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 federal election-fraud trial set for March

It wasn’t all bad

Note to readers

Hurricane Idalia batters the Southeast

A racist shooting spree in Jacksonville

Prigozhin: How his killing will affect Putin’s grip on power

Good week/bad week

Only in America

School fight

Soccer’s Kissgate scandal

Why Cooper played the villain • Alice Cooper

Harvard’s extraterrestrial outsider • Avi Loeb

Keough’s weighty inheritance • Riley Keough

In the news

Capturing carbon

Christians who love to hate

Legal or not, Hunter’s acts were wrong

Near misses at the airports

Viewpoint

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

Elgin Marbles are not safe in Britain

A country ruled by grannies

Russia: With Prigozhin dead, can Putin control Wagner?

Australia: Was mushroom poisoning really an accident?

War is no fix for Niger coup

Factories, not cars, clog the air

GOP debate: An elephant in the room

Noted

Musk: His growing power over government

Travel: Why tourists are behaving badly

Wit & Wisdom

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Back-to-school: The chatbot invasion

Innovation of the week

What’s new in tech • Bytes

Covid has long-term effects on most

Y chromosome sequenced

Regaining a voice through tech

Babies need faces, not screens

A fish that sees with its skin

Gambler: Secrets From a Life at Risk • Book of the week

Bridge • Novel of the week

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life

Chosen by Paul Murray • Best books…

In school dramas • Also of interest…

Elizabeth Rush • Author of the week

Beyond Granite: Pulling Together • Exhibit of the week

Zach Bryan • Zach Bryan

Jaguar II • Victoria Monét

Haunted Mountain • Buck Meek

Bottoms

Golda

The Writer

Streaming tips

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

The Changeling • Show of the week

Chicken and gin: Surprising sophistication from simple parts • Recipe of the week

Pizza farms: A growing Midwestern tradition

Wine: Mount Etna finds

The wild beauty of Olympic National Park • This week’s dream

Life House, Berkshires • Hotel of the week

Storybook Carmel-by-the-Sea • Getting the flavor of…

Homes in converted buildings

Pharma: Medicare drug price negotiations

Nvidia: AI pacesetter beats profit estimates

The bottom line

Auto inflation: The end of the economy car

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Locked down: Stores struggle to deter rising thefts

Silicon Valley plans for its perfect city

Democracy, fast-casual edition

The host who invited us to ‘Come on down!’ • Bob Barker 1923–2023

The Dallas creator who livened up evening TV • David Jacobs 1939–2023

The conservative everyman known as ‘Joe the Plumber’ • Samuel Wurzelbacher 1973–2023

‘I’m just here for the violence’

Despicable suitors • The Week Contest