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

Accused murderer of George Floyd goes on trial

Mounting fears of a new Covid surge

It wasn’t all bad

Voting rights: Is Georgia’s new law Jim Crow 2.0?

Good week/bad week

Only in America

Abuse settlement

Carbon tax

Weaver’s life-changing break • Sigourney Weaver

Hockney’s love of lockdown life • David Hockney

Escaping Scientology’s house band • Neil Sarfati

In the news

Grading charter schools

When debt will no longer be cheap

The deadly price of Birx’s silence

Harris’ immigration hot seat

Viewpoint

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

Happiness is contentment, not ecstasy

Who’s related to the robber barons?

United Kingdom: Is flag waving patriotic or cringeworthy?

Australia: Floods and fires are the new normal

The other bottleneck in Egypt

Our silent military takeover

Biden’s first presser: The reviews are in

Afghanistan: Leaving, but not quite yet

Noted

Gun control: Déjà vu all over again?

Washington, D.C.: The battle over statehood

Wit & Wisdom

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Substack: A profitable refuge for ‘lightning-rod’ writers

What’s new in tech • Bytes

Innovation of the week

Passing Covid immunity from mom to baby

‘Oumuamua’s origin story

Downsides of intense exercise

Common cold vs. Covid

Trawling’s climate costs

Philip Roth: The Biography • Book of the week

The Performance • Novel of the week

The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens—and Ourselves

Chosen by Hanif Abdurraqib • Best books…

Rules to honor, rules to question • Also of interest…

Harlan Coben • Author of the week

Alice Neel: People Come First • Exhibit of the week

We Are • Jon Batiste

Promises • Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders

Sketchy • Tune-Yards

Godzilla vs. Kong

Nobody

Other new movies

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Streaming tips

The Nevers • Show of the week

Pernil: The signature pork roast of Puerto Rico

Kitchen tip: Microwave hacks every cook should know

Wine: Rediscovering Portugal

The 2021 Honda Ridgeline • What the critics say

Morning’s little pleasures • The best of…

Tip of the week… • How to haggle, even at Walmart

Homes in the mountains

Hedge funds: A $10 billion trading blowup

China: Targets H&M over Uyghur statement

The bottom line

UBI: A brave experiment or just welfare renamed?

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Trade: Finally, that ship has sailed

Covid did not bring this family closer

Breaking the minimum wage impasse

The Ramona writer who helped kids fall in love with books • Beverly Cleary, 1916–2021

The Texas author who wrote unsentimental tales of the West • Larry McMurtry, 1936–2021

The children’s crossing

Office prince • The Week contest