Annals of Justice
Prepping for Parole

A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.

by Jennifer Gonnerman

Annals of Gastronomy
Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables?

No diet has been more obsessively studied, more fiercely controlled, or more anxiously stage-managed than baby food. Yet we still get it wrong.

by Burkhard Bilger

Annals of Media
The Growth of Sinclair’s Conservative Media Empire
The company has achieved formidable reach by focussing on small markets where its TV stations can have a big influence.
by Sheelah Kolhatkar

Annals of Education
The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action
With a lawsuit against Harvard, Asian-American activists have formed an alliance with a white conservative to change higher education.
by Hua Hsu

Annals of the Mind
The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages
What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?
by Judith Thurman

Annals of Law Enforcement
The Renegade Sheriffs
A law-enforcement movement that claims to answer only to the Constitution.
by Ashley Powers

Annals of Technology
Christopher Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
How do we fix life online without limiting free speech?
by Andrew Marantz

Annals of Education
Success Academy’s Radical Educational Experiment
Inside Eva Moskowitz’s quest to combine rigid discipline with a progressive curriculum.
by Rebecca Mead

Annals of Law Enforcement
Conflicting Convictions

In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.
by Ken Armstrong

Annals of Agriculture
Strawberry Valley
How Driscoll’s turned produce into a beauty contest, and won.
by Dana Goodyear