Pitt football columnist Alex Kiger pens his final column of the year on the college football season, writing about Pitt’s ...

Sports editor Matthew Scabilloni says his goodbye to The Pitt News and the University of Pittsburgh after his three years.

The name Boris Yeltsin should ring a bell, whether it brings to mind images of him leaping upon a tank during a coup in 1991 Moscow or standing drunk in his underpants in Washington, D.C. in 1995.

Mihrigul Tursun tearfully recalled on Tuesday the torture she suffered in the Uyghur Muslim concentration camps in Xinjiang, China. “I asked why I was in prison. I asked why I was tortured,” Tursun ...

All Pitt first-year students will now be required to take a course on anti-racism, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher announced in an email last Monday. The University is offering a one-credit, online ...

One of the guiding principles of my life is to not ask people what books they read because it either depresses me or makes me feel like a pretentious loser. Do I abide by it successfully? No. Is it ...

Slang is a beautiful thing that makes my little linguistics-loving heart very very happy. Today we have all sorts of words that we use to describe sex, from the classic “f—ing,” to screwing to banging ...

In a capitalist economy with few limits on how a person can acquire and maintain their wealth, we live with an abundance of billionaires. Social media, news sources and politics constantly bombard us ...

Even one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and after four and a half online terms, grading policies and student and professor accommodations remain hot topics among the Pitt community. Ilia ...

The Oct. 27, 2018, massacre of 11 Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life building — in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood and just under two miles from the Pitt campus — not only had ...

I nearly failed or did fail every math class I’ve ever taken. I can’t do simple mental math. I can’t keep numbers straight. I thought I was just bad at math and clumsy until I failed a math class in ...

Sydnee Ruley has saved hundreds of dollars over her four years at Pitt by getting her textbooks from the library — Z-Library, that is. “I was able to save a lot of money just using Z-Library and using ...