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

GOP moderates revolt as ACA subsidies set to expire

It wasn’t all bad

Note to readers

Trump lashes out at Reiner after director’s murder

FBI hunts for Brown University gunman

Trump vs. states: Who gets to regulate AI?

Only in America

Good week/bad week

In other news

The U.S. at a glance

The world at a glance

The roots of Thornton’s OCD

How Anka’s hustle paid off

Winslet’s beauty fears

In the news

Decking the halls

ICE’s barbaric war on mothers

The feud fracturing MAGA

A major mistake on marijuana

Viewpoint

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

Ignoring the lessons of Fukushima

Plot twist in our national pastime

Australia: Bondi Beach attack was ‘our Oct. 7’

How they see us: As U.S. steps back, Europe must step up

Yodeling: Our gift to the world

It’s still the economy, stupid!

Noted

Media: A bid to neuter the news

Trump: Too old to be president?

Tourism: An Orwellian new screening policy

Indiana: Is Trump’s power slipping?

Wit & Wisdom

Poll Watch

The Year in Review

40 questions to test your knowledge of this year’s events

Pick of the week’s cartoons

The way we were in 2025 • We fretted about affordability and political division but found escape in shopping and sports betting.

It must be true… • The best of the tabloids in 2025

AI: The new race to put data centers in orbit

Innovation of the week

Bytes: What’s new in tech

Some of the things they said were good for us and some of the things we were told to avoid

The big scientific breakthroughs of 2025 from a treatment for Huntington’s to real-life alchemy

Power shift: The arts in transition

Critics’ choice: The year’s best novels and the year’s best nonfiction

Critics’ choice: The year’s best albums

Songs of the year

Critics’ choice: The year’s top 10 movies

Critics’ choice: The year’s best TV

Gift guide: For those who have everything

Appetites now: The year in food trends

This week: The best homes of the year

The bottom line

Oracle: Stock slides on AI spending worries

Hollywood: Paramount hears ‘no’ again

A coupon program even NFL stars love

Jobs: Why the Federal Reserve cut rates again

What the experts say

Charity of the week

Nvidia: Trump’s dangerous gift to China

What is Disney doing with OpenAI?

Trade flows through the Red Sea again

Among those who died in 2025…

Not-so-silent night

The Week Contest