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

Biden visits Israel as rage grows over hospital blast

What next?

Jordan flails as lawmakers float McHenry for speaker

It wasn’t all bad

Israel at war: Is it violating international law in Gaza?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

Scherzinger’s unstoppable ambition

The historian who hunts stolen art

Parton’s unlikely style icon

In the news

Hamas’ reign of terror

The issue Biden refuses to address

The dire need for more ammo

Why Trump now despises Netanyahu

Viewpoint

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

How they see us: Why is America on the side of ‘genocide’?

Israel: Something fundamental has been broken

Britain’s NHS is nothing to aspire to

The toffs’ sport that poisons our land

Poland: Illiberal populists ousted after eight years

The Left: Why some activists are cheering a massacre

Noted

Haley: The GOP’s best Trump alternative?

Gaza war: A foreboding glimpse of the future

Wit & Wisdom

Poll watch

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Social media: A flood of grisly and often deceptive video

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

Designing a chicken that won’t get the flu

Will Pakistan become unlivable?

Long Covid, meet long colds

Exercise makes you lazy

How frogs say ‘not tonight’

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution • Book of the week

Family Meal • Novel of the week

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Best books…chosen by Elizabeth Hand

Also of interest… in new short fiction

Jon Fosse • Author of the week

Merrily We Roll Along

Gutenberg! The Musical!

New and notable podcasts

Killers of the Flower Moon

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Dicks: The Musical

Streaming tips • Journeys to outer space

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

The Gilded Age • Show of the week

Critics’ choice: A golden age of Filipino cuisine

Greek fava • Recipe of the week

Wine: The ‘smoke vintage’

This week’s dream: A singular dinner in the middle of a Norwegian fjord

Blind Tiger • Hotel of the week

Getting the flavor of…

The case for visiting ‘second cities’

This week: Homes in the desert

The bottom line

Lock-in: High rates keep homeowners stuck

Mergers: Microsoft closes Activision purchase

Bachelorette buses get VC funding

Bonds: High interest rates may be here to stay

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Reversals: The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried

Sorry, AI won’t tank the markets

How to sell your kids on assault rifles

The Three’s Company star and infomercial queen • Suzanne Somers 1946–2023

The actress who went from starlet to acclaim • Piper Laurie 1932–2023

The Nobel-winning poet of trauma and linguistic precision • Louise Glück 1943–2023

The era of the Neanderthal

The Week Contest