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December 2025
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- December 31st
- The Week’s big New Year’s Day quiz 2026
- Is tanking ruining sports?
- ‘Netflix needs to not just swallow HBO but also emulate it’
- Trump considers giving Ukraine a security guarantee
- Will the mystery of MH370 be solved?
- The 5 biggest astronomy stories of 2025
- The micro-resolutions to try in 2026
- What will happen in 2026? Predictions and events
- December 30th
- Why is Trump’s alleged strike on Venezuela shrouded in so much secrecy?
- Vance’s ‘next move will reveal whether the conservative movement can move past Trump’
- Why recognizing Somaliland is so risky for Israel
- Crossword: December 30, 2025
- What have Trump’s Mar-a-Lago summits achieved?
- The most anticipated movies of 2026
- The biggest viral moments of 2025
- Environment breakthroughs of 2025
- The 8 best comedy movies of 2025
- December 29th
- ‘Care fractures after birth’
- Shots fired in the US-EU war over digital censorship
- What will the US economy look like in 2026?
- Alaa Abd el-Fattah: should Egyptian dissident be stripped of UK citizenship?
- Why 2025 was a pivotal year for AI
- Biggest political break-ups and make-ups of 2025
- The best drama TV series of 2025
- Crossword: December 29, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 29, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 29, 2025
- Codeword: December 29, 2025
- December 28th
- December 27th
- December 26th
- US citizens are carrying passports amid ICE fears
- All roads to Ukraine-Russia peace run through the Donbas
- Why is Trump killing off clean energy?
- 8 restaurants that are exactly what you need this winter
- ‘This is a structural weakening of elder protections’
- 4 tips to safeguard your accounts against data breaches
- 31 questions to see how well you remember 2025
- Crossword: December 26, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 26, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 26, 2025
- Codeword: December 26, 2025
- The best tabloid stories of 2025
- December 25th
- 7 bars with comforting cocktails and great hospitality
- 7 recipes that meet you wherever you are during winter
- Nine best TV shows of the year
- Received a windfall? Here is what to do next.
- How to save more for retirement next year
- 7 hot cocktails to warm you across all of winter
- Video games to tackle this winter, including Marvel Cosmic Invasion and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
- Sudoku medium: December 25, 2025
- Crossword: December 25, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 25, 2025
- Codeword: December 25, 2025
- The Week’s end-of-year quiz for 2025
- Winter holidays in the snow and sun
- December 24th
- Oklahoma fires instructor over gender essay grade
- Trump appears numerous times in new Epstein batch
- Supreme Court bars Trump’s military use in Chicago
- Which side is JD Vance taking for MAGA’s infighting?
- Campus security is under scrutiny again after the Brown shooting
- 8 new cookbooks begging to be put to good winter use
- Bari Weiss’ ‘60 Minutes’ scandal is about more than one report
- ‘Journalism is on notice’
- A foodie guide to Edinburgh
- Political cartoons for December 24
- The history of US nuclear weapons on UK soil
- Tea with Judi Dench: ‘touching’ show is must-watch Christmas TV
- Sudoku medium: December 24, 2025
- Crossword: December 24, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 24, 2025
- Codeword: December 24, 2025
- Blinkit: India’s 10-minute delivery app
- December 23rd
- Trump vs. states: Who gets to regulate AI?
- Decking the halls
- Tariffs have American whiskey distillers on the rocks
- Danes ‘outraged’ at revived Trump Greenland push
- ‘Tension has been building inside Heritage for a long time’
- Trump unveils new ‘Trump class’ US warships
- Trump halts wind power projects, citing ‘security’
- Let these comedians help you laugh your way through winter
- Will the new year bring a new shutdown?
- Political cartoons for December 23
- Is Keir Starmer being hoodwinked by China?
- A peek inside Europe’s luxury new sleeper bus
- Data centers could soon be orbiting in space
- Sudoku medium: December 23, 2025
- Crossword: December 23, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 23, 2025
- Codeword: December 23, 2025
- December 22nd
- How climate change is affecting Christmas
- The MAGA civil war takes center stage at the Turning Point USA conference
- The 8 best drama movies of 2025
- Why, really, is Trump going after Venezuela?
