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 throws Covid relief funding into chaos
Vaccine distribution off to slow start
Russian hack poses biggest espionage threat in decades
Trump: Now in the final act of King Lear
Good week/bad week
Only in America
Pardon power
The world at a glance…
Taylor-Joy’s isolation • Anya Taylor-Joy
The Farrow who wants to be ‘Allen’ • Moses Farrow
Bergen’s glamorous life • Candice Bergen
In the news
The Christmas of 1918
Snowden deserves no pardon
Buttigieg’s potential impact
Why DeSantis covers up Covid data
Viewpoint
I read it in the tabloids • It must be true…
Binge drinking our pandemic blues away
The word of the year is ‘togetherness’
United Kingdom: New Covid strain cancels Christmas
How they see us: Blaming Russia for everything
Contagious superstition will cost lives
U.S. risks losing us for good
Barr: Partisan lackey or principled conservative?
Biden aide’s F-bomb: What it reveals
Noted
Snow days: Why they may be gone for good
Trump: What he did accomplish
Wit & Wisdom
The year in review
End-of-year quiz
Pick of the week’s cartoons
The way we were in 2020
The best of the tabloids in 2020 • It must be true…
Privacy: Apple’s new advertising rules spook Facebook
What’s new in tech • Bytes
Innovation of the week
Some of the things they said were good for us…
From Covid-19 vaccines to tiny living robots • The big scientific breakthroughs of 2020
…and some of the things we were told to avoid
Quiet time: Lessons from an unprecedented shutdown
Critics’ choice: The year’s best novels…
…and the year’s best nonfiction
Critics’ choice: The top five albums of 2020
Singles of the year: The critics’ top three
Critics’ choice: The year’s top 10 movies
Critics’ choice: The year’s best TV
2020’s food heroes
Sourdough revisited: The home-cooking craze I just can’t quit
A new year, a new you • The best of…
The best homes of the year
Project Titan: Apple speeds up car design
Opioids: Walmart faces U.S. lawsuit
The bottom line
Stocks: Investors see rally continuing in 2021
What the experts say
Charity of the week
Antitrust: Lawsuits force Google to play defense
The best $200,000 I ever lost
This year’s big winners: billionaires
Among those who died in 2020…
Lost to Covid-19
Locked in, but still conscious
Feather food • The Week Contest