Longreads

A table at Zuccotti Park where free cigarettes were given out, taken three days before the OWS eviction. The inscription reads “Falling is still flying Have Hope Mon Ami.” Photo: Quinn…

An extended conversation with the legendary linguist Graham Gordon Ramsay If one were to rank a list of civilization's greatest and most elusive intellectual challenges, the problem of "decoding"…

Protesters carrying an Anonymous UK banner outside St Paul's Cathedral in London, in October 2011. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Spalding railway station in Lincolnshire is not a big place. It takes me…

Each year, I keep a running list of the most exceptional nonfiction that I encounter while publishing my twice-weekly newsletter The Best of Journalism. Along with my curating work for Byliner, this…

Of the many and conflicting stories about how Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three international editions (with more to come), 1.2 billion monthly page views and 54…

Behind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging bedrolls on the floor. The workers on the Salvation Army nightshift, who watch over these lone foreign teenagers in a…

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These must reads are my personal picks for the best nonfiction of 2010 Awards season in journalism is almost over: David Brooks has long since handed out the Sidneys, the…

Martin Woods was set apart by his modus operandi. His speciality, he explains, was his application of a "know your client", or KYC, policing strategy to identifying dirty money. "KYC is a fundamental approach to anti-money laundering, going after tax evasion or counter-terrorist financing. Who are your clients? Is the documentation right? Good, responsible banking involved always knowing your customer and it still does." When he looked at Wachovia, the first thing Woods noticed was a deficiency in KYC information.