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

Decision time in Trump’s hush money trial

It wasn’t all bad

Outcry after Israeli strike kills refugees in Rafah

Alito rejects calls for recusal in flag dispute

Johansson vs. Altman: A defining moment for AI?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

The self-doubt of Seinfeld’s Kramer

Questlove’s childhood on tour

Turner finds girl power at home

In the news

Latinos’ rightward shift

The GOP’s ‘unified reich’ generation

A ‘plot’ that’s in the open

Why a gun can get you killed

Viewpoint

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

The populists want us to leave the EU

Blame Russia for dwindling tourism

United Kingdom: Bleak outlook for Tories after 14 years

Myanmar: A motley rebel alliance takes on the junta

The runners forced to race in sandals

Proudly open borders, too little planning

Noted

Bird flu: Failing to stop the next pandemic?

Supreme Court: Diluting the Black vote

Trump: Biden tried to assassinate me

Haley: A half-hearted Trump endorsement

Wit &Wisdom

Poll watch

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Media: Will publishers regret their AI deals?

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

Extraordinarily detailed images from Euclid

Ozempic’s scary side effect

Cancer prevention breakthrough

Weed that’s too strong for seniors

Cockroach evolved in the kitchen

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face With the Idea of an Afterlife • Book of the week

The Second Coming • Novel of the week

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History

Best books…chosen by R.O. Kwon

Also of interest…in summer chillers

Jenny Erpenbeck • Author of the week

LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity • Exhibit of the week

The Lonely Few

Problems Between Sisters

Ezra

Robot Dreams

Hades II

Animal Well

Streaming tips • Tales from weird America

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Hit Man • Show of the week

Dusted chicken skewers: Bite-size fun for the season’s cookouts • Recipe of the week

Ashland, Ore.: Where dinner and theater meet

Lambrusco: Summer’s red

This week’s dream: Driving the Alaska Highway

The Weston • Hotel of the week

Getting the flavor of…

This week: Houses in Connecticut coastal towns

The bottom line

Music: U.S. files suit against Live Nation

AI wars: Musk raises $6 billion for xAI startup

Big Fruit bets big on a $400 pineapple

Real estate: A plan to unlock home equity

What the experts say

Charity of the week

NCAA: The end of the amateur sports charade

‘Nonprofit’ doesn’t mean ‘doing good’

A riptide of economic ignorance

The damaged author who wrote The Alienist • Caleb Carr 1955–2024

The Super Size Me director who fell from grace • Morgan Spurlock 1970–2024

The songwriter who made the medicine go down • Richard M. Sherman (1928–2024)

The 269-269 scenario

The Week Contest