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

Trump acquitted as seven Republicans break ranks

Biden pledges vaccines for all by August

It wasn’t all bad

The GOP: Is there life after Trumpism?

Good week/bad week

Only in America

Deadly polar vortex

Joke trial

Graham’s outsize ambitions • Ashley Graham

Bon Jovi’s beef with Trump • Jon Bon Jovi

Where Duvall went when she quit • Shelley Duvall

In the news

The boom in ‘green’ energy

Carlson has lost his marbles

The new Hollywood blacklist

The tyranny of a rabid minority

Viewpoint

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

Learning to demand integrity

Can our meritocracy be revived?

Poland: Slowly strangling the free press

Haiti: Dueling presidents and a democratic crisis

When Covid escapes from quarantine

A brilliant athlete in despair

The border: Biden’s immigration dilemma

New York Times: Now run by a ‘woke mob’?

Noted

California: A failed liberal experiment?

Lincoln Project: A dark cloud of scandal

Wit & Wisdom

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Microchips: A worldwide crunch starts to bite

What’s new in tech • Bytes

Innovation of the week

Missing: One flu season

Two masks much better than one

More warming, more pollen

Black coffee for the heart

The world’s teensiest reptile?

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race • Book of the week

We Run the Tides • Novel of the week

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Chosen by Elizabeth Kolbert • Best books…

In excavations of the past • Also of interest…

Vanessa Springora • Author of the week

All the Devils Are Here

Flowers for Vases/Descansos • Hayley Williams

Ignorance • The Weather Station

I Told You So • Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio

Minari

Sia’s autism movie: The skunk at the Golden Globes party

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Streaming tips • About the artist…

The United States vs. Billie Holiday • Show of the week

Bang bang chicken: An everyday take on a Sichuan classic

Wine: Pink prosecco

Project Takeout: Order a burrito, save a restaurant

The 2021 Genesis GV80 • What the critics say

Winter adventure • The best of…

Tip of the week… • How to get through a power outage

Homes with make-believe features

Citigroup: Plenty of problems for new CEO to fix

Newspapers: Hedge fund to buy Tribune

The bottom line

Inflation: How much stimulus is too much?

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Bitcoin: Bubble or breakthrough?

The fall of the house of McKinsey

The bots are winning the shopping war

The ‘smut peddler’ who relished free-speech fights • Larry Flynt, 1942–2021

The virtuoso pianist who pioneered jazz fusion • Chick Corea, 1941–2021

The soul singer who was the linchpin of the Supremes • Mary Wilson, 1944–2021

What the Know Nothings didn’t know

Gorilla case • The Week contest