The best American magazine writing 2017

Delusion is the thing with feathers / Mac McCelland

Worlds apart / Nikole Hannah-Jones

The revenge of Roger's Angels / Gabriel Sherman

The list / Sarah Stillman

The Improvisational oncologist / Siddhartha Mukherjee

Trump Days / George Saunders

President Trump, seriously and "Appetite for destruction" and the fury and failure of Donald Trump / Matt Taibbi

Democracies end when they are too democratic / Andrew Sullivan

The Obama Doctrine / Jeffrey Goldberg

Yellowstone: Wild heart of continent / David Quammen

My four months as a private prison guard / Shane Bauer

Bird in a cage and The ideology of isolation and Giantess / Rebecca Solnit

Ladies in waiting / Becca Rothfeld

The reckoning / Pamela Colloff

Listening for the country / Zandria F. Robinson.