The Assad regime’s fall voids many of the Middle East’s old certainties (www.economist.com)

Syria has exchanged a vile dictator for an uncertain future (www.economist.com)

How the new Syria might succeed or fail (www.economist.com)

How to clean up India’s filthy cities (www.economist.com)

Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rally (www.economist.com)

Luigi Mangione’s manifesto reveals his hatred of insurance companies (www.economist.com)

Can you read as well as a ten-year-old? (www.economist.com)

Multilateral institutions are turning away from the poorest countries (www.economist.com)

What do Syria’s other rebels want now? (www.economist.com)

Why judges were wrong to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger (www.economist.com)

Shalom Nagar was picked by lottery to kill Adolf Eichmann (www.economist.com)

The fall of Bashar al-Assad is a major blow for Iran (www.economist.com)

What do the gods of generative AI have in store for 2025? (www.economist.com)

America’s searing market rally brings new risks (www.economist.com)

Machine translation is almost a solved problem. Making it perfect will be a hard problem (www.economist.com)

AI can bring back a person’s own voice (www.economist.com)

Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportionately fast (www.economist.com)

Protests have shut down Mozambique (www.economist.com)

British politics enters the “death zone” (www.economist.com)