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 arraigned on 34 felony counts
Global outcry follows Russia’s arrest of U.S. journalist
A progressive victory in Wisconsin
Trump’s indictment: What it means for the GOP
Good week/bad week
Only in America
Spy balloon
Deadly crossing
A King Charles impersonator’s new popularity • Charles Haslett
Perez’s Hollywood humiliation • Rosie Perez
Sheeran’s rocky road • Ed Sheeran
In the news
The 15-minute city
Disney outsmarts DeSantis
How not to interview a wingnut
A quiet gun-law revolution
Viewpoint
I read it in the tabloids • It must be true…
The streets aren’t safe for a king
Why does Turkey run NATO?
United Kingdom: An unfunny laughing-gas problem
El Salvador: Gang crackdown fuels rising repression
The president has blood on his hands
Egypt doesn’t own the Nile
Baseball: Are faster games better?
National debt: Will the U.S. stumble into default?
Noted
Patriotism: No longer ‘very important’ to most
Obamacare: A legal assault on preventive care
Wit & Wisdom
Pick of the week’s cartoons
Metaverse: The club that no one wants to join
Innovation of the week
What’s new in tech • Bytes
The shape that does the impossible
It wasn’t an alien
Roaches’ new sex trick
UTIs can come from meat
Fish that care
A SPECIAL REPORT FROM THE EDITORS OF Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Investing: Keep calm in rough seas
Turbocharge your retirement savings
Lower your taxes
Buy a home
Check your insurance coverage
Plan your estate (and share the wealth)
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State • Book of the week
Wandering Souls • Novel of the week
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
Chosen by Don Winslow • Best books…
In matters of the mind • Also of interest…
Matthew Pratt Guterl • Author of the week
Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined • Exhibit of the week
The Record • Boygenius
In Pieces • Chlöe
A new classical music app
Air
A Thousand and One
Life of Pi
Streaming tips
The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Barry • Show of the week
Chinese chicken salad: One of America’s finest inventions • Recipe of the week
Miami: The year’s hottest food city?
Spirits: Japanese whisky
A father-son pilgrimage to rural Ireland • This week’s dream
Fairmont Doha • Hotel of the week
A book lover’s favorite weekend • Getting the flavor of…
Homes full of color
Oil: OPEC cuts production as demand falls
Litigation: J&J offers $8.9 billion talc settlement
The bottom line
Labor: Taking the cuffs off irate workers
What the experts say
Charity of the week
Elon Musk: Remaking Twitter in his own image
U.S. farms depend on global trade
Small banks drive small business
The record executive who signed Madonna • Seymour Stein, 1942–2023
The YA writer who took trans teens mainstream • Julie Anne Peters, 1952–2023
The restaurateur who brought the world the soup dumpling • Yang Bing-yi, 1927–2023
Echoes of gunfire
Anxiety scent • The Week Contest