The Best of The Week
10+ most popular The Week articles, as voted by our community.
All you need to know about everything that matters.
The Week on Books
From 'thunks' to mixed reality, the future of books is interactive
What is in store for literature in an increasingly digital world?
The Week on Climate Crisis
The extreme weather events of 2023
Extreme weather events are becoming more common thanks to climate change, and are 'affecting every corner of the world'
The Week on Politics
How the Bible became conservative book bans' unintended target
As a Republican-led push to purge books picks up steam, some communities are zeroing in on a text that's chock full of sex and violence
The Week on Star Wars
What is the future of Star Wars?
Everything we know about all the incoming projects from a galaxy far, far away…
The Week on Twitter
The Week on Wealth
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The female price of male pleasure
Let's talk about bad sex
«PubMed has almost five times as many clinical trials on male sexual pleasure as it has on female sexual pain»
15 pairs of words that seem etymologically related but aren't
There's no bomb in bombast
The last man who knew everything
It hardly seems likely that the life of an obscure Anglican clergyman should recommend itself to the attention of a modern biographer. But Sabine Baring-Gould happens to have been the last man who…
America's crushing teacher shortage
The beginning of the school year is quickly approaching but thousands of teaching positions remain unfilled
The case against American truck bloat
A pointless design trend has turned trucks into dangerous pedestrian killers
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