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

The Bitcoin Hype Has Been Spent, So What’s Next?

It may be the case that the cryptocurrency is most valuable as a development platform for other products — products that could ultimately revolutionize the ways we think about and handle data.

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Par Frederick Reese

The U.S. Marshals Service announced last Monday that it will be auctioning off 50,000 of the bitcoins it seized from the accounts of Ross William Ulbricht. Ulbricht, who operated under the pseudonym the Dread Pirate Roberts, allegedly operated the first iteration of Silk Road, the online marketplace accessible only through Tor that sold drugs,

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GOP Needs To Clear Net Neutrality, Immigration Reform Hurdles On The Way To 2016

The Republicans’ midterm success may be more reflective of Democrats not getting out to vote than representative of a strong GOP base that’s able to hold onto power past 2016.

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Par Frederick Reese
John Boehner

The Republicans’ win on Election Day has radically affected the partisan dynamics in Washington. With the Republicans now holding a two-seat majority over the Democrats in the Senate and enjoying their largest majority in the House since World War II, the traditional pushback against the president’s party during his second midterm election --

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2014 Elections Paint Gruesome Future For Republican Party

With Republicans likely to take the Senate on the back of the “six-year itch,” the lead-up to 2016 is going to reveal whether the GOP can overcome party in-fighting and come up with a unified front to address the nation’s dilemmas.

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Par Frederick Reese
Tom MacArthur, Chris Christie

As early voting in the 2014 midterm elections begins, questions on the composition of the Congress for the final quarter of the Obama presidency are proving increasingly relevant. With gerrymandering making the House non-competitive, and with Senate Democrats facing both the “six-year itch” -- which historically tends to work against the party in

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The Fate Of Net Neutrality: A Complicated Dance Between Corporate Interests And Consumer Demand

“In this democratized system we call the Internet, anyone can put up an idea and it can be weighed fairly and openly by the consumer,” one Internet start-up CEO says. As consumers increasingly turn to video streaming services, what will that mean for net neutrality?

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Par Frederick Reese

In a town hall meeting in Los Angeles earlier this month, President Barack Obama reaffirmed his commitment to net neutrality and his opposition to the notion of “fast lanes,” or special rates for unrestricted broadband access for specific customers. "I am unequivocally committed to net neutrality," Obama told a group of company startup founders

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Racism And Unchecked Police Violence: An American Epidemic

Communities are uniting in their lack of faith in police and standing up to law enforcement, but underlying issues like racism still need to be addressed if communities like Ferguson and the nation as a whole are to move forward.

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Par Frederick Reese
Police Shooting Missouri

FERGUSON, Mo. -- In Ferguson, Missouri, the crisis that was ignited this summer by the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson continues to burn. Before a Cardinals-Dodgers game on Oct. 7 in St. Louis, for example, protestors outside of Busch Stadium rallying for the indictment of Wilson were met

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Race And Racism Define Southern Politics, But Maybe Not For Long

The GOP wouldn’t be wise to think it can rely on its white voter base in the South for much longer. Despite an onslaught of restrictive voting laws in recent years, Republicans will need to shift gears from the “Southern Strategy” to inclusion to stay relevant.

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Par Frederick Reese
Senate Mississippi

Long-term Republican Sen. Thad Cochran defied popular thinking in June by defeating his Tea Party primary challenger Chris McDaniel in a runoff. Part of Cochran’s success can be attributed to 17 percent more voters turning up to polls for the runoff than for the primary. The other factor contributing to Cochran’s win was his exploitation of

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Who’s Getting Caught In The “School-to-Prison” Pipeline? And Why?

The U.S. prison population is disproportionately black. The same racial disparity can be seen in the students who are punished in the nation’s schools. The connection between these two phenomena are stronger — and more insidious — than many may understand.

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Par Frederick Reese
Chicago Schools Safe Passage

A crisis continues to unfold in the United States’ prisons, where the prison population is vastly disproportionate to the country’s general population demographics. Per 2013 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, blacks represented 13.2 percent of the U.S. population, yet, according to the Sentencing Project, blacks represented 38 percent of all

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