The Best American Magazine Writing 2016

Introduction, by Roger Hodge, national editor, The Intercept
Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors
Fixing the System: An Interview with President Obama on Prison Reform, by Shane Smith, Vice, Finalist-Single-Topic Issue
What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This, by Paul Ford, Bloomberg Businessweek, Winner-Single-Topic Issue
The New American Slavery and "All You Americans Are Fired", by Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger, and Jeremy Singer-Vine, BuzzFeed News, Winner-Public Interest
"Pregnant? Scared? Need Options? Too Bad", by Meaghan Winter, Cosmopolitan, Finalist-Public Interest
"My Nurses Are Dead, and I Don't Know If I'm Already Infected", by Joshua Hammer, Matter, Winner-Reporting
Purgatory, by Luke Mogelson, New York Times Magazine, Finalist-Reporting
The Really Big One, by Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, Winner-Feature Writing
An Unbelievable Story of Rape, by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller, The Marshall Project and ProPublica, Finalist-Feature Writing
A Visit to the Sweat Lodge and Santa Muerte, Full of Grace and Stop Sending me Jonathan Franzen Novels, by Barrett Brown, The Intercept, Winner-Columns and Commentary
Down for the Count and The King Has Spoken and The Power of Sight, by Howard Bryant, ESPN the Magazine, Finalist-Columns and Commentary
The Friend, by Matthew Teague, Esquire, Winner-Essays and Criticism
How It Feels, by Jenny Zhang, Poetry, Finalist-Essays and Criticism
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