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

Prigozhin’s aborted coup leaves Putin weakened

Supreme Court nixes radical election theory

It wasn’t all bad

Note to readers

Alito: Another member of the billionaires’ boys club

Good week/bad week

Only in America

Sweltering

Stop dumping cruise waste

Jackson’s activist youth • Samuel L. Jackson

Lumley’s experience of stripping on screen • Joanna Lumley

Why Lipko can laugh amid war • Serhii Lipko

In the news

Writers on strike

The value of partnering with Modi

Trump’s pardon paradox

Durham’s shocking ignorance

Viewpoint

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

Can this mini-Olympics be saved?

Kidnapping kids to play soccer

Ukraine: What Prigozhin’s uprising means for the war

How they see us: Biden fetes India’s repressive leader

Where gangs are the real authority

Stick some pork into the melting pot

A year without Roe: How America has changed

Noted

The Titan: Why the global fascination?

RFK Jr.: The Right’s favorite Democrat

Wit & Wisdom

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Moguls: Two tech titans bare teeth and flex abs

Innovation of the week

What’s new in tech • Bytes

The cancer drug shortage

Catastrophic ice melt

Chili and chicken help jet lag

A swiftly tilting planet

Giant snail invasion in Florida

Summer reading: Irresistible fiction for your beach bag

Chosen by Aisha Harris • Best books…

In Americans making history • Also of interest…

Ken Jennings • Author of the week

Van Gogh’s Cypresses • Exhibit of the week

Once Upon a One More Time

The Who’s Tommy

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

No Hard Feelings

Joy Ride

Streaming tips

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Human Footprint • Show of the week

Fish on the grill: Tips from the founder of Franklin Barbecue • Recipe of the week

Lima’s breakthrough: A new ‘World’s Best Restaurant’

Wine: Sparkling rosé

Soaking up the simple pleasures of Ischia • This week’s dream

Bulgari Hotel Tokyo • Hotel of the week

Another side of Maine • Getting the flavor of…

Homes in the Craftsman style

EVs: Lordstown insolvent after just 65 trucks

Retail: New rules deter reselling stolen merchandise

The bottom line

Dark patterns: Is it too hard to cancel Amazon Prime?

What the experts say

Charity of the week

The office: Companies plead for workers to come back

Taking drugs with Silicon Valley’s elite

A coming wave of mass litigation

The lyricist who penned Fiddler on the Roof • Sheldon Harnick, 1924–2023

The Iranian-born scientist who put rovers on Mars • Firouz Naderi, 1946–2023

The weight-loss star who went viral as ‘Mr. Buttermilk Biscuits’ • Larry Myers Jr., 1974–2023

The age of Ozempic

Snail movie • The Week Contest