All posts tagged: narratives

Under the fog of ceasefire: Competing narratives over the peace talks – Scoop

Under the fog of ceasefire: Competing narratives over the peace talks – Scoop

Published by Sam Flores

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again SCOOP © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 10/04/2026 – 15:13 13:46 min From the show Reading time 1 min This week on FRANCE 24’s media show Scoop, we examine confusion over whether the US–Iran ceasefire includes Lebanon. The United States and Israel say it does not, while Iran and mediator Pakistan insist it does. Despite hopes for a lasting truce, the information war continues. Our guests this week are Joyce Karam, editor-in-chief of Al-Monitor, and Barry Malone, former Africa and Middle East correspondent for Reuters.  By: Source link

Five Bitcoin Narratives Analysts Are Watching Beyond Price

Five Bitcoin Narratives Analysts Are Watching Beyond Price

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Bradley Peak via CoinTelegraph.com, Key takeaways ETF flows reveal real institutional demand beyond short-term price moves. Bitcoin treasury stocks can turn BTC exposure into an equity risk shaped by index rules. Low fees are reviving questions about how Bitcoin may pay for its long-term security. Scaling now means choosing between Lightning, L2 designs and protocol upgrades. Everyone’s watching Bitcoin’s price, but in 2026, it’s often not the most informative signal. That’s why it helps to understand what analysts look at when the chart isn’t explaining why the market is moving or where it may move next. The focus shifts to factors that can quietly reshape Bitcoin’s demand, liquidity and long-term narrative: Who’s buying through exchange-traded funds (ETFs), how “Bitcoin treasury” stocks are treated by indexes, whether miners are earning enough to secure the network, what scaling actually looks like today and how regulation is shaping mainstream access. Here are five Bitcoin narratives worth watching beyond price in 2026. 1. Reading institutional demand through ETFs ETF flows may be one of the clearest institutional …

Philosophy as Resistance: Polarization, Narratives and the Evaluative

Philosophy as Resistance: Polarization, Narratives and the Evaluative

Published by Jenni Sidey

As a philosopher working on interdisciplinary issues such as the polarization of public opinion, I’m often asked two things: what role philosophy plays in relation to this topic and what can be done to reduce polarization. In this post, I’ll address both of these points with the aim of showing that philosophy is crucial for studying polarization, and that certain interventions only become visible when we approach the issue from philosophy. Let’s start by laying out the standard, widely accepted story about what’s happening with public opinion in many contemporary democracies. Several opinion surveys include questions asking participants to report their feelings toward political parties, political leaders, and partisans—usually on a scale from 0 to 100, where “0” means cold or unfavorable feelings and “100” means warm or favorable ones. Drawing on data from various sources, Shanto Iyengar and other scholars found in 2012 that the gap between citizens’ positive feelings toward their own group and their negative feelings toward the opposing group had grown in the U.S. They coined the expression “affective polarization” to …