Cop Block, Checkpoint USA Hold Contest To Create Videos On Fourth Amendment Rights

(MintPress) – “No one has the right to impede your freedom of movement or search your property when you’ve done nothing wrong — even if they wear a badge,” says the police accountability organization, Cop Block, on its website. Describing itself as a resource for the education of individual rights through the dissemination of different viewpoints […]

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

(MintPress) - “No one has the right to impede your freedom of movement or search your property when you’ve done nothing wrong — even if they wear a badge,” says the police accountability organization, Cop Block, on its website. Describing itself as a resource for the education of individual rights through the dissemination of different

Read Full Article

Dead In The Digital World: The Demise Of The Iconic Image

In the past news photographers dreamt of taking that one iconic frame during their career that would transcend time and remain a testament to history. I have taken hundreds of thousands of images over the course of my career, and even though some of them catapulted me briefly into the spotlight, none ever made it […]

Norbert Schiller
By Norbert Schiller

In the past news photographers dreamt of taking that one iconic frame during their career that would transcend time and remain a testament to history. I have taken hundreds of thousands of images over the course of my career, and even though some of them catapulted me briefly into the spotlight, none ever made it into the cherished

Read Full Article

No Evidence Congressional Committee Does ‘Utmost’ To Follow Up Drone Civilian Death Claims

Claims by a powerful Senate oversight committee that it is doing its ‘utmost’ to verify claims of civilian casualties from covert US drone strikes have been undermined by the discovery that it has made no contact with any group conducting field studies into civilian deaths in Pakistan. On Feb. 7 the CIA’s director-designate John Brennan […]

Chris Woods
By Chris Woods

Claims by a powerful Senate oversight committee that it is doing its ‘utmost’ to verify claims of civilian casualties from covert US drone strikes have been undermined by the discovery that it has made no contact with any group conducting field studies into civilian deaths in Pakistan. On Feb. 7 the CIA’s director-designate John Brennan was

Read Full Article

Approaches Toward Change: the Miami-Dade County Public Schools System

As part of an in-depth and ongoing investigation on the nature of poverty in the United States, Mint Press News has committed to not only profiling the existing problems facing the severely poor, but presenting possible solutions and revealing methodologies that have been successfully used to alleviate these social concerns. In this continuation of the […]

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

As part of an in-depth and ongoing investigation on the nature of poverty in the United States, Mint Press News has committed to not only profiling the existing problems facing the severely poor, but presenting possible solutions and revealing methodologies that have been successfully used to alleviate these social concerns. In this continuation of

Read Full Article

Health Care Tax Hikes For 2013 May Be Just A Start

New taxes are coming Jan. 1 to help finance President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Most people may not notice. But they will pay attention if Congress decides to start taxing employer-sponsored health insurance, one of the options in play if lawmakers can ever agree on a budget deal to reduce federal deficits. The tax […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press
In this Thursday, June 28, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington after the Supreme Court ruled on his health care legislation. (AP Photo/Luke Sharrett, Pool)

New taxes are coming Jan. 1 to help finance President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Most people may not notice. But they will pay attention if Congress decides to start taxing employer-sponsored health insurance, one of the options in play if lawmakers can ever agree on a budget deal to reduce federal deficits. The tax hikes already on

Read Full Article

Everything We Know (So Far) About Obama’s Big Data Tactics

This post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on Nov. 13. For the past nine months, we’ve been following how political campaigns use data about voters to target them in different ways. During the election, the Obama campaign, which had assembled a cutting-edge team of data scientists, developers, and digital advertising experts, refused […]

Lois Beckett
By Lois Beckett
In this Nov. 16, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama acknowledges House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio while speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, as he hosted a meeting of the bipartisan, bicameral leadership of Congress to discuss the deficit and economy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

This post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on Nov. 13. For the past nine months, we've been following how political campaigns use data about voters to target them in different ways. During the election, the Obama campaign, which had assembled a cutting-edge team of data scientists, developers, and digital advertising experts,

Read Full Article