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 abandons Ukraine at the U.N.

What’s next?

DOGE slashes workforce with Trump’s backing

It wasn’t all bad

Defense: Why is Trump purging the Pentagon?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

Fonda’s footwear obsession

An American retiree’s Venezuela hell

Malkovich’s money mistakes

In the news

Removing ‘the enemy within’

What Musk’s black hat really signifies

Bondi’s unethical ‘lawfare’

The folly of eliminating taxes on tips

Viewpoint

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

Why Europe should partner with us

Don’t place your hopes in the U.S.

How they see us: Latin America takes Trump’s deportees

Germany: Can Merz be the unifier Europe needs?

The Germans coming to homeschool

Misogyny in the army can be deadly

Noted

Measles: Kennedy’s big disease test

DOGE: Is a backlash brewing?

CPAC: Scenes from a MAGA zoo

National parks: Feeling the pain of staff cuts

Wit & Wisdom

Poll watch

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Space-age living: The race for robot servants

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

The secret to language lies in our genes

Don’t eat from takeout boxes

Headphones hurt kids’ hearing

Dance for your exercise

The Roman basilica in London

Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious • Book of the week

Dream State • Novel of the week

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

Best books…chosen by Xochitl Gonzalez

Also of interest…in the varieties of uncoupling

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Author of the week

Liberation

Horsegirl • Phonetics On and On

Bartees Strange • Horror

Sam Fender • People Watching

Amazon’s coup: James Bond works for Bezos now

My Dead Friend Zoe

Ex-Husbands

Streaming tips • Ways of living

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Dark Winds • Show of the week

Critics’ choice: New takes on French cuisine

Chocolate crepes • Recipe of the week

Wine: Lighter Riojas

2025 Honda Civic Sport Touring Hybrid: What the critics say

The best of…at-home spa days

How to revive stale bakery bread • Tip of the week…

For enhancing photos with AI • Best apps…

This week: Homes in Boulder

The bottom line

Reputational risk: Europe turns against Tesla

Crypto: Regulators drop key suit against Coinbase

Beating the lottery odds, Texas-style

Entitlements: DOGE goes after Social Security

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Retail: Headwinds rattle Walmart investors

UnitedHealth faces a D.C. reckoning

Mixing upgeology andgeopolitics

The piano prodigy who sang Killing Me Softly • Roberta Flack 1937–2025

The actor who played straight man to Allen • Tony Roberts 1939–2025

The Columbine survivor who spread forgiveness and understanding • Anne Marie Hochhalter 1981–2025

Stretching out

The Week Contest