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More Reflections on 2013

This week we’ve been bringing you some of our thoughts on 2013: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Here are a few more ThinkProgress items you might find of interest as the year comes to a close.

Travis Waldron from ThinkProgress Sports, a new section launched this year, writes about the most influential man in sports in 2013. It’s probably not who you think it is. He also took a look back on the year in sportswriting.

Building on her earlier pieces on the year in books and movies, today Alyssa Rosenberg focuses on the year in television.

Writing over at Climate Progress, Emily Atkin takes a deep dive on 45 fossil fuel disasters the industry doesn’t want you to know about. On the positive side of the ledger, Kiley Kroh and Jeff Spross look at 13 major clean energy breakthroughs in 2013.

While House Republicans refused to take up immigration reform this year, Esther Yu-Hsi Lee and Rebecca Leber highlight 8 of this year’s wins on immigration. 2013 also saw the Obama administration’s record pace of deportations slow.

Was 2013 a good year to be an international journalist? Annie-Rose Strasser details the threats journalists faced this year.

Tomorrow, we’ll be back at you with some final thoughts on 2013 before the Progress Report takes a break for the holidays.

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2013

It’s that time of year again. ThinkProgress has started its series of items looking back at 2013.

Here are a few you should check out.

Yesterday, Alyssa Rosenberg brought you the best and worst books of 2013, including much-discussed titles like Lean In as well as others that you may not have heard so much about.

Today, Alyssa rolled her list of 14 great movies from the past year. This list also mixes well-known films like Zero Dark Thirty with others like Wadjda , the first feature film shot in Saudi Arabia, and Twenty Feet From Stardom, a documentary about backup singers.

Finally, Adam Peck rounds up some of the most iconic photos of 2013.