Powerbrokers

4IR

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.

How the Kushners Gifted Me a Story

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.

Open Sesame

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.

The Gold Rush

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.

Showdown

The terse back and forth between an American pope and president reflects a movement. Charlatan follows an unlikely skiff reshaping the American moment.

The Patriot’s Way

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.

The Affordability Tour

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.”

Q-Day

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.

Columbus Day Conundrum

Is it Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day? Charlatan follows in point of fact the New American Way.

The Blobfish Classic!

It was a grueling, sloppy, slow-motion car-crash on the half-court. Charlatan follows the slips, gimmicks & tricks of the new American knockout.

God’s Influencers

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.

Project 562

It's Independence Day, and heres what happens to people who get in our way.

The Motherload

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.

Age of Consent

She shut down an elitist sex trafficking network of Ivy League professors, billionaire playboys, and princes. Charlatan unpacks Jeffrey Epstein's Client List.

Pay for Play

The cost of an unstoppable force is the price of an immovable object.

White Collar Recession

The white collar recession is pummeling office workers, but the remedy is tried and true.

International Woman's Day

Virtue signaling is a voice. Sweat equity a choice.

Sins of the Fathers

Can a Holy Father atone for the genocide of the Indigenous Peoples? That answer lies somewhere in a penitential journey across Canada.