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The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
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
What Trump fails to recognize in all this is that there is no crisis at the border. His national emergency creates far more problems than it solves and is a complete overextension of executive powers.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a news conference on Nov. 2, 2017, in New York.

Opinion | New York sets example with new abortion law

By Delilah Bourque, Senior Staff Columnist • February 11, 2019
The legislation is a landmark victory in the fight for women’s reproductive health-care rights.
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
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.
Opinion | Bashing millennials is a risky move for Trump

Opinion | Bashing millennials is a risky move for Trump

By Julia Kreutzer, For The Pitt News • January 29, 2019
The last thing Trump should do is criticize a generation that could, and likely will, mobilize against him next November.
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
The Republican leadership likely hopes their actions against King will be seen as a genuine stand against white supremacy, not something done when it is politically convenient. The GOP’s silence on Trump says otherwise.
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to the press on the South Lawn as he returns to the White House on Monday in Washington, D.C.

Opinion | Schumer and Pelosi are hypocritical in fight for border wall

By Hayden Timmins, Staff Columnist • January 14, 2019
Schumer and Pelosi seem more comfortable with spending taxpayers’ dollars on useless projects rather than giving Trump 0.14 percent of the yearly budget to help prevent the illegal entry and re-entry of criminals
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
Trump is both a hypocrite and wrong to blame Democrats for a lack of resolution to the shutdown, and the longer he blames others for a problem created entirely by himself, the more people he puts at risk.
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
President Donald Trump’s first prime-time address was his opportunity to make a case for his border security plan. Instead, it highlighted just how little Trump understood the problems he hoped a border wall would fix.
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
Trump needs to put aside his ego long enough to agree to a compromise, or else the consequences of a prolonged government shutdown will be serious for many Americans.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Opinion | Trump must push out Venezuela’s dictator

By Josh Beylinson, For The Pitt News • December 6, 2018
Only with more strategic sanctions and further diplomatic action against Venezuela’s dictator can the country become a democracy and give the right of self-determination to its citizens.
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