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

Annals of Immigration
Neighborhood Watched
The Brooklyn neighborhood persevered after 9/11. Can it survive in the age of Trump?
by Jennifer Gonnerman

Annals of Diplomacy
Active Measures
What lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election—and what lies ahead?
by Evan Osnos, David Remnick, and Joshua Yaffa

Annals of Medicine
Tell Me Where It Hurts
We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.
by Atul Gawande