Here's what's in this week's issue of The Week magazine
8 February 2025
- Main stories: Trump’s trade wars: Will his brinkmanship backfire?
- Controversy: The third runway
- People: Bill Gates’s troubled childhood
- Briefing: The “spy cops” scandal
- Best British article: A police force unfit for the 21st century
- Best American article: Mission aborted: Trump’s federal spending freeze
- Best International article: How war returned to DR Congo
- Health & Science: Why it may be good to itch
- Talking points: Disaster in DC: politicising a tragedy
- Obituary: Marianne Faithfull: The turbulent life of a Sixties icon
- The Last Word: Cocaine galore: how a remote island was inundated with drugs
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