World Weekly is a student club at Grace Church School in Manhattan. Every week we take thirty minutes to talk through the news that mattered — what happened, how the threads connect, and who it reaches. Once a month, we write it all down.
No slides, no homework. We pull up the week's biggest stories and argue our way through them — tracing how a headline in one place ripples into the world around us, and into our own lives.
We meet, and each of us brings the story we couldn't stop thinking about.
We map the week — how the pieces relate, and what history they rhyme with.
Who does this reach? We look for the people behind the abstractions.
What do we actually think — and what, if anything, should we do about it?
Four weeks of talk, distilled into one newsletter.
World Weekly began at Grace Church School with a simple idea: the news is easier to carry, and easier to understand, when you have people to think through it with.
So we made a standing appointment with the world. Every week we sit down for half an hour, put the headlines on the table, and take them seriously — not as trivia to memorize, but as a shared picture we're all living inside of.
We think that habit shouldn't belong to a debate team or a newsroom. It belongs to anyone willing to spend thirty minutes looking outward. That's the club we're trying to build, and the reason we're writing it down.
Read the week together. Once a month, hand it to everyone else.
It starts with a yearly recap. From September, we publish a new issue every month — the four weeks, recapped.
A year of U.S. immigration policy — the story that wouldn't leave our table, and the reason we're headed to El Paso.
Our monthly recaps begin in September — four weeks of news in one read.
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Some stories wouldn't leave our weekly table. Immigration came up again and again — so this year the two of us are getting on a plane.
We're traveling to El Paso, Texas to volunteer with Doctors of the World, supporting immigrants and families arriving at the border. It's the club's first attempt to stand where the news is actually happening — to turn a half hour of talk into a week of showing up.
We'll bring it all back to the newsletter: what we saw, who we met, and what it changed about how we read the world.
◍ In partnership with Doctors of the WorldYou don't have to be a news junkie or a debater. You just have to be curious about the week the rest of us are living through.
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One email a month. The four weeks, recapped — nothing else.