The Week Magazine

1: Positive: The subscription was ordered for 2 grandchildren. They enjoy the magazine and I am considering gifting it to others.

2: Negative: The billing department seems to be challenged. When I ordered the TWJ I provided my credit card info. When it was not charged, I was told my credit card info was not on file. I was rather surprised. So I made an additional payment through my banks' bill pay system. They have received over $200 with no accountability.

Logging on I cannot see any payments made - what kind of company does not show payments and balance?
I have tried repeatedly to get this issue corrected to no avail.

3: While I would like to give TWJ 5 stars for content, it is a 1 star due to poor customer service and billing issues.

I really look forward to THE WEEK every week. Does not do in-depth reporting, which is fine with me. There are other news sources for that.

Current events are presented with quotes from other news outlets, liberal as well as conservative. These are written mostly in an opinion/rebuttal format.
That format does not favor one worldview over another. I do like the first page editorial which leans more left than right, but is always worth reading whether you agree or not.

Arts, finance, food and a couple of pages on real estate are in the back half of the magazine. "It's Not All Bad News", "Must Be True I Read It In the Tabloids" and "Good Week For/Bad Week For" are interspersed between the more serious news. These sidebars are light-hearted and entertaining.

I look forward to reading The Week--I love the overview of various news sources. The collection and selection of sources is great and allows me to get a taste of different opinions. My only gripe, and it's a big one, is that the subscription costs are always unclear, and always changing, and I am getting charged, via their auto-renewal, about twice what I should be. Be very clear when you subscribe what you are paying for, and when. The latest attempt to autorenew was for about $245.

A few years ago it was a middle of the road source of information. I think it slowly drifted left after it was bought our in 2018. No more balanced news. It is difficult to find balanced news these days. The same thing happened to Time before 2018 when they were bought out and it turned left.

My wife and I look forward to The Week every week, to catch up on the wide variety of politics, science, and entertainment news from around the world. It provides good value for its subscription cost, and excellent customer service.

Great magazine with balanced reporting and very broad coverage of what's happening in the world. I look forward to it arriving each week to give me the story behind the headlines. Just beware of their renewal letters. My original one year subscription was for $99. After six months they start sending renewal notices of anywhere from $180 to over $300. So each year at 11 months I have to go online, cancel my existing subscription and order a new subscription for the original $99. (I occasionally find magazine services selling The Week subscriptions for even much less.) So just don't sign up for auto-renewal.

I looked forward to The Week when it made good on their promise to be balanced and objective.

Then the "dump on Trump" publishing phenomenon proved irresistible to this book. Foe me that was their undoing. I can get that -- for free --from almost every ither MSM.

DISAPPOINTING. I enjoyed the crossword.

I used to enjoy reading most of your articles but now days I have a hard time getting around your increasingly bias writing. It's obvious you hate Trump but damm, give it up already. I'm tired of your constant bashing of conservative views. I've facted checked some your articles and found them to be inaccurate and wrong, ie. the Georgia voting laws, if you can't get that right, what else are you misleading about? I'm done with your biased lies!

The Week is a far-left rag that began years ago as moderate, printing articles supporting both sides of an issue. In recent years. it was become an outrageous P.O.S. mouthpiece for Socialism. With any luck I might have received my last issue. Over the years, I have gifted multiple subscriptions and have spent probably $700 and that is now a thing of the past.

I cannot overstate how absolutely terrible this magazine is.

The Week fills - or tries to fill - a much-needed hole in our news media, by giving both sides of important issues, with actual quotes. However, the news itself must be accurately presented, and I find that to be a problem - mostly on issues related to population size and immigration. A recent article on a slow-down on weddings in China completely mixed up the history of population size there. China's population is, indeed, shrinking, but that could not possibly be happening because of fewer weddings during Covid; it takes decades before a formerly huge and growing population can reverse direction, and it happened because during the Cultural Revolution, Chinese scientists were still allowed to read Western sources, including writers like Paul and Ann Ehrlich. The Chinese scientists realized that China would become unsustainable if its population continued to grow, and that led to the one-child policy. To imply, as The Week did last week, that the population is falling because fewer young people are marrying and don't want to have children "under a rigid Communist rule" is absurd, and reads as a pathetic effort at scoring political points. (And by the way, U.S. birthrates are below replacement level, and young people here are not rushing into marriage, either.) If The Week is worth its salt, it must report the actual news, and do it correctly. I have seen similar imbalances in The Week's reporting on nuclear power, too; the drift is to tell us that we must always grow our population (and economy, with it) and that we must love the desperate means (like nuclear power) needed to sustain that endless growth.