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 makes mass layoffs across government

What’s next?

Spurning Zelensky, Trump reaches out to Putin

It wasn’t all bad

Justice Department: Condoning corruption under Trump?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a Glance

The World at a Glance

Goggins’ hardscrabble roots

How Becker hit bottom

Brown’s animal rescue

In the news

PEPFAR’s uncertain future

Trump is a faux populist

Making corruption great again

So much for saving ‘free speech’

Viewpoint

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

A new home for rabid antisemitism

A nation’s failure to launch

Congo: Rebel rampage renews threat of broader war

How they see us: America breaks up with Europe

Prison for spontaneous smooch?

Far right sabotaged its chance

Noted

Bird flu: The viral threat pushing up egg prices

GOP: Is Medicaid on the chopping block?

McConnell: Standing up to Trump—too late

The presidency: Is Trump above the law?

Wit & Wisdom

Poll Watch

Pick of the Week’s Cartoons

Musk vs. Altman: The fight over OpenAI

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

High-energy ‘ghost particle’ makes a splash

Another scorching January

The best way to boil an egg

Can cats bring home bird flu?

A feathered light show

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

Theory & Practice

The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell—and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose

Best books…chosen by Jason Isaacs

Also of interest…in wilderness tales

Neko Case • Author of the week

The Antiquities

Redwood

Drake and PartyNextDoor

Sharon Van Etten

Cymande

Captain America: Brave New World

The Monkey

Becoming Led Zeppelin

Streaming tips • Best Picture nominees

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

The 2025 Academy Awards • Show of the week

Smoked salmon pasta: Your new weeknight special • Recipe of the week

Dining out: Houston’s Viet-Cajun bug bonanza

Spirits: Chocolate indulgences

This week’s dream: Montevideo’s endless promenade

Forth Hotel • Hotel of the week

Getting the flavor of…

The hunt for better ski forecasts

This week: Homes built in the 1980s

The bottom line

Trade: Tariffs may hike foreign car prices

Social media: TikTok returns to app stores

A boom in stolen cars

Tech stocks: The big get bigger…and bigger

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Trump’s tariffs: A new era of protectionism

Will Trump honor U.S. Treasurys?

Murdoch’s family tragedy

The nurse who broke the Army’s color barrier • Nancy Leftenant-Colon 1920—2025

The amateur historian who advised Reagan • Suzanne Massie 1931—2025

The artist who created iconic posters for Godspell and Hendrix • David Edward Byrd 1941—2025

Hitler’s oligarchs

The Week Contest