How to Spot a Military Impostor
by Rachel Monroe

The detectives who investigate fake stories of military service use many tools, including shame.

The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
by Alec MacGillis

The desire to protect children may put their long-term well-being at stake.

Annals of Medicine
How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor
An infectious-disease expert’s long crusade against some of humanity’s most virulent threats.
by Michael Specter

Annals of Education

Prep for Prep and the Fault Lines in New York’s Schools
Do programs that help low-income students of color get into selective private schools obscure the system’s deeper inequalities?

by Vinson Cunningham

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