The rise and fall and rise again of a crooked televangelist.

Inside a megachurch started by Procter & Gamble brand managers.

A profile of book editor Nan Talese.

Colombia’s FARC guerrillas face a new battle: re-joining society.

A profile of 24-year-old John John Florence.

A tuberculosis crisis in the rural South.

A profile of the writer.

How a daredevil helicopter pilot helped birth modern news.

How a dialect coach does her job.

When you’re an American in a country that treats you as if you were not.

The story of Tania Joya, the ex-wife of a jihadist from Texas.

How a perfect vision of mother hood hurts moms.

The story of a national obsession.

The story of a dream come true.

It’s a made-up label.

A trip to the International Tolstoy Conference to investigate an unsolved murder.

How the administration’s loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance, one civil servant at a time.

What if your son’s school thinks he might be a potential school shooter?

A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom.

A nation of suit-wearing salarymen educates its first generation of stay-at-home dads.

How a cabal of authors profited by gaming Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited algorithm.

The story of pianist Bill Evans and his lifelong obsession with a single song.

For the past 16 months, he had worked as a mole, posing as a militant jihadist in the Islamic State while passing critical information to a secret branch of Iraq’s national intelligence agency. His record was stunning: He had foiled 30 planned vehicle-bomb attacks and 18 suicide bombers, according to Abu Ali al-Basri, the agency’s director. Captain Sudani also gave the agency a direct line to some of the Islamic State’s senior commanders in Mosul.

Should art be a battleground for social justice?

Sissel Tolaas is a star in the world of smells. Her methods are not always subtle.