

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.