Josephine Lee

Nov 5, 2024 | kpcnotebook.scholastic.com | Josephine Lee

In May 2020, Colin Crooks was serving as the British Ambassador to North Korea. His social media posts about the small country in East Asia became immensely popular. Crooks was born in Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom (UK). With his observations, he shed light on North Korea, which has been a dictatorship for several decades. During the coronavirus pandemic, the country was completely closed off from the world. Embassies there closed, and Crooks had to leave his post.

Nov 5, 2024 | kpcnotebook.scholastic.com | Josephine Lee

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Oct 20, 2023 | thenation.com | Sasha Abramsky |Mike Konczal |Josephine Lee |Kirk Maynard

Economy / After Kaiser Permanente agreed to a minimum wage of $25 for its employees in the state, will the rest of the country follow? Ad PolicyLast week, labor scored its latest victory in a long run of success stories in 2023.

Oct 12, 2023 | thenation.com | Hillel Schenker |Dan Sinykin |Emily Raboteau |Josephine Lee

Just 50 years after the Yom Kippur War, Israel was surprised once again, and once again we have entered a new post-conception era. But there is a big difference between now and then. After Golda Meier refused to accept Anwar Sadat’s offer to return Sinai in exchange for peace, Sadat, who had declared a number of “years of decision,” felt he had no alternative but to launch a war to break the impasse.

Oct 12, 2023 | thenation.com | Caroline Tracey |Josephine Lee |Amy Littlefield |Julie Poole

How one small change to Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure created a cascade of problems for the state’s capacity to investigate death. Ad PolicyThis story was completed with the support of a Neal Peirce Foundation Journalism Grant. On a Tuesday afternoon in December 2021, a police officer in Hidalgo County, Tex., found the body of 47-year-old Yvonne Salas on the kitchen floor of a mobile home.