On February 9, Arlington Public Schools (APS) Superintendent Dr. Francisco Durán announced the phased return dates for students who have opted into the hybrid learning model. Almost a year after the pandemic first shuttered our school buildings, many students will finally resume in-person learning. The...

By all accounts, Super Bowl LV should have been one of the great games of the modern football era. It was a game that was to put an end to prominent discussions: the place of Tom Brady in the post-Patriots era and the staying power of Patrick Mahomes following his meteoric rise to fame. Most importantly,...

No other time in recent memory has America been more ideologically divided than it is today; traveling from coast to coast may as well be a journey through entirely disparate nations as the dramatic rifts among the beliefs of the public become all too apparent. This phenomenon is uniquely modern, a reflection...

Barely two miles from our school stands a grim remembrance of Arlington’s dark past: a stone-gray wall, now a historical marker, that once separated black residents from white residents. The blunt, shameful reminder of racial segregation sits on the edge of the historically black Halls Hill neighborhood,...

Fast fashion -- a term used to define the process of retail giants selling inexpensive clothing to consumers in massive quantities in response to the fluctuation of trends -- is a large issue that only keeps growing. Due to the allure of low prices and higher production rates, most mainstream clothing...