Here's what's in this week's issue of The Week magazine
12 April 2025
- Main stories: Trump’s experiment: Will it work?
- Controversy: Birmingham becomes a rats’ paradise
- People: The mother who took on a dictator
- Briefing: Trump vs. the world trade system
- Best British article: How abused employees are legally gagged
- Best American article: Deported by mistake: the Maryland man sent to El Salvador
- Best International article: Le Pen: is French politics rotten to the core?
- Health & Science: AI sensors to care for elderly people
- Talking points: Gaza: the killing of the paramedics
- Obituary: Val Kilmer: Hollywood’s “most difficult” leading man
- The Last Word: The woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease
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