The Week: A Comical, Comprehensive, and Concise News Magazine

"All you need to know about everything that matters" is certainly a lofty claim for a thin magazine, but for the news periodical, The Week, it is true to its motto. With the plethora of information deluging us during these fast paced days, The Week is a compilation of what they feel is the best media coverage of stories in both the United States and abroad. The Week consistently delivers newsworthy facts and stories in an informative, clever, and balanced manner that makes it highly enjoyable to read.

People on varying sides of the political aisle appreciate The Week. When reporting on a story, The Week will tell you what The Boston Globe reported, and then will explain how Investor's Business Daily reported something contradictory, then may even offer a third, different point of view from an editorial. I walk away from reading The Week feeling as though I got the entire story without a right or left wing slant. The Week's writers scour newspapers throughout the world to provide us with complete information on pages including 'Controversy of the week' and 'How they see us.'

Less than 40 pages long with very few print advertisements, The Week conveys itself in short, well developed components, containing a lot of information. The various sections of the magazine include how the main news stories were covered, key news from the world, an interesting people page, snippets from compelling editorials and columns, funny political cartoons, science and health updates, reviews of book, movie, and art reviews, as well as a few more informative paragraphs and quotes on a wide range of current subjects.

Founded as three separate weekly news magazines in the United Kingdom, The Week seems to have retained its British humor and style. The front cover usually portrays an amusing political cartoon rendition and the inside presents the news in an entertaining, educational, nonpartisan format. I have been able to replace Time and Newsweek with the much more fun to read, The Week. Witty, comprehensive, and concise are The Week's keys to its readability.

The Week is a popular secret amongst both media and political elite. They are grateful for a resource that can help them be competent and informed, as are those of us who want to keep up with the news, but are busy and only able to spare a minute here and there. The Week can satisfy that need for pithy information. Another of its marketing slogans sums up The Week's fanciful way of conveying news and current events, "it's like steroids for your brain."