CHARLATAN
The Exposé of Politics & Style
Powerbrokers follows the people behind the headlines—those who shape events, command institutions, and move markets. From billionaires and politicians to cultural figures and shadow networks, Powerbrokers maps the architecture of influence. These are not just profiles. They are examinations of power itself—how it is built, how it operates, and how it endures.
Powerbrokers · 18 Oct 2026
The fight over a holiday is a fight over American identity
Is it Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day? Charlatan follows the new American identity.
Powerbrokers · 11 Oct 2026
He campaigned for the Peace Prize. The committee gave it to a judge.
The prize he coveted the most went to a nemesis. As America tries to run the world by fiat, Charlatan follows the Nobel Prizes pushing back.
Powerbrokers · 6 Sep 2026
88,000 job cuts and counting, with AI cited by name
Anarchy, protests, and algorithms wave goodbye to summer—and perhaps the American worker, too.
Powerbrokers · 23 Aug 2026
Albania is not for sale, and Tirana marches nightly to say so
He doesn’t get caught. He gets neighbors who do. Contributor DAVE LANDY arrives to Albania wildfires, a Gulf-American financial portfolio, and the emerging Flamingo Revolution.
Powerbrokers · 16 Aug 2026
Meta wants to distribute superintelligence. Meta owns the lamp.
Superintelligence is the future. Charlatan follows the balance of power to an open weight muse glimmer in the hands of the people.
Powerbrokers · 5 Jul 2026
The Gold Rush: What the Swift-Kelce Wedding Reveals
Before 1970, more than 80% of Americans 25–34 were married. By 2023, that statistic fell to 38%. Charlatan follows college-educated, higher-income Americans to an increasingly elitist institution of marriage.
Powerbrokers · 19 Apr 2026
The terse back and forth between an American pope and president reflects a movement. Charlatan follows an unlikely skiff reshaping the American moment.
Powerbrokers · 8 Feb 2026
Sports betting, AI-driven technology, and CEO-style coaches are reshaping the national pastime. Charlatan unpacks why the New England Patriots modern dynasty is theirs to lose.
Powerbrokers · 15 Dec 2025
As the Feds cut interest rates whilst inflation rises, Charlatan follows AI to private credit lenders, a financial crisis, and man’s ubiquitous search for “Universal Extreme Wealth.”
Powerbrokers · 19 Oct 2025
There is a future point in time, as yet undefined, when mankind will create exquisite chaos. There is reason to celebrate, and reason to fear, what it portends. Charlatan follows the math and science to Palestine, and those who won and lost the Nobel Prize in 2025.
Powerbrokers · 21 Sep 2025
It was a grueling, sloppy, slow-motion car-crash on the half-court. Charlatan follows the slips, gimmicks & tricks of the new American knockout.
Powerbrokers · 14 Sep 2025
As they embrace the internet, the young are rising in might and right. Charlatan examines the saints & sinners being radicalized and exalted by the digital age.
Powerbrokers · 29 Jun 2025
It's Independence Day, and heres what happens to people who get in our way.
Powerbrokers · 11 May 2025
She’s the patron saint of Mother’s Day. Charlatan salutes the social activist who brought the ethos of hearth and home to a community’s beautiful chaos.
Powerbrokers · 4 May 2025
She shut down an elitist sex trafficking network of Ivy League professors, billionaire playboys, and princes. Charlatan unpacks Jeffrey Epstein's Client List.
Powerbrokers · 6 Apr 2025
The cost of an unstoppable force is the price of an immovable object.
Powerbrokers · 30 Mar 2025
The white collar recession is pummeling office workers, but the remedy is tried and true.
Powerbrokers · 2 Mar 2025
Virtue signaling is a voice. Sweat equity a choice.
Powerbrokers · 24 Jul 2022
Can a Holy Father atone for the genocide of the Indigenous Peoples? That answer lies somewhere in a penitential journey across Canada.
CHARLATAN
The Exposé of Politics & Style
