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

Haley vows to stay in GOP race despite fresh losses

It wasn’t all bad

Cease-fire talks stumble as Rafah assault looms

Social media laws face Supreme Court scrutiny

Ukraine: After two years of war, is victory possible for Kyiv?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

The YouTuber who gets 30 billion views

What Wenders learned from Herzog

Stone’s expensive life in the spotlight

In the news

A ‘swatting’ epidemic

A showcase of MAGA horribles

Voters don’t actually care about age

Twisting kids’ beauty standards

Viewpoint

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

Why we can’t afford to get our teeth fixed

Legal weed, but only for non-drivers

France: No birthright citizenship for African province

How they see us: Ignoring Mexican president’s drug ties

Once ruthless represser, now elder statesman

A university degree that you can’t use

IVF ruling: Are frozen embryos children?

Noted

Measles: Why cases are spiking in Florida

Propaganda: Did Russia ensnare the GOP?

Wit & Wisdom

Poll watch

Pick of the week’s cartoons

AI flubs: Google’s Gemini fails its history test

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

NASA returns to moon via private lander

Exercise helps women more

Vegetarians snore less

Smoking harms immunity

The gnat trapped in the flower

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story • Book of the week

Leaving • Novel of the week

Cocktails With George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best books…chosen by Cristina Henríquez

Also of interest…in dystopian debut novels

Rhaina Cohen • Author of the week

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism • Exhibit of the week

The Past Is Still Alive • Hurray for the Riff Raff

Loss of Life • MGMT

Beyoncé’s country breakthrough

Dune: Part Two

Ordinary Angels

Drive-Away Dolls

Streaming tips • Superb international movies

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Damsel • Show of the week

Critics’ choice: Provocative new tasting menus

Parmesan-garlic crisped bread with spicy greens • Recipe of the week

Taste test: Marinaras

The 2024 Mercedes-Benz CLE: What the critics say

The best of…reusable grocery bags

How to clean a lampshade • Tip of the week…

For an alternative to Goodreads • Best apps…

This week: Homes with greenhouses

The bottom line

Reversals: Apple cancels auto plans

Antitrust: U.S. sues to stop supermarket merger

Kellogg’s chief: Let them eat flakes

Scams: A finance columnist gets conned out of $50,000

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Gold rush: How high can Nvidia fly?

Spam sites grow where news dies

A unicorn extinction event

The activist who blunted the stigma of AIDS • Hydeia Broadbent 1984–2024

The Nobel scientist who feuded with his rivals • Roger Guillemin 1924–2024

The socialite who lived a public life of glamour and heartbreak • Ira von Fürstenberg 1940–2024

‘This place breaks your heart every day’

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