Pro-establishment narrative

This report marks an important step in reorientating federal policy to counteract past horrors. The federal government has revealed and is taking responsibility for how cultural erasure and the forced assimilation into white culture has continued to affect indigenous communities. This will provide a valuable roadmap towards healing.

Establishment-critical narrative

This is too little, too late. Unlike in Canada, the US government has never acknowledged how many children attended these schools that facilitated rampant physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. The federal government has sidestepped accountability for decades by failing to declare how many children died or went missing or, even, how many of these institutions existed. A formal apology and reparations are long overdue.

Left narrative

The attack on the Capitol was not a spontaneous event. It was a deliberate and organized attempt to overturn the will of the American electorate. With every interview, the Jan. 6 Committee gets one step closer to holding those who organized and incited the violence accountable, including the former president.

Pro-Trump narrative

Trump is trying to defend democracy, not subvert it. Biden and his campaign boasted during the 2020 campaign that they had recruited hundreds of lawyers to fight the election result in the event that they lost. Hypocritically, the Jan. 6 Committee now considers the same approach a crime when done by Trump.

Anti-Russia narrative

This invasion is an egregious violation of international law. Putin's ultimate aim is to restore the Soviet empire, even if it takes massive bloodshed and false pretexts such as calling the 2014 Ukrainian revolution after a fraudulent election a "coup". This unprovoked attack is the latest chapter in Putin's Orwellian attempt to rewrite history.

Pro-China narrative

NATO and the US have ignored Russia's security concerns by breaking their promise not to expand eastward in return for German reunification. These concerns are legitimate and taking them seriously would have avoided the Ukraine tragedy.

Nerd narrative

There is a 50% chance that Ukraine will formally pledge not to join NATO before 2024, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

Narrative A

Musk is a savvy businessman. This latest gambit will either depress the price of Twitter and allow him to renegotiate the deal on more favorable terms, or allow him to walk away altogether - just as a drop in Tesla's share price has made the venture less affordable for the billionaire.

Narrative B

Twitter's board could easily say "we can't give it to Elon Musk, he'll break it!" In fact, the board should have rejected Musk's offer from the start on the perfectly legal and rational grounds that he would have irreparably harmed the company if it evolved into his newest plaything.

Right narrative

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard has become one of the region's most powerful and dangerous military organizations, training and arming terrorist proxies in places like Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Concessions are only going to embolden this radical organization and lead to further mayhem in the Middle East.

Left narrative

Any threat currently posed by Iran would be far worse should it obtain a nuclear weapon. Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 agreement only made that possibility more likely. These concessions are necessary in the interests of wider national security.

Establishment-critical narrative

Placing the Revolutionary Guard on its terror blacklist was the first time in history that Washington designated part of a sovereign government as a terrorist organization. Reversing this is an essential step before Iran can return to any deal.

Nerd narrative

There's 30% a chance that the US will rejoin the Iran nuclear deal before 2023, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

Pro-Trump narrative

These subpoenas were leaked to the press before they were even delivered to the GOP lawmakers. This shows the degree of coordination between Democrats and the liberal media as they both conduct a partisan witch hunt. The Jan. 6 Committee is more interested in headlines than the truth.

Left narrative

Jan. 6 was an assault on the most basic tenets of American democracy that free and fair elections have consequences and the American voters get to choose their elected representatives. These lawmakers have evidence of a plot to overturn the election, and the American people deserve to know the full extent of their machinations.

Anti-China narrative

Beijing fears that any trace of freedom in Hong Kong might spread to mainland China and undermine CCP legitimacy. By arresting Zen, pro-Beijing authorities are attempting to curb religious liberty. This is their latest venture after extinguishing political dissent, freedom of the press and the independence of the judiciary.

Pro-China narrative

This is simply about law and order being correctly enforced by Hong Kong authorities. Illegal activities must be punished regardless of who takes part in them. The arrest of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund's trustees is justified - this was an irregular organization funded by anti-China forces.

Left narrative

The crisis isn't just about the backlog. There are around 110K NHS vacancies; without more funding and staff, patients will continue to suffer and die unnecessarily and the public health service will continue in a state of perpetual crisis.

Right narrative

More spending won't solve the problems of the NHS. Cheques have been written unconditionally for years, but there is seemingly no appetite for the levels of private-sector intervention that have kept people healthy and safe in other European systems. The government shouldn't be tackling a problem caused by state intervention with more state intervention. Union demands to limit working hours and patients add to the problem.

Establishment-critical narrative

Current backlogs in the NHS aren't being helped by unions like the BMA, who are demanding limits on GP patient numbers and working hours. The moves of union members will worsen waiting times and exacerbate the deterioration of emergency services.

Left narrative

This is an attack on freedom of speech. Wednesday's decision will allow HB 20 to be enforced before the court has even ruled on its legality, risking huge ramifications. It could reshape the rights and obligations of all websites, our relationship with technology and the internet, and even our basic understanding of the First Amendment.

Right narrative

For centuries common carrier laws have required certain industries to operate without discrimination. The new Texas law is simply applying these historical precedents to the modern public square social media. Big tech has a history of censoring content and blocking accounts it doesn't agree with, and it's time to hold them accountable.

Narrative A

It would be unacceptable to have the Nordic pair in the alliance while they had close ties with anti-Turkey terrorist groups. This vow to modify policies is an important step, but it still needs to be implemented in order to tackle threats against Turkey, a long-time NATO member and its second-largest standing military,

Narrative B

Turkey has used Finland and Sweden's NATO bids to advance its racist anti-Kurdish agenda, testing how far it could go in blackmailing the alliance. NATO's future is now at risk as the alliance created to protect liberal democracies has become hostage of Erdoğan's authoritarian regime.

Narrative C

The deal reached between Finland, Sweden and Turkey reinforces NATO's position, sending a clear message to the Kremlin. The Nordic expansion of the alliance is a massive defeat to Putin, who sought to prevent the alliance's enlargement by invading Ukraine.

Nerd narrative

There is a 98% chance that Sweden will join NATO before 2024, according to the Metaculus prediction community.