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 new special counsel for Trump cases

It wasn’t all bad

Massacre at a gay club in Colorado Springs

Musk’s deepening chaos at Twitter

Congress: What to expect from a GOP House

Good week/bad week

Only in America

Still unsolved

No heat, no light

Barker’s brush with death • Travis Barker

A disability eased by magic mushrooms • Jim Harris

Lopez’s guarded romanticism • Jennifer Lopez

In the news

The shadow over the World Cup

A better way to reduce abortions

What caring about Covid now means

Chappelle’s hierarchy of oppression

Viewpoint

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

When the food isn’t politically palatable

Where bombs just keep raining down

United Kingdom: Hard times ahead as recession bites

Russia: The proof that it downed a civilian plane

Venezuelans deserve better than this

Okinawa suffers to protect Taiwan

Pelosi: A progressive pragmatist who knew how to lead

Noted

Population: Is 8 billion people too many?

Student debt: Biden’s plan in big trouble

Wit & Wisdom

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Autonomous cars: Death of a dream?

Innovation of the week

What’s new in tech • Bytes

Bivalent Covid booster raises immunity

Light pollution and diabetes

Did early cavemen cook?

Masking in schools does work

Friendship among the apes

Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon • Book of the week

Flight • Novel of the week

The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

Chosen by Charmaine Wilkerson • Best books…

Behind the music • Also of interest…

Rob Delaney • Author of the week

Alex Katz: Gathering • Exhibit of the week

Ticketmaster: Swift’s army takes on a music colossus

Bones and All

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

& Juliet

Streaming tips

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Lady Chatterley’s Lover • Show of the week

Char siu: Cantonese roast pork made easy • Recipe of the week

Dining out: The many pleasures of Burlington, Vt.

Spirits: Unique holiday gifts

Yellowstone under a blanket of snow • This week’s dream

Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa • Hotel of the week

Michoacán’s rose-colored capital • Getting the flavor of…

Homes in Queens, N.Y.

Disney: Iger returns to his throne

Sentenced: Holmes gets 11 years in Theranos fraud

The bottom line

Junk fees: Fighting the steady drip of surcharges

What the experts say

Charity of the week

FTX: Silicon Valley’s favorite whiz kid unravels

A big bet on lobbying pays off

You can’t shrink down to greatness

The speechwriter who shaped Bush’s message • Michael Gerson, 1964–2022

The art director who shook up Madison Avenue • George Lois, 1931–2022

The activist who invented the term ‘sex work ’ • Carol Leigh, 1951–2022

Lost on the Hill of Death

Lustful ghost • The Week Contest