- Israel approves new West Bank settlements
- CBS pulls ‘60 Minutes’ report on Trump deportees
- Trump administration posts sliver of Epstein files
- ‘The point here is not to be anti-tech but to rebalance a dynamic’
- Political cartoons for December 22
- Guess the Number: December 2025
- Guess the Number: November 2025
- Guess the Number: October 2025
- Is Trump deliberately redacting Epstein files to shield himself?
- The strangely resilient phenomenon of stowaways on planes
- Four Seasons Seoul: a fascinating blend of old and new in South Korea
- How to make the most of chestnuts
- Deaths of children under 5 have gone up for the first time this century
- Sudoku medium: December 22, 2025
- Crossword: December 22, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 22, 2025
- Codeword: December 22, 2025
- The best homes of the year
- December 21st
- Critics’ choice: The year’s top 10 movies
- Paradise sold? The small Caribbean island courting crypto billions
- Political cartoons for December 21
- A luxury walking tour in Western Australia
- What Nick Fuentes and the Groypers want
- 5 highly amusing cartoons about rising health insurance premiums
- Sudoku medium: December 21, 2025
- Crossword: December 21, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 21, 2025
- Codeword: December 21, 2025
- December 20th
- December 19th
- Received a gift card this holiday season? Here’s how to maximize it.
- Escape your Echo Chamber
- Escape your Echo Chamber
- Escape your Echo Chamber
- Escape your Echo Chamber
- Escape your Echo Chamber
- ‘Lumpy skin’ protests intensify across France as farmers fight cull
- The best books of 2025
- Inside Minnesota’s extensive fraud schemes
- ‘What a corrective to such nonsense’
- TikTok secures deal to remain in US
- Trump HHS moves to end care for trans youth
- Why does Trump want to reclassify marijuana?
- Sole suspect in Brown, MIT shootings found dead
- Appetites now: 2025 in food trends
- Political cartoons for December 19
- Who is paying for Europe’s €90bn Ukraine loan?
- Quiz of The Week: 13 – 19 December
- What’s causing the non-fiction slump?
- What is the global intifada?
- The Week Unwrapped: What’s the cost of PFAs?
- The week’s best photos
- Crest falling: Mount Rainier and 4 other mountains are losing height
- Sudoku medium: December 19, 2025
- Crossword: December 19, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 19, 2025
- Codeword: December 19, 2025
- Russia’s ‘weird’ campaign to boost its birth rate
- December 18th
- Could smaller cars bring down vehicle prices?
- The best music of 2025
- Trump aims to take down ‘global mothership’ of climate science
- Oscars jump to YouTube after decades at ABC
- Jack Smith tells House of ‘proof’ of Trump’s crimes
- House GOP revolt forces vote on ACA subsidies
- ‘Kast’s victory is a political and ethical earthquake’
- Turner Prize 2025: ‘artistic excellence’ or ‘cultural nonsense’?
- Man vs Baby: Rowan Atkinson stars in an accidental adoption comedy
- Goodbye June: Kate Winslet’s directorial debut divides critics
- A Christmas Carol (or two)
- Political cartoons for December 18
- Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: ‘funny, profound, must-see theatre’
- Magazine solutions - December 19, 2025
- How weight-loss jabs are changing the way we eat
- Sudoku hard: December 18, 2025
- Crossword: December 18, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 18, 2025
- Codeword: December 18, 2025
- Antibiotic resistance: the hidden danger on Ukraine’s frontlines
- December 17th
- ‘Capitalism: A Global History’ by Sven Beckert and ‘American Canto’ by Olivia Nuzzi
- Who will the new limits on student loans affect?
- Why does White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles have MAGA in a panic?
- The most memorable podcasts of 2025
- What is Roomba’s legacy after iRobot bankruptcy?
- SiriusXM hopes a new Howard Stern deal can turn its fortunes around
- Unemployment rate ticks up amid fall job losses
- The Week contest: Octopus album
- Hegseth rejects release of full boat strike footage
- ‘It’s another clarifying moment in our age of moral collapse’
- Trump vows naval blockade of most Venezuelan oil
- Political cartoons for December 17
- Trump vs. BBC: what’s at stake?
