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

U.S. lifts oil sanctions on Iran amid chaotic talks

What next?

Leftists surge in New York’s congressional primaries

It wasn’t all bad

Going green: Trump’s botched Reflecting Pool makeover

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

Palmer’s family sacrifices

French Gates’ encounter with ‘evil’

Why Kimmel stays loyal

In the news

America’s contentious birthday

Most U.S. schools are not failing

Taking food away from the hungriest

What voter ‘fraud’ really means

Viewpoint

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

Our beloved Hockey Night is dead

Too divided to be governable

Iran deal: Gulf states are worse off

How they see us: The U.S. can snatch away AI

Our kids should play in the street

Teen ban on social media hits adults

Noted

U.S.-Israel: Iran deal upsets the alliance

Vance: A convenient scapegoat for Trump?

Pride Night: When baseball players object

Newsom: Targeted by Trump’s DOJ?

Wit & Wisdom

Poll Watch

Pick of the Week’s Cartoons

Streaming: Will Fox’s Roku deal let it cut the cord?

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

Mapping the fungi beneath our feet

A win against hantavirus

Lupus relief with T-cells

To the left, to the left

A Venus flytrap’s snappy secret

Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith • Book of the week

Contrapposto • Novel of the week

The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity From the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris

Best books…chosen by Deborah Lutz

Also of interest…in space stories

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor • Author of the week

Machine Dreams: Rainforest • Exhibit of the week

The Rolling Stones • Foreign Tongues

Video games: A Bond ready for the multiplex?

Maddie’s Secret

Rose of Nevada

Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise • New and notable podcasts

OnlyFantasy

Streaming tips • The sci-fi side of Steven Spielberg

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Elle • Show of the week

Veracruz-style snapper: One pan, many layers of flavor

Tavern crawl: Where to drink like an American rebel

Taste test: Chocolate ice cream

This week’s dream: 10 days in Mongolia

The Huntington Hotel • Hotel of the week

Getting the flavor of…

How to pick a national park campsite

This week: Homes on lakes

The bottom line

Energy: Trump speeds nuclear power build-out

Tesla: Self-driving car crashes into home

The little monsters worth millions

Teen employment: What happened to summer jobs?

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Anthropic: Trump’s AI punching bag

What the Iran war taught us about oil

RTO has a lot to do with E-G-O

The Fed chair who fueled the boom times • Alan Greenspan 1926–2026

The seeker who introduced Westerners to Buddhism • Robert Thurman1941–2026

Grate expectations

The Week Contest