Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”

—Quote attributed to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, repeated often by editor/journalist Lewis Lapham in the last year of his life (2024).

On June 13, 2025, in compliance with the United States Office of Government Ethics (motto: “Preventing Conflicts of Interest in the........

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