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 ...

Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Tree of Life shooting suspect used Gab, an extremist-friendly social media platform, to voice his anti-Semitic views. By Sunday night, Gab was no longer accessible as ...

Putin isn't driven by political logic — he acts on a grudge. And understanding the cause of the grudge could prove vital in ending it.

Being vegan isn’t necessarily more ethical or more sustainable than eating a diet that includes meat and other animal products. In fact, depending on people’s consumption choices, being vegan can be ...

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 ...

Due to immoral financial practices and the monstrous amount of money held by billionaires, no person with a billion dollars can be ethical.

One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and after four and a half online terms, Pitt grading policies and student and professor accommodations are hot topics.

The letter-grade system in grade schools should be replaced with a narrative system that will help students grow as learners.

Pittsburgh is often considered one of the premier sports cities in America — laden with a prosperous history of baseball, football and hockey championships. But the city was once home to a ...

Transgender scholar Deirdre McCloskey has dropped out of an on-campus debate against conservative political commentator Michael Knowles about “transgenderism and womanhood” next week, and the ...

Students at universities across the world saved hundreds of dollars each semester on textbooks with Z-Library — until the FBI shut it down earlier this month.

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 ...