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 Results Are In: Races That Were Too Close To Call

President Barack Obama , joined by his wife Michelle, Vice President Joe Biden and his spouse Jill acknowledge applause after Obama delivered his victory speech to supporters gathered in Chicago early Wednesday Nov. 7 2012. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) (MintPress) – Yesterday was the first day of the rest of our lives. In this, the first non-”election […]

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President Barack Obama , joined by his wife Michelle, Vice President Joe Biden and his spouse Jill acknowledge applause after Obama delivered his victory speech to supporters gathered in Chicago early Wednesday Nov. 7 2012. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

(MintPress) – Yesterday was the first day of the rest of our lives. In this, the first non-”election build-up” day in two years, Americans across the continent and throughout the world can breathe easily, knowing the toil of their democratic requirement is behind them for this cycle. Pessimists are returning from underneath their beds, little

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Going Against The Law To Protest Criminal Acts: War Tax Resisters And The Rebellious Spirit

Priscilla Adams is shown in her Camden, N.J., office Wednesday, July 23, 2003. Adams, 50, a longtime peace and justice organizer for her Quaker religion, finds herself at the center of a second court battle with the Internal Revenue Service. She has refused to pay at least some of her federal taxes since 1974. (AP […]

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Priscilla Adams is shown in her Camden, N.J., office Wednesday, July 23, 2003. Adams, 50, a longtime peace and justice organizer for her Quaker religion, finds herself at the center of a second court battle with the Internal Revenue Service. She has refused to pay at least some of her federal taxes since 1974. (AP Photo/Joe Kaczmarek)

(Mint Press) — Nov. 5 is Guy Fawkes Day in Great Britain. Guy Fawkes led a failed coup d’etat against the British government in 1605, which was punctuated by the attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The bombing was to happen during the state opening, in which the king, the commons members and all of the Lords would be present. The

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Highly Contested Races And Legal Pitfalls: An Election Day To Remember

Kimberly Fisher, from White Haven, Md., casts her ballot at a polling place at the Wicomico County Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury, Md., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, after superstorm Sandy passed through the area. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (MintPress) — It’s Election Day in America, and across the nation, patriots of all walks of life […]

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Kimberly Fisher, from White Haven, Md., casts her ballot at a polling place at the Wicomico County Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury, Md., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, after superstorm Sandy passed through the area. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

(MintPress) — It’s Election Day in America, and across the nation, patriots of all walks of life are getting up and heading to the polls to democratically participate in the governance and future of this country (while apathetics hide under their bed to wait things out, bottle of booze in hand). In the world’s oldest demonstration of peaceful

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Tracing The Cause Of The Middle East Crisis: The Balfour Declaration

In recent weeks, protesters have called for the United Kingdom to formally recognize Palestine. The U.K. recently discouraged Palestine’s observer status in the United Nations despite the World Bank and the European Union attesting to the analysis that Palestine is ready to be a state. The U.K. has found itself in the impossible position of […]

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In this Monday, Jan. 5, 2009 file photo Palestinians carry the bodies of three toddlers Ahmed, Mohamed, and Issa Samouni, who according to Palestinian medical sources were killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)

In recent weeks, protesters have called for the United Kingdom to formally recognize Palestine. The U.K. recently discouraged Palestine’s observer status in the United Nations despite the World Bank and the European Union attesting to the analysis that Palestine is ready to be a state. The U.K. has found itself in the impossible position of

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The State Of Voting: International Observers, Dirty Tricks And Democracy

Voters arrive during the first day of early voting at a Travis County mega voting site Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck) (MintPress) – In a statement dated Oct. 30, Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz announced that international election monitors observing the upcoming national election in the state will face arrest and […]

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Voters arrive during the first day of early voting at a Travis County mega voting site Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

(MintPress) – In a statement dated Oct. 30, Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz announced that international election monitors observing the upcoming national election in the state will face arrest and criminal charges if they attempt to be present at polling places Election Day, as reported by the Des Moines Register. The Telegraph reports that

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The Changing Face Of Neighborhoods In An Age Of Gentrification

A man walks down a residential Brooklyn street on the site of the proposed $4 billion mega-development Atlantic Yards project in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (MintPress) – A 75-year-old grandmother looks forward to her autumn years in the only home she has known for 40 years. In her small, rent-controlled […]

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A man walks down a residential Brooklyn street on the site of the proposed $4 billion mega-development Atlantic Yards project in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

(MintPress) – A 75-year-old grandmother looks forward to her autumn years in the only home she has known for 40 years. In her small, rent-controlled apartment, she raised her children, survived inner-city violence and decay and became a pillar for her self-contained community. She could have stayed in this paradise of her own making for the rest of

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Obama, Romney And FEMA: The Political Response To Hurricane Sandy

The view of storm damage over the Atlantic Coast in Seaside Heights, N.J., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, from a helicopter traveling behind the helicopter carrying President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, as they viewed storm damage from superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, Pool) (MintPress) – Last weekend, one of the largest storms to […]

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The view of storm damage over the Atlantic Coast in Seaside Heights, N.J., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, from a helicopter traveling behind the helicopter carrying President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, as they viewed storm damage from superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, Pool)

(MintPress) - Last weekend, one of the largest storms to hit the United States plowed through the Atlantic Seaboard. The near-record hurricane devastated cities from North Carolina to Upstate New York, killing 108 worldwide. With 15.3 inches of rainfall reported at Andrews Air Force Base, 94 mph wind gusts in Eatons Neck, N.Y., 33 inches of snow in

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