Foreword copyright © 2020 by David Cole
“No More Flags” copyright © 2020 by Viet Thanh Nguyen
“Scottsboro, USA” copyright © 2020 by Jacqueline Woodson
“The Dirtiest, Most Indecent, Obscene Thing Ever Written” copyright © 2020 by Michael Chabon
“The Brother-in-Law” copyright © 2020 by Ann Patchett
“Victory Formation” copyright © 2020 by Brit Bennett
“The Nail” copyright © 2020 by Steven Okazaki
“A Short Essay About Shorts” copyright © 2020 by Daniel Handler
“They Talk Like That” copyright © 2020 by Geraldine Brooks
“Rocket City” copyright © 2020 by Yaa Gyasi
“One Will Be Provided for You” copyright © 2020 by Sergio De La Pava
“Legal Counsel at the Moment Most Crucial” copyright © 2020 by Dave Eggers
“How the First Amendment Finally Got its Wings” copyright © 2020 by Timothy Egan
“Your Mail Belongs to Us” copyright © 2020 by Yiyun Li
“Protection” copyright © 2020 by Meg Wolitzer
“Ernesto’s Prayer” copyright © 2020 by Hector Tobar
“Loving” copyright © 2020 by Aleksandar Hemon
“The Black Armband” copyright © 2020 by Elizabeth Strout
“Crowd Work” copyright © 2020 by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
“The Right to Offend” copyright © 2020 by Rabih Alameddine
“On Jews, Blacks, the KKK, Ohio, and Freedom of Speech” copyright © 2020 by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
“Disturbing the War” copyright © 2020 by Jonathan Lethem
“Secrets and Lies” copyright © 2020 by Salman Rushdie
“The Ambivalent Activist, Jane Roe” copyright © 2020 by Lauren Groff
“A Nondangerous Person” copyright © 2020 by Ayelet Waldman
“Father Sues for ‘Mother’s Benefits’ ” copyright © 2020 by Jennifer Egan
“Spending Money Isn’t Speech” copyright © 2020 by Scott Turow
“Bob Jones Builds a Wall” copyright © 2020 by Morgan Parker
“Some Gods Are Better Than Others” copyright © 2020 by Victor LaValle
“Queer, Irish, Marching” copyright © 2020 by Michael Cunningham
“ ‘Because Girls Can Read as Well as Boys’ ” copyright © 2020 by Neil Gaiman
“We Gather” copyright © 2020 by Jesmyn Ward
“Stateside Statelessness” copyright © 2020 by Moses Sumney
“The Way the Law Leads Us” copyright © 2020 by George Saunders
“Live from the Bedroom” copyright © 2020 by Marlon James
“Habeas, Guantánamo, and the Forever War” copyright © 2020 by William Finnegan
“Who’s Your Villain?” copyright © 2020 by Anthony Doerr
“You’ve Given Me a Lot to Think About” copyright © 2020 by Charlie Jane Anders
“Relative Sovereignty” copyright © 2020 by Brenda J. Child
“We Love You, Edie Windsor!” copyright © 2020 by Andrew Sean Greer
“Surveillance Capitalism Versus Indigenous-Led Protest” copyright © 2020 by Louise Erdrich