Here's what's in this week's issue of The Week magazine
5 April 2025
- Main stories: The shock verdict that has rocked France
- Controversy: Trump’s “liberation day”
- People: Jennifer Coolidge: “[In the past] I wasn’t aggressive enough.”
- Briefing: The West Bank settlers
- Best British article: Matters of trust in the years post-Covid
- Best American article: Trump’s war on lawyers: trampling over the Constitution
- Best International article: An uninvited guest: Vance’s pitch to Greenland
- Health & Science: Babies do make memories
- Talking points: Just Stop Oil lays down its soup cans
- Obituary: Richard Chamberlain: The clean-cut “king of the mini-series”
- The Last Word: At the bottom of the North Sea, out of air, with no hope of rescue
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