Politics & Power

Issue 30 • December 2025

Islamists versus Islamists
The Muslim Brotherhood’s return to Syria threatens confrontation with Sharaa

Issue 28 • September 2025

Rubber-stamp revival
Syria’s new parliament might be more of the same

Issue 27 • August 2025

New Age Salafism
Syria’s embrace of obedience over jihad

Issue 26 • July 2025

Angry Sunnis
President Sharaa’s base is beginning to ask awkward questions

Issue 26 • July 2025

Proxy vote
In Syria’s troubled transition, a weak legislature may be better than none at all

Issue 25 • June 2025

The Necessary Leader
He may not be ideal, but he can deliver

Issue 24 • May 2025

Syria’s phantom institutions
Promised state overhaul has delivered the illusion of government

Issue 23 • April 2025

The New Umayyads
Syria’s leaders is turning nostalgia into strategy

Issue 22 • March 2025

Swallowing the State
HTS is fashioning Syria in its own image

Issue 21 • February 2025

Syrian Opposition RIP
An obituary

Issue 20 • January 2025

The new deep state
How Al-Sharaa is consolidating power

Issue 19 • December 2024

The quasi-coup
Assad is gone but the deep state lives on

Issue 15 • August 2024

Regime in transition
How Assad is embracing change to maintain the status quo

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