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The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Nov 3-9, 2014

A $9 billion whistle-blower. Exposing sex abuse among the Hasidim. And who runs Wikipedia? The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week.

The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare

By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talking

The Outcast

By Rachel Aviv, New Yorker

After a Hasidic man exposed child abuse in his tight-knit Brooklyn community, he found himself the target of a criminal investigation.

The 36 People Who Run Wikipedia

By Stephen Lurie, Matter

What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together.

Breaking Badr

By Susannah George, Foreign Policy

Meet Hadi al-Amiri, the unabashedly pro-Iranian leader of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite militia. His bloodthirsty fighters might be Baghdad's best hope of stopping the Islamic State.

From Portsmouth to Kobane: the British jihadis fighting for Isis

By Shiraz Maher, New Statesman

What motivates the young men who leave Britain to join the murderous fanatics of Isis in the Middle East? Shiraz Maher spoke to dozens of them inside Syria to find out.

A Birth Story

By Meaghan O’Connell, Longreads

Meaghan O’Connell had a perfect pregnancy and the perfect birth plan—and then she went into labor.

A Father’s Scars

By Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post

For Virginia’s Creigh Deeds, tragedy brings unending questions

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