- Animal Farm: has Andy Serkis made a pig’s ear of Orwell?
- What new cryptocurrency regulations mean for investors
- The Salt Path Scandal: ‘excellent’ documentary of a ‘tawdry tale’
- AI griefbots create a computerized afterlife
- Sudoku hard: December 17, 2025
- Crossword: December 17, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 17, 2025
- Codeword: December 17, 2025
- December 16th
- Metaverse: Zuckerberg quits his virtual obsession
- Frank Gehry: the architect who made buildings flow like water
- Is MAGA melting down?
- Kushner drops Trump hotel project in Serbia
- Son arrested over killing of Rob and Michele Reiner
- US offers Ukraine NATO-like security pact, with caveats
- Trump wants to build out AI with a new ‘Tech Force’
- The Alps start the countdown to ‘peak glacier extinction’
- ‘It’s hard not to feel for the distillers’
- A long weekend in Fontainebleau
- Political cartoons for December 16
- How cryptocurrency is changing politics
- Shush! UK libraries worth travelling for
- The 8 best comedy series of 2025
- A fentanyl vaccine may be on the horizon
- Sudoku hard: December 16, 2025
- Crossword: December 16, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 16, 2025
- Codeword: December 16, 2025
- December 15th
- Pipe bombs: The end of a conspiracy theory?
- The robot revolution
- Health: Will Kennedy dismantle U.S. immunization policy?
- 3 ways to reduce the cost of owning a car
- DOJ targets ‘disparate impact’ avenues of discrimination protection
- ‘Consistency at the ballot box isn’t nearly as meaningful to many voters here’
- 8 touring theater productions to see this winter, all across the United States
- Rob Reiner, wife dead in ‘apparent homicide’
- Hong Kong court convicts democracy advocate Lai
- Australia weighs new gun laws after antisemitic attack
- Are Donald Trump’s peace deals unraveling?
- Political cartoons for December 15
- Who is fuelling the flames of antisemitism in Australia?
- How Bulgaria’s government fell amid mass protests
- Sudoku medium: December 15, 2025
- Crossword: December 15, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 15, 2025
- Codeword: December 15, 2025
- 6 lovely barn homes
- Film reviews: ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Is This Thing On?’
- December 14th
- December 13th
- Political cartoons for December 13
- The issue dividing Israel: ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers
- Nigel Farage’s £9mn windfall: will it smooth his path to power?
- Sudoku medium: December 13, 2025
- Crossword: December 13, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 13, 2025
- Codeword: December 13, 2025
- 5 prize-winning cartoons about Donald Trump's appetite for awards
- December 12th
- Will Trump’s $12 billion bailout solve the farm crisis?
- ‘City leaders must recognize its residents as part of its lifeblood’
- 10 upcoming albums to stream during the winter chill
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem might not be long for Trumpland
- Senate votes down ACA subsidies, GOP alternative
- Abrego García freed from jail on judge’s order
- Indiana Senate rejects Trump’s gerrymander push
- Political cartoons for December 12
- The Week Unwrapped: what’s scuppering Bulgaria’s Euro dream?
- Will there be peace before Christmas in Ukraine?
- Quiz of The Week: 6 – 12 December
- The week’s best photos
- More than a zipper: Young Black men embrace the ‘quarter-zip movement’
- Sudoku medium: December 12, 2025
- Crossword: December 12, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 12, 2025
- Codeword: December 12, 2025
- Denmark scraps letters and its iconic red postboxes
- December 11th
- What role will Trump play in the battle over Warner Bros. Discovery?
- ‘The menu’s other highlights smack of the surreal’
- Education: More Americans say college isn’t worth it
- One great cookbook: Natasha Pickowicz’s ‘More Than Cake’
- Democrat files to impeach RFK Jr.
