Articles by Oscar Reyes

Source: Foreign Policy in Focus

Market forces, state and local action, and strong social movements could blunt the impacts of a denialist White House.

One of the sad ironies of Donald Trump’s victory is that climate change has risen up the political agenda only after the campaign, when both candidates and debate moderators largely ignored it. Trump’s denialism in the face of an urgent, planetary threat provides some potent imagery for how the devastation caused by his presidency might look.

Climate scientists have been quick to condemn Trump’s election as a “disaster,” and it’s not hard to see why. read more

Source: Foreign Policy in Focus

The 2016 vote may have been a disappointment to Spain’s insurgent progressives. But they’ve proven they’re here to stay.

1. The vote was a stalemate, but the political landscape has changed.

Spain voted on June 26 with polls suggesting that the populist progressive Podemos party would overtake the traditional Socialist Party, PSOE, as the main left-wing opposition to the center-right Popular Party, or PP. Some thought the electoral math might even favor a progressive government headed by Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias. read more