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Introduction, by Adam Moss Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors A Betrayal, by Hannah Dreier, ProPublica , copublished with New York, Finalist--Public Interest American Hustler, by Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, Finalist--Reporting A Kingdom from Dust, by Mark Arax, The California Sunday Magazine, Finalist-- Feature Writing Shallow Graves and An Interview with Ben Taub by Eric Sullivan, by Ben Taub, The New Yorker, Winner--Reporting The Genocide the U.S. Didn't See Coming, by Nahal Toosi, Politico, Finalist--Reporting We Made It. We Depend on It. We're Drowning in It. Plastic, by Laura Parker, National Geographic, Finalist-- Public Interest The First Porn President and I Believe Her and The Abandoned World of 1982, by Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, Finalist--Columns and Commentary Misjudged, by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, Finalist--Essays and Criticism The National Geographic Twins and the Falsehood of Our Post-Racial Future and The Profound Presence of Doria Ragland and The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Will Be Remembered as a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment, by Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, Winner--Columns and Comentary This Place Is Crazy, by John J. Lennon, Esquire, Finalist--Feature Writing Getting Out of Prison Meant Leaving Dear Friends Behind, by Robert Wright, The Marshall Project with Vice, Finalist--Columns and Commentary Getting Out, by Reginald Dwayne Betts, New York Times Magazine, Winner--Essays and Criticism How to Be an Artist, by Jerry Saltz, New York, Winner--Leisure Interests The Art of Dying Well, by Kasey Cordell and Lindsey B.Koehler, 5280, Winner--Personal Service Taming the Lionfish, by Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, Finalist--Feature Writing The Breakup Museum, by Leslie Jamison, Virginia Quarterly Review, Finalist--Essays and Criticism Skinned, by Lesley Nneka Arimah, and A Conversation with McSweeney's Claire Boyle and Karolina Waclawiak, by The ASME Award for Fiction, McSweeney's, Winner--ASME Award for Fiction Permissions List of Contributors