Thinker's Chronicle

Category: Edition 63

  • Rishi Sunak––the Latest to Fill the Seat of British PM

    Rishi Sunak––the Latest to Fill the Seat of British PM

    Enter Rishi Sunak. 42 year old British politician of Indian descent. Previous UK finance minister and current leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister. After Liz Truss resigned from her post after a disastrous six weeks, the race for PM split between Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, and Grant Shapps. After each dropped out from the race, Sunak was elected on October 24 as the first British Asian and practicing Hindu to be the British Prime Minister. Newly crowned King Charles III appointed Sunak to this role.  Beginnings Rishi Sunak, after studying philosophy, politics, and economics from Lincoln College and Oxford,

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  • Attack on Paul Pelosi

    Attack on Paul Pelosi

    The quiet tinkle of the glass shards falling to the floor was soon overpowered by the crunch of the intruder’s boots, as he made his way through the now demolished window and into the house. A hammer in his right and zipties clenched in his left hand as he sauntered over to Paul Pelosi: who slept on the bed oblivious. The intruder hunched over Pelosi as he loudly demanded the location of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  In the predawn hours of Friday, October 28 Paul Pelosi was jerked out of his slumber as the intruder, David DePape, grilled him on

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  • Seoul Halloween Stampede

    Seoul Halloween Stampede

    Thousands of people, children, and adults were all compressed into one small commercial area in Seoul, South Korea. After years of enduring a suffocating pandemic, these people went out on a Halloween festival hoping to find some relief or joy, instead, they found themselves choking, struggling for air. As the crowd started to reach a narrow alleyway known for its party scene a few people started to push others, and before they could even realize what was happening, they started to fall one by one like dominos. People began stacking on top of each other like cookies in a jar.

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  • Respect for Marriage Act

    Respect for Marriage Act

    Someone once said “history repeats itself,” and today, as we celebrate the last few remaining months of 2022, Justice Clarence Thomas has called into reconsideration a case from history. Obergefell v Hodges was the 2015 decision that established a constitutional right to same-sex marriages in the United States. The roots of this decision digs deeper, questioning the historically perceived meaning of marriage––“a conjugal bond”––that is a union between a man and a woman and the act of procreation that is connected with it. However, as we all move a step ahead, we need to start embracing the widening horizons of

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  • COP27 Climate Summit

    COP27 Climate Summit

    Leaders from around the world have come together to discuss solutions for some of the biggest challenges the world faces, including climate change. At the COP27, world leaders will work towards a cleaner, greener planet. The COP27 goes by many different names, such as the Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties. From November 6 to November 18, these leaders are meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Starting in 1992, these summits usually take place every year, but they had been postponed, like almost everything else in the world, due to COVID-19. The COP that was supposed to take

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