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 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