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

Israeli hostages return home amid Gaza truce

It wasn’t all bad

Congress seeks deal linking Ukraine aid, immigration reform

Supreme Court poised to limit federal regulators’ powers

OpenAI: On the verge of a dangerous breakthrough?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

King’s battle with bingeing

College football’s graybeard kicker

Rimes’ sympathy for Spears

In the news

What space does to the body • Humans are preparing to venture deeper into space. Scientists aren’t sure if our bodies are up to the challenge.

A senile presidential candidate

Why take ‘official’ positions?

When kids are shaped by screens

Viewpoint

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

Far right sends Dublin up in flames

A regime that persecutes even the exiles

Netherlands: Anti-Muslim firebrand wins election

Israel: Elation and anguish as hostages come home

Taking a risk by denouncing Israel

We protest for Gaza, but not for ourselves

Noted

Democracy: A threat to the Voting Rights Act

Free speech: Are critics of Israel being silenced?

Gaza: What is Israel’s endgame?

Congress: Why so many members are quitting

Wit & Wisdom

Poll watch

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Instagram: A continuing danger to children and teens

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

How Covid keeps getting more infectious

Global warming’s scary milestone

New virus spreading in dogs

Don’t cut the cord too soon

The planet where it rains sand

How to Be: Life Lessons From the Early Greeks • Book of the week

The Future • Novel of the week

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

Best books…chosen by Patricia Cornwell • Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell’s 40 books have collectively sold more than 100 million copies. Her latest, Unnatural Death, is a Kay Scarpetta novel that finds the medical examiner in rural Virginia investigating the mauling death of two campers.

Also of interest…in bibliophilia

Safiya Sinclair • Author of the week

Fashioned by Sargent • Exhibit of the week

New Blue Sun • André 3000

Cat Power Sings Dylan • Cat Power

Rockstar • Dolly Parton

Maestro

Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé

New and notable podcasts

Streaming tips • Growing up Indigenous

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Leave the World Behind • Show of the week

Critics’ choice: Where wild and weird is also wonderful

Chocolate olive oil cake • Recipe of the week

Wine: The best under $20

This week’s dream: Exploring the cultural riches of Mexico’s ‘second city’

Le Grand Mazarin • Hotel of the week

Getting the flavor of…

Wait—flying is affordable again?

This week: Homes under $1 million

The bottom line

Finance: Apple seeks to replace Goldman

Fashion: Shein seeks to go public amid labor questions

‘Life at Sea’ turns into an epic shipwreck

Spending: Black Friday gives hints of deflation

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Binance: Can the biggest crypto exchange reform itself?

Advertising returns with a vengeance

At the USPS the real boss is Amazon

The producer who created fantastical kids’ TV • Marty Krofft...