Sid Holt is chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors and a former editor at Rolling Stone and Adweek magazines.Adam Moss was the editor in chief of New York magazine from 2004 to 2019. He was elected by ASME to the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in 2019.

Introduction, by Adam MossAcknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine EditorsA Betrayal, by Hannah Dreier, ProPublica, copublished with New York, Finalist-Public InterestAmerican Hustler, by Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, Finalist-ReportingA Kingdom from Dust, by Mark Arax, The California Sunday Magazine, Finalist- Feature WritingShallow Graves and An Interview with Ben Taub by Eric Sullivan, by Ben Taub, The New Yorker, Winner-ReportingThe Genocide the U.S. Didn't See Coming, by Nahal Toosi, Politico, Finalist-ReportingWe Made It. We Depend on It. We're Drowning in It. Plastic, by Laura Parker, National Geographic, Finalist- Public InterestThe First Porn President and I Believe Her and The Abandoned World of 1982, by Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, Finalist-Columns and CommentaryMisjudged, by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, Finalist-Essays and CriticismThe National Geographic Twins and the Falsehood of Our Post-Racial Future and The Profound Presence of Doria Ragland and The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Will Be Remembered as a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment, by Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, Winner-Columns and ComentaryThis Place Is Crazy, by John J. Lennon, Esquire, Finalist-Feature WritingGetting Out of Prison Meant Leaving Dear Friends Behind, by Robert Wright, The Marshall Project with Vice, Finalist-Columns and CommentaryGetting Out, by Reginald Dwayne Betts, New York Times Magazine, Winner-Essays and CriticismHow to Be an Artist, by Jerry Saltz, New York, Winner-Leisure InterestsThe Art of Dying Well, by Kasey Cordell and Lindsey B.Koehler, 5280, Winner-Personal ServiceTaming the Lionfish, by Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, Finalist-Feature WritingThe Breakup Museum, by Leslie Jamison, Virginia Quarterly Review, Finalist-Essays and CriticismSkinned, by Lesley Nneka Arimah, and A Conversation with McSweeney's Claire Boyle and Karolina Waclawiak, by The ASME Award for Fiction, McSweeney's, Winner-ASME Award for FictionPermissionsList of Contributors

This year's National Magazine Awards finalists and winners include outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power, and violence, both at home and abroad.