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Opinion | Pay attention to the language of war

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • December 4, 2023

Language and its employment are not free from responsibility. Context must be applied, relentlessly. We need to question definitions and designations, what they reveal about who is setting them, and what it means to grant authority to those in that position.

276 killed in Somalia’s worst-ever bomb attack

By Robyn Dixon | Los Angeles Times (TNS) • October 15, 2017

Hundreds of Somalis marched in the streets of Mogadishu on Sunday to protest a deadly blast that killed 276 people in a busy shopping district in the country's deadliest single bomb attack. About 300...

Climate change should hit close to home

By Brian Gentry | For The Pitt News • September 18, 2017

The apple core I had just tossed had no sooner hit the bottom of the bin when I heard the familiar scolding from my mom. Once again, I had forgotten to put it in the compost bin. As a kid, I didn’t...

Scared to study abroad? Do it anyway

By Sarah Shearer | For The Pitt News • September 12, 2017

I was in the candy aisle of a bookstall April 19 when I first heard the emergency alarms and looked up to see the main concourse of London Euston Train Station in a dark frenzy. I grabbed my bag, shuffled...

Obama’s address: Keep guns out of extremists’ hands

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • December 6, 2015

Fighting terrorism has reached a “new phase” for the United States, President Obama said during his Oval Office address last night. As we have improved at gathering information on terrorist networks...