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

Texans freeze as power grid fails

U.S. coronavirus deaths top 500,000

Garland warns of domestic terrorism threat

Rush Limbaugh: How he changed conservatism

Good week/bad week

Only in America

Tiger Woods hospitalized

Vaccine delays

Zhao’s road to the Dakotas • Chloé Zhao

When Lowe decided to get sober • Rob Lowe

Why Novak fled Hollywood • Kim Novak

In the news

The forgotten nuclear threat

When will we be back to normal?

Biden’s Afghanistan choices

Anti-Asian violence on the rise

Viewpoint

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

A Christian ritual that tortures babies

Showdown over academic freedom

France: Finally, an age of consent

Australia: Facebook unfriends, then refriends, a nation

Forgotten casualties of the pandemic

More reason to oppose U.S. base

Flyin’ Ted: A gaffe for the ages

Iran: Is a new deal possible?

Noted

Cuomo: His troubles are mounting

1/6 commission: A needed reckoning?

Wit & Wisdom

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Media: Should Google, Facebook pay for news?

What’s new in tech • Bytes

Innovation of the week

Perseverance begins its search for life

Kids are half as susceptible…

…But MIS-C cases are rising

A drug to fight obesity

Was the dinosaur-destroyer a comet?

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need • Book of the week

No One Is Talking About This • Novel of the week

Calhoun: American Heretic

Chosen by Viet Thanh Nguyen • Best books…

In forbidden indulgences • Also of interest…

Rosa Brooks • Author of the week

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America • Exhibit of the week

New and notable podcasts

The Father

Allen v. Farrow: The docuseries that could torch Woody Allen’s legacy

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Streaming tips

Coming 2 America • Show of the week

Birria de res: The Mexican stew that has Instagram abuzz

Hotel-room dining: The luxuriously safe new way to eat out

Wine: California zinfandel

Pandemic parenting: How to help a depressed teenager

Distancing season: Making the most of it

Homes off the mainland

Boeing: More trouble for an aerospace giant

PPP: A loan window for the smallest businesses

The bottom line

Education: Americans lose confidence in college

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Travel: Few hints of spring for a battered industry

A surprising, inspiring hatchet job

Oracle wants to work with China’s cops

The Sicilian sculptor who put a bull on Wall Street • Arturo Di Modica, 1941–2021

The nun who became an anti-torture campaigner • Dianna Ortiz, 1958–2021

The godfather of salsa who got the world dancing to a Latin beat • Johnny Pacheco, 1935–2021

Half a million Americans are gone

Meat print • The Week contest