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

Shutdown odds rise amid GOP infighting

It wasn’t all bad

Five Americans freed in deal with Iran

In New York, Zelensky blasts U.N. inaction

Hunter Biden: Are his gun charges ‘political’?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

Popal’s dreams for Afghan soccer

Why Combs took toad venom

Penn’s admiration of Zelensky

In the news

A superpower’s slump

Why Paxton survived impeachment

Democrats must act on asylum

When women fear getting pregnant

Viewpoint

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

Film fight exposes rising intolerance

Are children now welcome nowhere?

United Kingdom: Rape accusations take down Brand

Chile: The U.S.-backed coup that brought dictatorship

Quota for women hasn’t done a thing

We don’t deserve this MAGA scorn

Noted

Romney: A complicated legacy

Abortion: Is ‘pro-life’ a losing brand?

Covid: Should you get the new shot?

Child poverty: Why it soared last year

Wit & Wisdom

Poll watch

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Litigation: Google defends its dominance

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

Signs of life on a distant planet

A popular, useless cold medicine

Sitting linked to dementia

Why our brains shrank

The beetle under the costume

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts • Book of the week

The Vaster Wilds • Novel of the week

Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Best books…chosen by Etaf Rum

Also of interest… in love and marriage

Bernie Taupin • Author of the week

Infinite Life

Death, Let Me Do My Show

Jann Wenner: Rock dinosaur

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We • Mitski

Black Rainbows • Corinne Bailey Rae

Dumb Money

The Inventor

Talk-show limbo: The new front in Hollywood’s wage war

Streaming tips • Tributes to Rome

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Flora and Son • Show of the week

Critics’ choice: Vive le French bistro

Creamy one-pot orzo with corn and bacon • Recipe of the week

Wine: Dry Germans

This week’s dream: Soaking up the stark beauty of Greenland

Under Canvas Lake Powell–Grand Staircase • Hotel of the week

A special eclipse over Albuquerque • Getting the flavor of…

How to take better travel photos

This week: Homes in New Hampshire

The bottom line

Markets: Instacart opens door to more IPOs

The Fed: Rates unchanged as central bank stays cautious

Havana’s answer to the Genius Bar

Climate costs: The home insurance squeeze

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Detroit: Auto workers’ strike puts Democrats in a bind

Requiem for the sharing economy

Missing: Amazon’s next big hit

The bodybuilder who was Mapplethorpe’s muse • Lisa Lyon 1953–2023

The Colombian artist who glorified the grotesque • Fernando Botero 1932–2023

The Republican senator who imposed federal control over D.C. • Lauch Faircloth 1928–2023

The weddings of the 1 percent

The Week Contest