The Washington monthly's monthly journalism award: David Kelly and Gary Cohn.

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The Los Angeles Times "The Enclave" May 12 & 13, 2006

While fears over same-sex marriage have caused lawmakers in Washington to debate amending the Constitution to limit marriage to one man and one woman, few lawmakers have expressed any apparent desire to crack down on polygamy. As Federal Marriage Amendment sponsor Orrin Hatch noted in 2003, "All I can say is, I know people in Hildale who are polygamists who are very fine people."

In a series of articles in May 2006, Los Angeles Times reporters David Kelly and Gary Cohn take a hard look at whether polygamous communities are really so fine after all, concentrating on a 10,000-strong community on...