CHARLATAN
The Exposé of Politics & Style
Seventeen states and D.C. have already chosen the other holiday
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.
Perspective · 4 Oct 2026
The woman who prints the brief decides what the president knows
America, by rights, is in decline. Charlatan follows the build out to the new American Moment.
Perspective · 27 Sep 2026
How a 2023 definition cleared three new herbicides
The EPA has unleashed three pesticides to America's farmers, crops, food source and families. THEA KARLSSON traces the tumor data the agency waved off, and a Supreme Court ruling that makes forever chemicals the nation's future."
Politico · 9 Jun 2024
The Politics of Us and Them
The ten pillars from democracy to fascism begin with normalizing the intolerable. Charlatan talks with Jason Stanley about “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.”
Politico · 6 Jul 2025
One Big Beautiful Bill
U.S. signs a massive spending bill, and hands an ominous promissory note to its posterity.
Politico · 11 Nov 2023
The Holocaust and the Idyllic life
National defense is a policy; Ethnic Cleansing a paradigm; and deliverance a prophecy and promise.
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 · 30 Mar 2025
The white collar recession is pummeling office workers, but the remedy is tried and true.
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.
Perspective · 25 Sep 2020
How Healthy Coping Strategies and Nature Reconnection Can Guide Us Through the Pandemic
Covid-19 brought the world to a standstill. Psychotherapist MELISSA ST. JEAN explains why self-introspection was the pandemic's legacy.
Perspective · 24 Mar 2024
A quintessential entrance is knowing when to make an appearance.
A quintessential entrance is knowing when to make an appearance.
Perspective · 11 Apr 2026
NCAA Game-Fixing, March Madness, and the WNBA
A transnational betting scheme shadowed the NCAA's Money Madness. Charlatan follows the fixers to an offer the institution declined to make, and to the women and champions making the case that “It Just Means More.”
Places · 30 Aug 2015
In Bangkok, ritual, monarchy, and luxury illuminate Thailand’s distinctive approach to conflict and modernity.
Charlatan checks in to the Mandarin Oriental Bangkok and stumbles onto a revolt & reformation on the River of Kings.
Places · 10 Aug 2013
Brenda Wensil checks into Four Seasons Firenze and finds the Renaissance alive in palace walls, gardens, and art
Its the birthplace of the Renaissance. Contributor BRENDA WENSIL checks into the Four Seasons Hotel Florence and discovers the paintings, antiques and masters that created the modern age.
Places · 15 May 2013
A travel essay linking the Palace of Versailles, the Treaty of Versailles, and the Waldorf Astoria Trianon Palace
The Treaty of Versailles was signed at Trinon Palace. Charlatan checks-in to the Waldorf Astoria and learns that power is where power goes.
All the World’s a Stage
Make Sense of the Week’s News.
Charlatan follows the Worldview
CHARLATAN
The Exposé of Politics & Style
