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 […]

普罗维登斯市长初选中，27岁的民主社会主义者莫拉莱斯击败现任市长斯迈利，住房危机与租金管制之争成为决定胜负的核心议题。这场选举也折射出美国多地左翼候选人借租客组织力量挑战建制派的趋势。