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 fills out Cabinet with loyalists and billionaires

What next?

Russia gains ground as U.S. rushes aid to Ukraine

It wasn’t all bad

Senate Republicans: A check on Trump’s power?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

Why Hall regrets speaking out

King’s hunger for progress

Anderson’s rural idyll

In the news

The hillbilly VP

Forgetting that vaccines save lives

Voters resent the elites, not the rich

The GOP’s foolish attack on Medicaid

Viewpoint

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

Going easy on an alleged royal offender

For Americans, Britain is a cheap colony

Spain: A dirty cop reveals the threat of cartel corruption

Israel: The ICC’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu

How America’s madness will infect us

A mandate can be a tricky thing

Noted

Media: Morning Joe’s Mar-a-Lago summit

McMahon: Will she dismantle the DOE?

Trump’s Cabinet: An assault on MeToo

Trump: Can he claim a ‘mandate’?

Wit & Wisdom

Poll Watch

Pick of the Week’s Cartoons

AI: What if ‘bigger’ doesn’t mean ‘smarter’?

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

Mapping the body, one cell at a time

Did NASA kill Martian life?

Why Grandma loves the internet

How chatbots beat doctors

A saber-toothed kitten

We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine • Book of the week

Herscht 07769 • Novel of the week

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

Best books…chosen by Niall Williams

Also of interest…in power shifts

Emmanuel Carrère • Author of the week

Death Becomes Her

The $6 million banana • Art

GNX • Kendrick Lamar

Nobody Loves You More • Kim Deal

Small Changes • Michael Kiwanuka

Wicked

Queer

Now playing: This year’s early holiday films

Streaming tips • New stand-up specials

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

The Sticky • Show of the week

Gingerbread layer cake: As regal as its mascarpone crown • Recipe of the week

America’s best new bars: A varied top five for 2024

Wine: Costco’s treasures

This week’s dream: Tulum and its many surprises

Quercus • Hotel of the week

Getting the flavor of…

The new rules on airline refunds

This week: Homes in Montana

The bottom line

Treasury: Bessent choice reassures Wall Street

Culture wars: Walmart cuts DEI, pride programs

Turning a teen job into $8 billion

Dr. Oz: Expanding Medicare’s private option

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Tariff Man: Trump threatens a trade war

The U.S. is the world’s safe haven

Automakers fear an EV upheaval

The publisher who opened travel to the masses • Arthur Frommer 1929–2024

The teen who became a Resistance heroine • Madeleine Riffaud 1924–2024

The British guitarist who gave James Bond his musical theme • Vic Flick 1937–2024

History’s greatest puzzle

The Week Contest