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 eyes regime change in Venezuela

What next?

Push for Ukraine ceasefire collapses

Obamacare prices set to rise as shutdown drags on

Young Republicans: Does the GOP have a Nazi problem?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

Why Sheen got clean

Richie’s two worlds

Aniston’s IVF struggles

In the news

From tech billionaire to media mogul

Muzzling the Pentagon’s watchdogs

Trump wasn’t a victim of ‘lawfare’

Tributes worthy of emperors

Viewpoint

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

Forcing kids to perform patriotism

Not president but always our leader

Israel: How the Gaza war has changed us

United Kingdom: Epstein fallout topples a prince

If we must have a draft, make it fair

A racist can’t serve as top diplomat

Noted

Chicago: Scenes from a city under siege

Bolton indictment: Retribution or justice?

No Kings rally: What did it achieve?

Voting Rights Act: SCOTUS’s pivotal decision

Wit & Wisdom

Poll watch

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Tracking ICE: Tech giants yield to government demands

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

How to avoid eating microplastics

Superbugs on the rise

The ‘streak’ in the universe

Social media makes kids dumber

Green turtles are back

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History • Book of the week

Heart the Lover • Novel of the week

Joyride: A Memoir

Best books… chosen by Beth Macy

Also of interest…in Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s fiction

Chris Kraus • Author of the week

Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties • Exhibit of the week

New and notable podcasts

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Frankenstein

Blue Moon

Streaming tips • Remembering Diane Keaton

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Hedda • Show of the week

Critics’ choice: Watering holes for gourmands

Recipe of the week

Wine: Chianti Classico

Subaru’s Crosstrek Hybrid: What the critics say

The best of…Halloween decor

Foods that shouldn’t live in the pantry • Tip of the week…

For online alarm clocks • Best apps…

This week: Homes for hikers

The bottom line

Meltdowns: A storm in Amazon’s cloud

Hollywood: Warner Bros. looks for a buyer

The college life, on a business-class ticket

Economics Nobel: The innovation race

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Corporate cockroaches: A sign of festering trouble

The billionaire who thought he bought S.F.

If sex sells, OpenAI’s store is now open

The rocker who shot fireworks from his guitar • Ace Frehley 1951–2025

The reclusive visionary who transformed R&B • D’Angelo 1974–2025

The NPR ‘founding mother’ who did 50,000 interviews • Susan Stamberg 1938–2025

The Pushkin heist

The Week Contest