Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Natasha Pearlman, executive editor, Glamour
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Sidney Holt, executive director, American Society of Magazine Editors
  5. The Battle for Baby L.
  6. Rozina Ali
  7. New York Times Magazine
  8. WINNER—Reporting
  9. She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?
  10. Samantha Michaels
  11. Mother Jones
  12. FINALIST—Reporting
  13. Aristocrat Inc.
  14. Natalie So
  15. The Believer
  16. FINALIST—Feature Writing
  17. Monuments to the Unthinkable
  18. Clint Smith
  19. The Atlantic
  20. FINALIST—Columns and Essays
  21. The Landlord and the Tenant
  22. Raquel Rutledge and Ken Armstrong
  23. ProPublica and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  24. WINNER—Feature Writing
  25. Death Sentence
  26. Nicholas Florko
  27. Stat
  28. FINALIST—Public Interest
  29. The Time to Pass Paid Leave Is Now
  30. Natasha Pearlman
  31. Glamour
  32. WINNER—Public Interest
  33. A Post-Roe Threat and The Post-Roe Era and Is Abortion Sacred?
  34. Jia Tolentino
  35. New Yorker
  36. WINNER—Columns and Essays
  37. We Need to Take Away Children
  38. Caitlin Dickerson
  39. The Atlantic
  40. FINALIST—Public Interest
  41. The Militiamen, the Governor, and the Kidnapping That Wasn’t
  42. Chris Heath
  43. Esquire
  44. FINALIST—Feature Writing
  45. How a Nepo Baby Is Born
  46. Nate Jones
  47. New York
  48. WINNER—Lifestyle Journalism
  49. Tinder Hearted
  50. Allison P. Davis
  51. New York
  52. FINALIST—Columns and Essays
  53. Acid Church
  54. Courtney Desiree Morris
  55. Stranger’s Guide
  56. FINALIST—Columns and Essays
  57. “She’s Capital!”
  58. Namwali Serpell
  59. New York Review of Books
  60. WINNER—Reviews and Criticism
  61. Viola Davis, Inside Out
  62. Jazmine Hughes
  63. New York Times Magazine
  64. WINNER—Profile Writing
  65. Light and Shadow
  66. Raffi Khatchadourian
  67. New Yorker
  68. FINALIST—Profile Writing
  69. Winter Term
  70. Michelle de Kretser
  71. Paris Review
  72. WINNER—ASME Award for Fiction
  73. Untold
  74. Tom Junod and Paula Lavigne
  75. ESPN Digital
  76. FINALIST—Reporting
  77. Permissions
  78. List of Contributors