The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders
The end of the house of Assad
How the new Syria might succeed or fail
Much will go wrong. But for now, celebrate a tyrant’s fall
A cyclist passes a painting on a shutter in a historical neighborhood in Seville, Spain
Spanish lessons
What Spain can teach the rest of Europe
Our number-crunching suggests it was the best-performing rich economy in 2024
A red arrow with circuits rises from gray clouds toward a golden coin, symbolizing crypto growth.
Artificial exuberance
America’s searing market rally brings new risks
Financial innovation is just as much to blame as the technological sort
This illustration shows a hand in a suit giving money (a green bill) to several raised hands reaching for it, symbolizing financial aid or distribution.
Abandonment anxiety
Multilateral institutions are turning away from the poorest countries
Even bail-outs are getting expensive
Person sweating after looking at reflection in mirror and seeing a neanderthal
Brain drain
Can you read as well as a ten-year-old?
Adults in rich countries are less literate than they were a decade ago. That requires attention
Letters
On nuclear weapons, Jordan Peterson, credit cards, John D. Rockefeller, our cover, behaving in lifts
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Holding the line
South Korea’s crisis highlights both fragility and resilience, writes Wi Sung-lac
Briefing
Top rebel commander Abu Mohammed al-Golani speaks to a crowd at Ummayad Mosque in Damascus
After Assad
Syria has exchanged a vile dictator for an uncertain future
It is not clear how stable or how benign the new regime will be
The torn down statue of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad.
An unexpected juncture
The Assad regime’s fall voids many of the Middle East’s old certainties
What if Syria abandoned its hostility to the West and stopped menacing Israel?
Asia
Thousands take part in a rally near the National Assembly Building to protest against South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, as local prosecution investigates Yoon under treason charges, in Seoul, South Korea.
The coup that crashed
South Korea’s unrepentant president is on the brink
Miracle or mirage?
Bangladesh’s economic progress may have been hyped
Banyan
India wields cricket as a geopolitical tool against Pakistan
Rubbish story
How to clean up India’s filthy cities
China
An illustration of a black dragon wearing a red hat with white writing on the front against a yellow background.
China and America
MAGA with Chinese characteristics
Intruder alert!
Chinese hackers are deep inside America’s telecoms networks
Language lessons
Why China is losing interest in English
Too much drama
China cracks down on Karate-chopping cleaning ladies
United States
Suspect Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (Benja
Message in a bullet
Luigi Mangione’s manifesto reveals his hatred of insurance companies
Reading, Writing and Wrestling
Donald Trump threatened to smackdown the education department
Tort report
America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being sued
The district attorney’s downfall
The Young Thug trial could be Fani Willis’s last big act
Lexington
Trump for Dummies
The Americas
Soybean meal in a warehouse.
European (g)ratification
Can an agreement with the EU resurrect Mercosur?
Unmasked
Nicaragua’s ruling couple tighten their grip
Energy (in)security
The Caribbean struggles to break its dependence on fossil fuels
Middle East & Africa
Protest against the election result in Maputo
Tremors of earthquakes to come
Protests have shut down Mozambique
Getting away with murder
Kenyan women are fed up with rampant sexual violence
Back in the dock
Binyamin Netanyahu is in court again in Israel
Playing on
Sudan’s football team wants to reach the World Cup
Europe
Spain, Palma: People watch the Christmas lights in the city center of Palma on Mallorca
La excepción
Spain shows Europe how to keep up with America’s economy
Not so fast
Syrian refugees in Europe are not about to flock home
Why buy the cow
The Polish restaurants that dare to be dairy
Uncertain reaction
Amid Russian bombing, Ukraine is planning more nuclear reactors
Cancel that
Why Romania cancelled a pro-Russian presidential candidate
Charlemagne
Europeans are hoping they can buy more guns but keep their butter
Britain
Cars and lorries stuck on A1 looking northbound between Morpeth and Alnwick.
Fixing the foundations
Britain’s government has only half a plan to improve infrastructure
A clamour for clans
A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourism
Peer pressure
Britain’s House of Lords purges itself
The foreign-aid fiddle
Britain’s aid budget is less generous than it looks
A novel award
And the prize for the oddest book title goes to…
An energy unicorn
The battles of Greg Jackson, Britain’s clean-energy disrupter
Bagehot
British politics enters the “death zone”
International
Cows
Bridging the dairy divide
What has four stomachs and could change the world?
The Telegram
The Art of the Deal: global edition
Business
Prosperity uncommon
From Apple to Starbucks, Western firms’ China dreams are dying
Add agencies
Farewell, Don Draper: AI is coming for advertising
All-In on Donald Trump
The PayPal Mafia is taking over America’s government
Trustbusting transformed
What Trump’s new antitrust enforcers mean for business
Food fight
Why judges were wrong to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger
The next big thing
What do the gods of generative AI have in store for 2025?
Bartleby
The employee awards for 2024
Schumpeter
Tesla, Intel and the fecklessness of corporate boards
Finance & economics
Stacks of gold, silver and bronze coins that look like a sports podium
Top of the charts
Which economy did best in 2024?
Monetary kombat
The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation
Buttonwood
Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rally
Dream, baby, dream
How much oil can Trump pump?
Stretched thin
The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries
Remedial classes required
Are adults forgetting how to read?
Free exchange
What a censored speech says about China’s economy
Science & technology
llustration showing two human profiles facing each other, connected by beams of light and shapes, representing the translation process
The Babel wish
Machine translation is almost a solved problem
Assistive intelligence
AI can bring back a person’s own voice
Vexing visits
Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportionately fast
Mystery story
Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
A thousand sails
Why China is building a Starlink system of its own
Culture
An open book with some digital display on each page
Full of sound and fury
The novel was a dominant art form last century
From the shelf to the couch
Does great literature translate into great television?
Twenty-sided dicing with death
How did “Dungeons & Dragons” win?
In tune with the times
The Economist’s pick of the best albums of 2024
The future of humanity
Was Henry Kissinger an AI “doomer”?
Singing from the same hymn sheet
The unholy alliance of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains
Islamist-led Syrian rebel fighters shoot in the air in the early hours of December 8, 2024, after taking over the central city of Homs overnight.
The Economist explains
Who are the main rebel groups in Syria?
Obituary
Shalom Nagar
The hangman’s tale
Shalom Nagar was picked by lottery to kill Adolf Eichmann
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