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

What next?

It wasn’t all bad

Bezos: Why he spiked his paper’s endorsement of Harris

Only in America

Good week for:

In other news

Why Coughlan resents being called ‘brave’

Ukraine’s first female frontline commander

Meyers’ mean side

In the news

What mass deportation would mean

The press can’t save the country

Conservatism after Trump is gone

Viewpoint

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

Honor our partisans, not Putin

Politicians can hide from their misdeeds

Georgia: Disputed election is a win for Russia

Israel: A restrained retaliation against Iran

Why tanker trucks keep exploding

The creeping ormalization of the Taliban

Noted

GOP: An avalanche of transphobic ads

Abortion: A winning issue for Harris?

Trump: Will rally racism cost him?

Musk: America’s oligarch-in-waiting

Wit & Wisdom

Poll Watch

Pick of the Week’s Cartoons

Counterfeits: When AI enters your emotional life

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

The meteor that turbocharged life on Earth

Plastic in dolphin breath

Carbon sinks on fire

One flu strain down

Gout isn’t a lifestyle disease

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World • Book of the week

Blood Test • Novel of the week

Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb

Best books…chosen by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Also of interest…in music makers