The Week | All you need to know about everything that matters

Covid.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz6t { display: none !important; }

Briefing

Delta vs. the vaccines

The U.S. is seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant. Just how dangerous is it? Here's everything you need to know.

Times Square.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz6v { display: none !important; }

Feature

How much fuel is still in the economy's tank?

Investors are wondering how quickly the global economy can keep growing

Nancy Pelosi.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz6x { display: none !important; }

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz6y { display: none !important; }

Pelosi's savvy Jan. 6 outreach

An elephant.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz70 { display: none !important; }

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz71 { display: none !important; }

The GOP's sunny future

Conservatives are feeling gloomy about California. But there's an alternative in the East.

Speed Reads

July 24, 2021

.polaris__article-card--date { display: none; } .polaris__article-card--date.no-script { display: block; } July 24, 2021

Why it may be a 'grave mistake' for FDA to wait for full vaccine approval

July 24, 2021

.polaris__article-card--date { display: none; } .polaris__article-card--date.no-script { display: block; } July 24, 2021

Republicans accuse Pelosi of holding bipartisan infrastructure package 'hostage'

July 24, 2021

.polaris__article-card--date { display: none; } .polaris__article-card--date.no-script { display: block; } July 24, 2021

Is Biden 'baiting' Trump into Virginia gubernatorial race?

July 24, 2021

.polaris__article-card--date { display: none; } .polaris__article-card--date.no-script { display: block; } July 24, 2021

Former FDA commissioner: CDC 'doesn't know how to model' latest COVID-19 wave

July 24, 2021

.polaris__article-card--date { display: none; } .polaris__article-card--date.no-script { display: block; } July 24, 2021

Biden PAC warns swing state supporters know little about accomplishments

July 24, 2021

.polaris__article-card--date { display: none; } .polaris__article-card--date.no-script { display: block; } July 24, 2021

How Russia is skirting ban on nationality markers at Olympics

Politics

Uncle Sam.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7f { display: none !important; }

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7g { display: none !important; }

Mandatory vaccinations?

President Biden.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7i { display: none !important; }

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7j { display: none !important; }

W. James Antle III

An incoherent approach to governance?

Nicholas Kristof.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7l { display: none !important; }

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7m { display: none !important; }

Bonnie Kristian

The pitfalls of the journalist-politician

Bill Cassidy.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7o { display: none !important; }

infrastructure

Republicans accuse Pelosi of holding bipartisan infrastructure package 'hostage'

Simone Biles.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7q { display: none !important; }

Feature

Tokyo's must-watch events

How to see what you actually want to see from the 2020 Games

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7s { display: none !important; }

Subscribe

The Week Magazine

Escape your echo chamber with The Week and get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

Subscribe & Save

Culture

Ted Lasso.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7x { display: none !important; }

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz7y { display: none !important; }

Ted Lasso does it again?

Cars after a flood.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz80 { display: none !important; }

Photos

The week's best photojournalism

Editorial Cartoon.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz82 { display: none !important; }

Feature

5 toons about Fox News' vaccine confusion

Simone Biles.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz84 { display: none !important; }

Daily gossip

The daily gossip: July 23, 2021

Cartoons

Business & Tech

Portland.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz8s { display: none !important; }

Briefing

How will cities adapt to extreme heat?

Social media logos.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz8u { display: none !important; }

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz8v { display: none !important; }

W. James Antle III

A bipartisan backlash to Big Tech?

Disappearing store.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz8x { display: none !important; }

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz8y { display: none !important; }

Addison Del Mastro

The decline of medium-box stores

Times Square.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz90 { display: none !important; }

Feature

How much fuel is still in the economy's tank?

More from...

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz96 { display: none !important; }

Damon Linker

Trump walks to White House.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz97 { display: none !important; }

Opinion

Trump's path back to the presidency

Donald Rumsfeld.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz99 { display: none !important; }

Opinion

The war Donald Rumsfeld won

A lonely person.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz9b { display: none !important; }

Opinion

The politics of loneliness

A flag.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz9d { display: none !important; }

Opinion

The civil war of 2024?

Most Popular

Covid variants

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz9n { display: none !important; }

1.Last Night on Late Night

Late night host say the Olympics have other worries than COVID's Delta variant

Ronny Jackson.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz9p { display: none !important; }

2.swing and a miss

GOP lawmaker breaks 'first rule of whataboutism' with vaccine complaint

Tom Brady, Joe Biden

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz9r { display: none !important; }

3.Quotables

Tom Brady's 'gentle' roast of Trump at Biden's White House: 'Deeply vicious'?

Megan Rapinoe

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz9t { display: none !important; }

4.'dumb stuff'

Rapinoe addresses resounding Olympic loss to Sweden

5.better know a stephen

Daily Show creators recount stealing Colbert from GMA

6.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxz9w { display: none !important; }

The myth of 'woke capital'

7.should have listened to her

Melania Trump reportedly tried 4 times to block an election night party at the White House

8.T Hanks for the memories

Tom Hanks customized his Airstream with a fireplace

Celebrating 20 years of The Week

The Week.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxza6 { display: none !important; }

Feature

A short history of The Week

Week covers.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxza8 { display: none !important; }

Feature

20 years of history through The Week's covers

September 11.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxzaa { display: none !important; }

Photos

The past 20 years, in 20 striking photos

A computer.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxzac { display: none !important; }

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxzad { display: none !important; }

The world that Google, Facebook, and Twitter built

Latest

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxzaj { display: none !important; }

the coronavirus crisis

Why it may be a 'grave mistake' for FDA to wait for full vaccine approval

Bill Cassidy.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxzal { display: none !important; }

infrastructure

Republicans accuse Pelosi of holding bipartisan infrastructure package 'hostage'

Joe Biden, Terry McAuffile.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxzan { display: none !important; }

the baiting game

Is Biden 'baiting' Trump into Virginia gubernatorial race?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_5cpjqkriqxzap { display: none !important; }

the coronavirus crisis

Former FDA commissioner: CDC 'doesn't know how to model' latest COVID-19 wave