The Week Magazine

The Week makes sense of the news by curating the best of the U.S. and international media into a succinct, lively digest.

Editor’s letter

Trump’s agenda-defining bill heads to Senate

It wasn’t all bad

Frustrated Trump warns ‘crazy’ Putin

Harvard faces expanded White House war

Antisemitism: What a young couple’s murder tells us

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a Glance

The World at a Glance

How Lin learned to embrace his pain

Memories of a Hitler Youth

Hargitay’s two fathers

In the news

Flying into danger

An anti-vax mandate for Covid

Antimissile defense is a scam

A dire need for political moderates

Viewpoint

It must be true… • I read it in the tabloids

This unfair U.S. tax will backfire

Locked up for even mild dissent

Israel: Isolated, defensive, and losing Western support

How they see us: Has Trump finally seen through Putin?

No longer a pretense of democracy

The Tories are now just Reform lite

Noted

Pocket change: The demise of the penny

Time’s up: The Democratic gerontocracy

George Floyd: Did Black Lives Matter fail?

National debt: Why Congress no longer cares

Wit & Wisdom

Poll Watch

Pick of the Week’s Cartoons

Mystery device: OpenAI’s big gamble

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

It may be too late to save the ice sheets

Seabirds packed with plastic

A moment of Zen

Parkinson’s link to golf courses

Monkey kidnappers

Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference • Book of the week

Spent • Novel of the week

Is a River Alive?

Best books…chosen by Bryan Burrough

Also of interest…in cinema tales

Yiyun Li • Author of the week

Jeffrey Gibson: The Space in Which to Place Me • Exhibit of the week

Better Dreaming • Tune-Yards

Fancy That • PinkPantheress

Springsteen vs. Trump

The Phoenician Scheme

Bring Her Back

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

Streaming tips • What to watch after The Last of Us

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Good Night, and Good Luck • Show of the week

Homestyle chicken nuggets: A dinner treat to be proud of • Recipe of the week

Tomales Bay: Oyster heaven in Northern California

Wine: A Trump taste test

This week’s dream: Central India’s city of music

Hotel del Coronado • Hotel of the week

Getting the flavor of…

Should you lock your luggage?

This week: Homes by the sea

The bottom line

Trade: iPhone threatened with new tariffs

No trial: Boeing avoids prosecution in 737 Max case

The big business of grad photos

Mortgages: The future of Fannie and Freddie

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Energy: Reversing course on electric cars

Silicon Valley is selling a new religion

A travel boom bypasses the middle class

The everyman actor who was Norm on Cheers • George Wendt 1948–2025

The feminist who called rape a crime of power • Susan Brownmiller 1935–2025

The duck hunter who created a reality show dynasty • Phil Robertson 1946–2025

Virtual currency, real-world crimes

The Week Contest