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

The cleanup of Baltimore’s bridge disaster

It wasn’t all bad

Trump gag tightens as he attacks judiciary

Court allows six-week abortion ban in Florida

RFK Jr.: Who will his ‘spoiler’ campaign hurt most?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

Brunson’s comic rebellion

Aykroyd’s unconventional career path

How Hathaway beat her critics

In the news

Island of instability

Is America a dystopian hellhole?

Ukraine is not losing the war

GOP voters favor taxes and spending

Viewpoint

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

The high price of a shorter workweek

Punishing men who ‘cyberflash’

Norway: Trying to tame a wild teenage tradition

Russia: Lashing out and cracking down

Jail or exile? Bolsonaro must choose

Tragedy stalks the Outback

Noted

Gershkovich: One year as Putin’s hostage

Trump: Hawking Bibles for profit

AI: The floodgates are open

Polls: A comeback for Biden?

Wit & Wisdom

Poll watch

Pick of the week’s cartoons

SBF: A 25-year sentence for an epic fraud

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

Are we in the ‘age of humans’? Not yet

The man who sees demons

A warning sign for stroke

Why teenagers stink

A Dune-like sandworm

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash From 1600 to the Present • Book of the week

The Morningside • Novel of the week

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Best books…chosen by Rowan Beaird

Also of interest…in voices from the margins

Hanif Abdurraqib • Author of the week

Cowboy Carter: Beyoncé reinvents herself again

The Who’s Tommy

Teeth

Monkey Man

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World

Video games: The new feel of combat in two hit sequels

Streaming tips • Animated heroes, old and new

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

The Sympathizer • Show of the week

Sheet-pan hamburgers: A healthy way to extend burger night • Recipe of the week

The best of Winter Park: A world away from Disney

Wine: Three sauvignon blancs

This week’s dream: The awe-inspiring emptiness of Mongolia

The Lana • Hotel of the week

Getting the flavor of…

This week: Homes with great rec rooms

The bottom line

Disassembled: GE splits into three pieces

Boardrooms: Disney defeats Peltz challenge

A price squeeze from a passport cartel

Social Security: Should the U.S. raise the retirement age?

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Truth Social: Trump’s paper fortune

Boeing trips over the bottom line

The mixed blessing of going viral

The senator who bucked his party • Joe Lieberman 1942–2024

The sculptor who made minimalism monumental • Richard Serra 1938–2024

The psychologist who transformed economics • Daniel Kahneman 1934–2024

The babysitter heads into retirement

The Week Contest