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

Prosecution makes its case against Chauvin

It wasn’t all bad

Minnesota police shooting brings new tensions, protests

Johnson & Johnson vaccine paused over clot fears

Transgender kids: The GOP’s fight to ban medical treatments

Good week/bad week

Only in America

Tragedies multiply

Violence explodes

Gorman’s poetic rise • Amanda Gorman

Why Kaku is anxious about aliens • Michio Kaku

Memed on the Suez Canal • Abdullah Abdul-Gawad

In the news

Changing election laws

Fox’s resident white supremacist

Russia, China pose grave threats

Why ‘loose’ cultures failed in the pandemic

Viewpoint

It must be true… I read it in the tabloids

Women need a proper seat at the table

The icy land that’s voted to go green

United Kingdom: A nation says farewell to Prince Philip

Israel: Striking at Iran’s nuclear program

Are the pharaohs feeling angry?

Moscow bachelors can’t be caught

The GOP: Why it just can’t quit Trump

‘Woke’ corporations: Why they’ve switched sides

Noted

Crime: What caused a spike in homicides?

Judicial commission: What is Biden’s goal?

Wit & Wisdom

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Kids’ tech: The emotional costs of always being online

What’s new in tech • Bytes

Innovation of the week

Covid survivors left with ‘brain disease’

First windpipe transplant

New variants can infect mice

Hope for an HIV vaccine

Bad for dinosaurs, good for rain forests

Girlhood • Book of the week

First Person Singular

A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey

Chosen by Morgan Jerkins • Best books…

In gold and other shiny objects • Also of interest…

Jenny Lawson • Author of the week

Salvator Mundi: Maybe it really is a Leonardo?

Fearless (Taylor’s Version) • Taylor Swift

Dancing With the Devil… The Art of Starting Over • Demi Lovato

Blindness

Voyagers

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Streaming tips

Stowaway • Show of the week

Chicken confit: Your ticket to a Parisian dinner party

Wine: Malbec’s rebound

Help wanted: Restaurants’ surprising new labor shortage

The 2021 Aston Martin DBX • What the critics say

Composting • The best of…

Tip of the week… • How to replace a phone battery

Eco-friendly homes

Uber: The riders are back, the drivers are not

Inflation: Gas costs lead price advance

The bottom line

Health care: The medical cost crisis will outlast Covid

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Amazon: Warehouse workers turn down union drive

Just another great year for CEOs

Wall Street’s circular firing squad

The naval officer who became patriarch of Britain’s royal family • Prince Philip, 1921–2021

The chart-topping rapper who battled demons in his lyrics and life • DMX, 1970–2021

The murders that go uncounted

Tyrant tips • The Week contest