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 casts blame for second assassination attempt

It wasn’t all bad

Harris gains ground in swing state battles

Israel attacks Hezbollah with exploding pagers

Springfield, Ohio: Why Trump is smearing Haitian migrants

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

Garten’s austere upbringing

Strolling between skyscrapers

What Kravitz missed about her mom

In the news

The tangle of state voting laws

How to win the votes of undecideds

Musk’s ‘joke’ about killing Biden, Harris

The plan to intimidate voters

Viewpoint

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

A gift to the far right: closed borders

Smearing the Irish as redneck bigots

European Union: Lagging far, far behind the U.S.

Mexico: Judicial takeover raises fears of one-party rule

Don’t be pawns in Republicans’ political games

Protesters don’t deserve death penalty

Noted

Ukraine: Its need for long-range missiles

Swift’s endorsement: Does it matter?

Trump: Why is he listening to Laura Loomer?

Tyreek Hill: A troubling run-in with police

Wit & Wisdom

Poll watch

Pick of the week’s cartoons

Regulation: Europe puts on the squeeze

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

Bat die-off led to deaths of human infants

A way to see through flesh

Pandemic aged teen girls’ brains

Black women and C-sections

Mercury’s strange craters

Tell Me Everything • Book of the week

The Life Impossible

Reagan: His Life and Legend

Best books…chosen by Abbott Kahler

Also of interest…in football-season reading

Liane Moriarty • Author of the week

The Roommate

Royko: The Toughest Man in Chicago

Postcards From Texas • Miranda Lambert

My Method Actor • Nilüfer Yanya

Endlessness • Nala Sinephro

My Old Ass

Speak No Evil

The 2024 Emmys: An upset for The Bear and a Shogun romp

Streaming tips • A true-crime roundup

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Nobody Wants This • Show of the week

Stuffed cabbage pie: Comfort food with a hint of flair • Recipe of the week

Japanese-style bars: A growing New York City specialty

Wine: Rediscovering Spain

This week’s dream: The many enchantments of Copenhagen

Populus • Hotel of the week

Virginia’s Northern Neck

This week: Homes in Nashville

The bottom line

Economy: Fed cuts rates as inflation fight ends

National security: TikTok seeks to forestall U.S. ban

Lego’s best set: The staff minifigs

Founder Mode: Management goes hard-core

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Strike: Walkout adds to Boeing’s troubles

Fire a CEO? Nike should just do it.

Both parties are wrong on U.S. Steel

The thunder-voiced actor who commanded the screen • James Earl Jones 1931–2024

The Holocaust survivor who revolutionized surgery • George Berci 1921–2024

Working on God’s time

The Week Contest