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
Jobs report sparks debate over Biden’s policies
It wasn’t all bad
House Republicans oust Cheney
Vaccines authorized for younger teens as Covid cases fall
Social media: Facebook’s Trump problem
Good week/bad week
Only in America
Racing on ’roids
Pipeline fight
Eilish’s body-image battles • Billie Eilish
Rogen, stoned and hard at work • Seth Rogen
Advice from a Simpsons legend • John Swartzwelder
In the news
Vaccinating the world
The bizarre Arizona election ‘audit’
Did a lab create the coronavirus?
America’s declining birth rate
Viewpoint
I read it in the tabloids • It must be true…
Where your body belongs to the state
A bluntly honest homage to the emperor
United Kingdom: A new push for Scottish independence
Russia: Demolishing the final vestiges of democracy
How can we endure this nightmare?
Exiling mothers for protecting their babies
DeSantis: Fox News’ ‘golden child’
Subsidized day care: Good for parents and kids?
Noted
Meat eating: The latest culture war
Masks: Why the vaccinated still wear them
Wit & Wisdom
Pick of the week’s cartoons
Cybercrime: A tightening web of threats and attacks
What's new in tech • Bytes
Innovation of the week
A psychedelic drug to cure PTSD?
The whitest white paint
Our disappearing glaciers
Pollution may hamper memory
Survival of the stinkiest
Book of the week Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
Great Circle • Novel of the week
Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World
Chosen by John McWhorter • Best books…
In idols revisited • Also of interest…
Stacey Abrams • Author of the week
Dawoud Bey: An American Project • Exhibit of the week
The Last Match
Maya Lin’s ‘ghost forest’
The Killing of Two Lovers
The Marfa Tapes • Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall
Super What? • Czarface & MF Doom
The end of the Globes?
The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Movies on TV • Comfort TV…
In Treatment • Show of the week
Fear-free fish stew: A new dinner staple from Nigella Lawson
Spirits: Mexican whiskey
Restaurants: Pandemic pivots that ought to be permanent
The 2022 Infiniti QX55 • What the critics say
Adventures with kids • The best of…
Tip of the week… • Surprising uses for mouthwash
This week: Homes for big families
Inflation: Sudden jump raises economic fears
JEDI: Pentagon may cancel $10 billion deal
The bottom line
Work world: Pandemic eases some paths to retirement
What the experts say
Charity of the week
Vaccines: Should Covid-19 trump patent protections?
U.S. factories are stuck in neutral
Cheaper cities are gettingexpensive
The hard-charger who triumphed at the Indy 500 • Bobby Unser, 1934–2021
The photographer who took soul-stealing shots • June Newton, 1923–2021
The pioneering chemist who helped invent a lifesaving diabetes test • Helen Murray Free, 1923–2021