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Business
Aztec Rising: A Spanish-Language Network Makes TV Without Borders
From our winter issue, GOOD 025: The Next Big Thing
Culture
Project: Write a Poem
Let your language take a break from the daily grind and have a moment of glory. For this project, we're writing poetry.
Culture
The GOOD Guide to Hustlin': Why The Gap Year Isn’t Only For Rich Kids
You don't have to be a privileged hippie to save a few months of salary from a shitty job and stretch it out in a foreign country.
Culture
Whore, Prostitute, Hooker, or Sex Worker: What Should You Say?
The New York Post is being sued for calling DSK's accuser a "hooker." Should they have called her a "prostitute" instead?
Culture
France Bars the Words "Twitter" and "Facebook" from TV and Radio
If you're one of the many Americans who's grown tired of hearing media and tech insiders prattle on endlessly about Twitter and Facebook,...
Culture
How Not to Talk When You Talk About Rape
The IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in police custody in New York, but it's the people writing about him behaving criminally.
Education
The Pygmalion Effect: Does Calling It a "Failing School" Make It One?
There's been an incredible spike in the prevalence of the term “failing school”—and that label itself could be hurting our education system.
Culture
Geronimo! When Is It OK to Use a Term with Native American Roots?
Among the many aftershocks of the killing of Osama bin Laden was the controversy over the use of “Geronimo” as a code-name for the terrorist.
Culture
Can You Pass Harvard's 1869 Entrance Exam? (We Bet Not)
A glimpse into what it took to get a good education at the end of the Civil War.
Lifestyle
Unspeakable Bodily Fluids and Genitalia: A Short, Revolting Intro to the Finest Metaphors in British Food Criticism
A handful of the best examples of NSFW restaurant criticism from the U.K., along with some thoughts on why the hell it's so popular.
Education
Skype's New Education Platform Connects Classrooms Around the Globe
Teachers have long embraced Skype. Now the company is embracing them back with special features for educators.
Culture
Addicted to Addiction: A Word We’d Snort if We Could
The world has an obsession with "addiction", but what does that word even mean today?
Culture
Fascinating: The Definitive Explanation of Why Gaddafi's Name Is Spelled So Many Ways
Spelling the Libyan dictator's name is complicated by a "perfect storm" of linguistic issues.
Lifestyle
Dietary Supplements: Pork Inspiration and the Confessions of a Wine Label Writer
Estrogen-laced plastics and a look at the art of wine label writing in today's daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ. Enjoy!
Culture
Word Ma-Sheen: The Bi-Winner Gives the Lexicon Tiger Blood
On Charlie Sheen's linguistic acrobatics.
Culture
Screaming Yellow Zonkers! Green’s Dictionary is the Bible of Slang
Hilariously subversive (or subversively hilarious), a new slang dictionary challenges the sanctity of language by helping us laugh at life.
Culture
Snowpocalypse! Blizzaster! We’re Buried in Snow-perbole
The only thing more impressive than this winter's recent snowfall has been the hyperbolic language we've used to describe it.
Culture
The History of the Word Rape
The recently abandoned Republican efforts to distinguish between "rape" and "forcible rape" sheds light on the word's perceived shades of gray.
