The Year in Sports Controversies

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• Lifestyle

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Food Stories

  Ten food stories you should read this year (or next year).

  by Peter Smith

• Environment

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Clean Energy

  It was a record year for solar power, but we also had the Deepwater Horizon spill. A look back at the major events in energy in 2010.

  by Andrew Price

• Culture

  

  Cricket Sticks a Wicket in the American Sports Scene

  “There is a limit to what Americans can understand. The limit is cricket.”   So says a character in Netherland, Joseph O’Neill’s acclaimed 2008...

  by Zach Dundas

• Cities

  

  Football in Los Angeles: Do Professional Sports Benefit Cities?

  AEG envisions a world class event center and football stadium (and NFL team) in downtown L.A. But will it benefit the city?

  by Patrick James

• Lifestyle

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Food

  From foraging to First Lady's anti-obesity campaign, the year in good eating, drinking, and thinking.

  by Peter Smith

• Culture

  

  Should Quidditch be an NCAA Sport? The Real-Life World Cup of a Fictional Sport

  Thousands of somewhat athletic Harry Potter fans donned silly outfits and custom brooms to participate in the real life Quidditch World Cup.

  by Allison Burtch

• Culture

  @GOOD Ask Readers: If You Could Participate in the 2010 Winter Olympics, Which Sport Would You Play?

  by GOOD

• Education

  

  Mind the Gap Year: Global Citizen Year Turns 18-Year-Olds into Future Leaders

  Abby Falik wants a year abroad between high school and college to be as mainstream a pursuit as Teach for America.

  by Zak Stone

• News

  

  Boys' Clubhouse: Why Women Should Write About Sports

  The boys’ club nature of sports journalism contributes to some serious blind spots in its coverage.

  by Megan Greenwell

• Environment

  

  More Oil Spilled in Nigeria Every Year than in the Gulf of Mexico

  From Boing Boing comes this video, by Al Jazeera, which offers one look at a legal battle between a resident of the polluted Niger Delta and...

  by Patrick James

• Education

  

  Year in Review 2010: Urban School District Leadership in Transition

  Almost every major urban school districts saw leadership shakeups this year. Here are some of the biggest.

  by Liz Dwyer

• News

  

  One Night in Bangkok, 500 Years in a Refugee Camp

  Samy is in Bangkok—over 100 miles away from the one place he’s ever legally allowed to be. After Google Latitudes abruptly alerted me to the...

  by Brian Merchant

• Education

  

  Year in Review 2010: California Set the Trends in Education

  The state that brought you Lauren Conrad, the Black Eyed Peas, and gangster rap goes hard with education reform, too.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Design

  

  Controversial Cartography

  We hope you've had a moment or two to click your way through our interactive map feature, Wanderlust. That in mind, we just noticed that Mental...

  by Patrick James

• Design

  

  Upside-Down Church Controversy

  A sculpture of a church standing upside-down on its steeple, by artist Dennis Oppenheim, was refused by both New York City and Stanford University...

  by Andrew Price

• Business

  

  The New Controversy Over Microfinance

    We talk a lot on this site about the balance between doing good and doing well. We love when major corporations use their influence to help...

  by Joe Ippolito

• Education

  

  Costumed Controversy: Should Schools Celebrate Halloween?

  Halloween is here, but is your local school celebrating it? Maybe not.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Environment

  

  Brazil's Controversial Hydroelectric Dam Worries Environmentalists

  Despite concerns from environmentalists, indigenous leaders, and Sting, Brazil has confirmed construction of a new hydroelectric dam in the Amazon...

  by Alicia Capetillo

• Business

  

  How HuffPo's Crowdsourcing Controversy Hurts Designers—and Ultimately Itself

  Attempts to crowdsource design work hurt both designers and the companies looking for a free lunch.

  by Dylan C. Lathrop

• Business

  

  TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?

  Real talk about rich people is the last sacred cow at conference where the entry fee starts at $7,500—and reaches heights of $125,000.

  by Tim Fernholz