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Even before the results were in, the mood

around Myanmar’s November 2015

election was euphoric; for the first time

in their lives, people cast a consequential

vote against the military.

62

What Happened

to Aung

San Suu Kyi?

BY BEN RHODES

She was a human-rights icon.

Now she serves a government that

has been accused of genocide.

An inquiry into her fall from grace.

42 The Lunch Ladies

of New Canaan

BY SARAH SCHWEITZER

Secrets and lies in the

school cafeteria

51 Life With Lyme

BY MEGHAN O’ROURKE

After years of being ill, I found

myself with one of medicine’s

most bitterly contested

diagnoses. But new insights

are at last accumulating.

COVER STORY

74 This Land

Was Our Land

BY VANN R. NEWKIRK II

How nearly 1 million black farmers

were robbed of their livelihood

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