The Renters Take Providence

On September 9 the incumbent mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, Brett Smiley, lost his reelection bid to a twenty-seven-year-old democratic socialist named David Morales. It was the first time an incumbent mayor failed to win his party’s primary in the city’s history, and the latest in a wave of progressive victories over establishment Democrats that […]

普羅維登斯市長初選中，27歲的民主社會主義者莫拉萊斯擊敗現任市長斯邁利，住房危機與租金管制之爭成為決定勝負的核心議題。這場選舉也折射出美國多地左翼候選人借租客組織力量挑戰建制派的趨勢。