- Constitutional rights are at the center of FBI agents’ lawsuit
- $1M ‘Trump Gold Card’ goes live amid travel rule furor
- US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela
- Political cartoons for December 11
- It Was Just an Accident: a ‘striking’ attack on the Iranian regime
- Singin’ in the Rain: fun Christmas show is ‘pure bottled sunshine’
- Holbein: ‘a superb and groundbreaking biography’
- The Sound of Music: a ‘richly entertaining’ festive treat
- Nnela Kalu’s historic Turner Prize win
- Bridget Riley: Learning to See – an ‘invigorating and magical ensemble’
- ‘Stakeknife’: MI5’s man inside the IRA
- Oh yes they are! The UK’s best Christmas pantos
- The longevity economy booms as people live longer
- Sudoku hard: December 11, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 11, 2025
- Crossword: December 11, 2025
- Codeword: December 11, 2025
- December 10th
- How will China’s $1 trillion trade surplus change the world economy?
- ‘Autarky and nostalgia aren’t cure-alls’
- Japan’s Princess Aiko is a national star. Her fans want even more.
- Australia’s teen social media ban takes effect
- Judge orders release of Ghislaine Maxwell records
- Miami elects first Democratic mayor in 28 years
- Political cartoons for December 10
- The Week contest: No smoking
- Phish food for thought: Ben & Jerry’s political turmoil
- Magazine solutions - December 12, 2025
- ECHR: is Europe about to break with convention?
- Normalising relations with the Taliban in Afghanistan
- Best poetry books of 2025
- ‘Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right’ by Laura K. Field and ‘The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare’ by Daniel Swift
- How to shop smarter with a grocery budget
- Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets
- 11 extra-special holiday gifts for everyone on your list
- Sudoku hard: December 10, 2025
- Crossword: December 10, 2025
- Codeword: December 10, 2025
- December 9th
- The curious history of hanging coffins
- The Trump administration says it deports dangerous criminals. ICE data tells a different story.
- Ex-FBI agents sue Patel over protest firing
- The real tragedy that inspired ‘Hamlet,’ the life of a pingpong prodigy and the third ‘Avatar’ adventure in December movies
- ‘Toxic chemicals emitted by those facilities can ravage the human body’
- Trump unveils $12B bailout for tariff-hit farmers
- Paramount fights Netflix for Warner as Trump hovers
- How will the Warner Bros. bidding war affect the entertainment industry?
- Political cartoons for December 9
- How dangerous is the ‘K’ strain super-flu?
- Sudoku hard: December 9, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 9, 2025
- Crossword: December 9, 2025
- Codeword: December 9, 2025
- Homes with great fireplaces
- December 8th
- Is $140,000 the real poverty line?
- Film reviews: ‘The Secret Agent’ and ‘Zootopia 2’
- Trump: Losing energy and support
- Texts from a scammer
- What will next year’s housing market look like?
- Is Trump in a bubble?
- ‘Managed wildfires have spread out of control before’
- Separating the real from the fake: tips for spotting AI slop
- Europe sets 2027 deadline to wean itself from Russian gas
- Benin thwarts coup attempt
- Trump’s Comey case dealt new setback
- Moscow cheers Trump’s new ‘America First’ strategy
- Political cartoons for December 8
- Did Trump just end the US-Europe alliance?
- How the War Department became the Department of Defense – and back again
- Sudoku hard: December 8, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 8, 2025
- Crossword: December 8, 2025
- Codeword: December 8, 2025
- December 7th
- December 6th
- December 5th
- Can Mike Johnson keep his job?
- A postapocalyptic trip to Sin City, a peek inside Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ tour, and an explicit hockey romance in December TV
- ‘These accounts clearly are designed as a capitalist alternative’
- Trump tightens restrictions for work visas
- Stopping GLP-1s raises complicated questions for pregnancy
- Supreme Court revives Texas GOP gerrymander
- Boat strike footage rattles some lawmakers
- Elizabeth Gilbert chooses books about women overcoming difficulty
- Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals – a ‘thrilling’ exhibition
- Political cartoons for December 5
- Choline: the ‘under-appreciated’ nutrient
- Is a Putin-Modi love-in a worry for the West?
- Quiz of The Week: 29 November – 5 December
- The week’s best photos
- The Week Unwrapped: Will drought fuel global violence?
- Sudoku hard: December 5, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 5, 2025
- Crossword: December 5, 2025
- Codeword: December 5, 2025
- December 4th
- The great global copper swindle
- ‘They’re nervous about playing the game’
- Will Netanyahu get a pardon?
