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

Courts deal Trump a setback on tariffs

It wasn’t all bad

Ukraine’s shock drone blitz rewrites rules of war

Colorado attack adds to antisemitic wave

Musk: What did he achieve in Washington?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

How Bates got even

Jeopardy’s ‘stay-at-home son’

LuPone’s breakup with Broadway

In the news

Trump’s extremist ‘brain’

Would GOP admit Trump is senile?

RFK Jr.’s surrender to bird flu

Extremism has gone mainstream

Viewpoint

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

Poland: A Trumpish leader in a pivotal NATO country

Border control as a leftist cause

Jailed for a deleted tweet

A culture of seduction and scams

America’s loss will be our gain

Canada: A reminder that we’re still a monarchy

Noted

Democrats: Solving the ‘man problem’

Deportations: A crackdown on legal migrants

Pardons: ‘No MAGA left behind’

AI: Will it soon take your job?

Wit & Wisdom

Poll watch

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Learning loss: AI cheating upends education

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

The pulsing star that spews X-rays

Rainforests up in smoke

Can we refreeze the Arctic?

Gene therapy for brains

Neanderthals gave us bedbugs

Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company • Book of the week

Sleep • Novel of the week

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

Best books…chosen by Andrea Long Chu

Also of interest…in enduring legacies

Jeanine Cummins • Author of the week

Sargent and Paris • Exhibit of the week

Miley Cyrus • Something Beautiful

Garbage • Let All That We Imagine Be the Light

Keith Jarrett • New Vienna

New and notable podcasts

John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only! • Baltimore Center Stage

Pavements

Streaming tips • Unconventional recent horror

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Echo Valley • Show of the week

Critics’ choice: Restaurants that write their own rules

Salatet malfouf (Lebanese coleslaw) • Recipe of the week

Spirits: Cask-strength whiskey

Cadillac Celestiq: What the critics say

The best of…summer pest control

How to remove heat stains from wood • Tip of the week…

For sharing passwords safely • Best apps…

This week: Homes for maximalists

The bottom line

AI: Nvidia takes flight again

Banking: Dimon nixes retirement rumors

The strange garden of virtual mangoes

The TACO trade: Trump bluffs, investors call

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Adversaries: New fronts in the China trade war

A tax that cash smugglers will love

L.A.’s unions sabotage the Olympics

The actress who made Hot Lips human • Loretta Swit 1937–2025

The Democrat who charmed Republicans • Charles Rangel 1930–2025

The French doctor who invented the abortion pill • Étienne-Émile Baulieu 1926–2025

How melatonin took over kids’ bedtime

The Week Contest