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A Former Miss America Winner on Ending the Swimsuit Competition

By Kira Kazantsev

Miss America Is Ending Its Swimsuit Competition

By Jennifer Calfas

‘A Pervasive Culture of Abuse.’ Miss America Winners Speak Out After CEO’s Inappropriate Emails Are Revealed

By Katie Reilly

Who Is Sam Haskell? Miss America CEO Resigns Over Emails Criticizing Contestants

By Billy Perrigo
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Miss Texas Criticized President Trump's Response to Charlottesville

On Sunday night, Miss North Dakota Cara Mund took the crown as 2018’s Miss America pageant queen. But one of the runners-up, Miss Texas Margana Wood, may have stolen the show.During a question and answer...

By Raisa Bruner

How the 'John Oliver Effect' Is Having a Real-Life Impact

His show has crashed websites, boosted donations and inspired legislation

By Victor Luckerson

Bess Myerson's Original Victory

The 1945 Miss America winner has died at 90. She was one of the few in the competition's history to outlast the fame given by her crown

By Lily Rothman

Former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley Dies at 75

Mobley was crowned Miss America in 1959

By NBC News

John Oliver Gave a Big Boost to Women's Scholarship Funds

The Society of Women's Engineers calls the bump in funding the "John Oliver bounce"

By Maya Rhodan

Miss America Responds to Hazing Allegations

Said she didn't haze, except if you count what's "under the broad definition of hazing"

By Charlotte Alter

Everyone Needs to Lay Off the Miss America Contestants

If we're criticizing the pageant for degrading women, why should we ourselves degrade those individual women in our commentary?

By Steve Friess

Miss America Show Misspells Jane Austen

But wait, maybe they do mean Austin with an 'i'

By Olivia B. Waxman

Funniest Faces of Past Miss America Winners

Love it or hate it, the Miss America Competition never fails to entertain

By TIME Photo

See Photos of Every Miss America Since 1921

From fur-lined capes to sequined dresses to bikinis, see how Miss America's look has changed over 88 years

By TIME Staff

Miss America Defends Suspended High School Senior

Nina Davuluri said she was flattered when 18-year-old Pennsylvania student Patrick Farves asked her out to the prom during a school assembly. She hopes Farves' high school will change its mind about his three-day suspension

By Nolan Feeney

Miss America, 1945: Photos From the Old-School Jersey Shore

At a 1945 pageant in Atlantic City, Bronx-born Bess Myerson — who died in December 2014 at the age of 90 — made history as the first Jewish Miss America

By Ben Cosgrove

Beauty Speaks: Portraits of 31 Former Miss USA Pageant Queens

Last night, Miss California's Alyssa Campanella won the 2011 Miss USA title at the pageant's 60th anniversary. To capture the event, TIME asked Susan Anderson to create exclusive portraits of 31 of the contest's past winners.

By Yumi Goto
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