- December’s books feature otherworldly tales, a literary icon’s life story and an adult royal romp
- Trump boosts gas cars in fuel economy rollback
- Hegseth’s Signal chat put troops in peril, probe finds
- Texas is trying to become America’s next financial hub
- Trump pardons Texas Democratic congressman
- The Week contest: Primate peck
- Paddington: The Musical – a ‘funny, feel-good, family-friendly’ show
- Political cartoons for December 4
- Wake Up Dead Man: ‘arch and witty’ Knives Out sequel
- Zootropolis 2: a ‘perky and amusing’ movie
- The stalled fight against HIV
- Storyteller: a ‘fitting tribute’ to Robert Louis Stevenson
- Is Europe finally taking the war to Russia?
- How coupling up became cringe
- The rapid-fire brilliance of Tom Stoppard
- How your household budget could look in 2026
- Inside a Black community’s fight against Elon Musk’s supercomputer
- Sudoku hard: December 4, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 4, 2025
- Crossword: December 4, 2025
- Codeword: December 4, 2025
- December 3rd
- China’s single mothers are teaming up
- Employees are branching out rather than moving up with career minimalism
- ‘It is their greed and the pollution from their products that hurt consumers’
- Jane Austen lives on at these timeless hotels
- ‘Mexico: A 500-Year History’ by Paul Gillingham and ‘When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy’ by David Margolick
- GOP wins tight House race in red Tennessee district
- Are the US boat strikes a war crime?
- Trump targets ‘garbage’ Somalis ahead of ICE raids
- Hegseth blames ‘fog of war’ for potential war crime
- Upper House Hong Kong: a serene sanctuary in the bustle of the city
- Magazine solutions - December 5, 2025
- Marty Supreme: Timothée Chalamet is ‘captivating’ as ‘ping-pong prodigy’
- Political cartoons for December 3
- Is a Reform-Tory pact becoming more likely?
- West Africa’s ‘coup cascade’
- Daddy Pig: an unlikely flashpoint in the gender wars
- Sudoku hard: December 3, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 3, 2025
- Crossword: December 3, 2025
- Codeword: December 3, 2025
- Homo floresiensis: Earth’s real-life ‘hobbits’
- December 2nd
- Homes by renowned architects
- Looming drone ban has farmers and farm-state Republicans anxious
- Mind-expanding podcasts you may have missed this fall
- ‘It’s critical that Congress get involved’
- Blackouts: Why the internet keeps breaking
- Canada joins EU’s $170B SAFE defense fund
- Who will be the next Fed chair?
- Appeals court disqualifies US Attorney Alina Habba
- White House says admiral ordered potential war crime
- Political cartoons for December 2
- Stranger Things, series five: ‘grander and gorier’ than ever
- Pros and cons of geothermal energy
- Should the right to trial by jury be untouchable?
- Australia’s teens brace for social media ban
- Labour’s dilemma on workers’ rights
- Coaches’ salary buyouts are generating questions for colleges
- Sudoku medium: December 2, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 2, 2025
- Crossword: December 2, 2025
- Codeword: December 2, 2025
- Film reviews: ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ and ‘Eternity’
- December 1st
- Poems can force AI to reveal how to make nuclear weapons
- The military: When is an order illegal?
- Coffee jitters
- Ukraine and Rubio rewrite Russia’s peace plan
- Are Republicans going to do a deal on health care?
- The powerful names in the Epstein emails
- May your loved ones eat, drink and be merry with these 9 edible Christmas gifts
- ‘The choice isn’t between domestic and foreign talent; the nation was built on both’
- RFK Jr. sets his sights on linking antidepressants to mass violence
- Death toll from Southeast Asia storms tops 1,000
- Honduras votes amid Trump push, pardon vow
- 49 political cartoons from November 2025
- Congress seeks answers in ‘kill everybody’ strike report
- Political cartoons for December 1
- The launch of Your Party: how it could work
- Andriy Yermak: how weak is Zelenskyy without his right-hand man?
- Is it time to rethink the US presidential pardon?
- Step into a fairy tale at San Ysidro Ranch
- Best panettones for Christmas 2025: tried and tasted
- Sudoku medium: December 1, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 1, 2025
- Crossword: December 1, 2025
- Codeword: December 1, 2025
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