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

Global anxiety rises over Omicron variant

Supreme Court signals Roe may fall

It wasn’t all bad

Biden: Why are his approval ratings so low?

Good week/bad week

Only in America

School shooting

Not a native

Iran talks back on

Cornwell’s childhood abandonment • Patricia Cornwell

Stewart’s lessons in lust • Rod Stewart

Lawrence gets a life • Jennifer Lawrence

In the news

Legally rigging elections

Will Garland let Jan. 6 plotters go?

The deadly price of bail reform

Taxpayer funding for anti-vaxxers

Viewpoint

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

Replacing economics with Islamism

Boris has lost his Teflon talents

Europe: France and U.K. bicker over migrant drownings

South Africa: Punished for identifying Omicron

Quebec wants a bigger say

The perils of speaking Konglish

The Arbery verdict: What does it tell us?

Democracy: Is it in real danger?

Noted

‘Smash and grab’: A growing crime problem

DeJoy: Why he may lose his job

Wit & Wisdom

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Kids: The emotional costs of social media

Bytes: What’s new in tech

Innovation of the week

NASA’s mission to ‘nudge’ an asteroid

Will Delta mutate into extinction?

Cannabis use in pregnancy

Birds fake their own deaths

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story • Book of the week

The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece

The Every • Novel of the week

chosen by Emerald Fennell • Best books…

in wintry escapes • Also of interest…

Claire Oshetsky • Author of the week

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction • Exhibit of the week

Clyde’s

House of Gucci

2022’s Grammy nominations: A resurgence of the oldies

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Streaming tips • For tales behind the music…

And Just Like That… • Show of the week

Critics’ choice: A comeback for fine Chinese food

Kimchi latkes • Recipe of the week

Spirits: Giftable Scotches

Joining the fight for Brazil’s rain forest • This week’s dream

Chicago’s worst architecture • Getting the flavor of…

Club Med Québec • Hotel of the week Charlevoix, Quebec

Homes in Charleston, S.C.

Retail: Higher prices boost weak Black Friday

Powell: Quicker end to pandemic support

The bottom line

Salaries: A push for pay transparency

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Silicon Valley: A sudden exit for Twitter’s CEO

Distrusting colleagues we can’t see

The price of admission to the ‘rich’ club

The songwriter who became musical theater’s Shakespeare • Stephen Sondheim, 1930–2021

The anti-war poet who launched a men’s movement • Robert Bly, 1926–2021

Last exit from Afghanistan

How to enter • The Week Contest