Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

Advances In Computer Science May Simplify Question Of Unwarranted Public Surveillance

“It’s essential that the legal and computer science communities work together,” one researcher says of stopping technology from encroaching on civil liberties.

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Over the last few years, the debate over whether a person is entitled to his or her privacy while in public has taken a fervent -- and at times, disjointed -- path. Since March, Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, New Hampshire, Tennessee and South Carolina have moved forward with legislation banning warrantless cellphone tracking. These states joined

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Civil Rights Leader Calls McDonald’s Protests Next Step In Civil Rights Movement

McDonald’s employees and those working for other low-wage employers feel the effects of the historic levels of income inequality in the U.S.

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Par Frederick Reese
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Rev. Dr. William Barber, president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP and one of the leaders of the Moral Mondays protests, equates the low-wage protests that have racked the fast food industry -- including the May demonstration at the McDonald’s Corp. headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, in which 101 protesters were arrested -- as the next

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World Bank Report Warns Of Increased Rioting As Food Prices Rise

A new report from the World Bank reflects the notion that a well-fed population is more willing to tolerate frustrations and perceived injustices than a starving one.

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Par Frederick Reese
Tunisia Riots

The price of food internationally has risen 4 percent between January and April 2014. This marks the first increase in food prices since August 2012 -- the historical peak for food prices. Though the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization projects the second largest cereal harvest for 2014/2015, the world’s grain production is expected

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It’s More Than Just NSA Troubles In China-IBM Dust-Up

“While it used to be that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, now that’s switching to: everybody gets fired for buying IBM,” according to one Beijing-based consultant.

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Par Frederick Reese
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The Chinese government has reportedly started reviewing whether China’s domestic banks’ use of high-end American-made IBM servers compromises the nation’s security, particularly with regards to financial espionage and sabotage. According to individuals knowledgeable of the situation -- as relayed by Bloomberg -- the People’s Bank of China and

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New Census Findings Herald The Return Of The “McMansion”

It’s not clear what’s driving the current high-value housing craze, but it’s definitely not most Americans.

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Par Frederick Reese
Construction Spending

The housing market has been one of the economic segments that has had the hardest time rebounding from the Great Recession. According to a recent assessment from Freddie Mac, only 10 states -- Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming -- have stable housing markets. This is based on

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Vaccinating Africa Against American Interests

Hesitation and even rejection of Western vaccination efforts in the Islamic world reflect larger issues of trust with the West, especially the U.S.

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Par Frederick Reese
Kenya East Africa Vaccines

Last week, Lisa Monaco, a senior counterterrorism and homeland security adviser to the White House, promised that something that happened in 2011, would never happen again. The incident cited by Monaco occurred in 2011, when the CIA sent a senior Pakistani doctor to collect DNA samples under the ruse of a vaccination drive in a town thought to

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Federal Government Knowingly Destroyed Evidence Of Electronic Spying

A digital rights group alleges that the federal government flouted a court order in place to protect evidence of the NSA’s electronic surveillance relevant to ongoing litigation.

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Par Frederick Reese
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a brief on Friday telling a federal judge that there is no doubt that the federal government knowingly destroyed years of evidence of electronic surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency -- despite a court injunction being in place to order the evidence’s protection. The brief came in

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