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 · 1 Nov 2026
U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS 2026
As America turns 250, the republic has assembled a colorful cast of characters. Charlatan follows what could be the biggest turnout in a U.S. midterm election cycle to a whodunit, American-style reckoning.
Powerbrokers · 18 Oct 2026
Columbus Day Conundrum
Is it Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day? Charlatan follows the new American identity.
Powerbrokers · 11 Oct 2026
The Nobel Prize 2026
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
The algorithm clocks in
Anarchy, protests, and algorithms wave goodbye to summer—and perhaps the American worker, too.
Powerbrokers · 23 Aug 2026
Albania Is Not for Sale
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
The Future is for Everyone
Superintelligence is the future. Charlatan follows the balance of power to an open weight muse glimmer in the hands of the people.
Powerbrokers · 2 Aug 2026
An American in New Malden
Everyone in London is talking about immigration. Especially the foodies. Contributor DAVE LANDY explains why the cultural proof is always in the pudding.
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 · 14 Jun 2026
World Cup 2026
How does a guy with a Sports Bucket List get into every sold-out event on earth? How does a guy with a Sports Bucket List get into every sold-out event on earth? Ask the man who won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Powerbrokers · 7 Jun 2026
The World’s Oldest Blue Chip
1.4 billion members. A trillion-dollar balance sheet. Eroding market share. Charlatan runs the numbers on the Roman Catholic Church.
Powerbrokers · 31 May 2026
Why the House Always Wins
Last week: Congressional insider trading. This week: the casino they built to do it in — and the crypto lawyer they hired to guard it.
Powerbrokers · 21 May 2026
Insider Trading in Washington
He had a front row seat at the 2008 Financial Crisis. DAVE LANDY has a ringside seat at SEC Chairman Paul Atkins’ circus, too.
Powerbrokers · 17 May 2026
The Legacy Suspect Pack
Jerome Powell's term ended Friday. Kevin Warsh takes over a Federal Reserve sitting on a fault line. Why the last independent fed chair just cleaned out his desk.
Powerbrokers · 19 Apr 2026
SHOWDOWN
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
Super Bowl LX
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 · 19 Jan 2026
The Super Models
The Supermodel's allegations of sexual misconduct and rape evince in the latest release of the Epstein Files renewed focus on modeling industry abuse and the cost-benefit of beauty.
Powerbrokers · 15 Dec 2025
The Private Credit Crisis
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
PEACE 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 · 18 Oct 2025
It is the largest extermination of an indigenous people in history. Contributor MATTHEW FLACKS sits down with historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to discuss the Removal Act and genocide of "An Indigenous Peoples'.
Powerbrokers · 21 Sep 2025
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire
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
Turning Point USA
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 · 24 Aug 2025
Remapping America
As Texas redistricts five GOP congressional seats for the state and nation, Charlatan follows the roadmap to 2026 and the Voting Rights Act.
Powerbrokers · 29 Jun 2025
White Independence Day
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 indemnified motherhood into the ethos of Americana.
Powerbrokers · 4 May 2025
The Billionaire’s Playboy Club
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
NCAA MARCH MADNESS
The cost of an unstoppable force is the price of an immovable object.
Powerbrokers · 30 Mar 2025
White Collar Recession & AI
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 · 16 Feb 2025
The Man Who Would Be King
Somewhere beyond the 49th parallel lies a repository of minerals, and the new command center of earth and heaven.
Powerbrokers · 9 Feb 2025
NFL Super Bowl LIX
Style, improvisation, and socially conscious hip-hop challenge status quo on Super Sunday.
Powerbrokers · 5 Jan 2025
American Terrorism 2025
Radicalizing the U.S. military isn’t new, it's just another wakeup call for the disbelievers.
Powerbrokers · 17 Nov 2024
Gen Y Goes to Washington
Youth and inexperience collide in Washington, DC.
Powerbrokers · 20 Oct 2024
Nobel Prize 2024
Never cross a swamp before consulting an alligator. Charlatan reviews the 2024 Nobel Prize.
Powerbrokers · 6 Oct 2024
The War of the Roses
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Powerbrokers · 17 Mar 2024
St. Patrick's Way
Marriage equality in style, sexism hits headwinds in the Emerald Isle.
Powerbrokers · 25 Feb 2024
Yulia Navalnaya
We were right til we weren’t; built a nation watched it burn; second round heres the spin; now the nations listening in.
Powerbrokers · 18 Feb 2024
The Toxic Workplace
It's not always why or when but where we choose the fight.
Powerbrokers · 10 Dec 2023
Nobel Prize 2023
The 2023 Nobel Prize points to life & living in a parallel universe.
Powerbrokers · 15 Oct 2023
Israeli-Hamas War 2023
Storming Israel may have been a provocation to a more complex scheme.
Powerbrokers · 11 Jun 2023
AI Revolution
Super-intelligent algorithms, brain implants, and zany holograms collide to decry mankind.
Powerbrokers · 21 Oct 2022
Sixty million people are currently looking for a country to call home. Contributor MATTHEW FLACKS talks with Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell about the largest migration in recorded history
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.
Powerbrokers · 28 Oct 2019
Its was a political cautionary tale for COVID-19. Contributor MATTHEW FLACKS talks with David Quammen about a global pandemic's origins and end game in "Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus."
Powerbrokers · 18 Oct 2019
The Election of 1800, Trump, and America's First Presidential Campaign
Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward Larson compares the first presidential race to the last, and explains why dirty tricks and a 2-party system are the synergy of democracy in "A Magnificent Catastrophe."
Powerbrokers · 18 Oct 2019
Trump, Kim Jong-un, and the Dark King of the Korean Peninsula
White House Security Advisor Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on the Kim Dynasty and future of the Hermit Kingdom.
Powerbrokers · 15 Jul 2019
He's the first conservative openly gay Member of Parliament. Contributor MATTHEW FLACKS talks with the Secretary of State at Westminster about the cut and thrust of coalitions, and why strange bedfellows often create the best alliances.
Powerbrokers · 28 Apr 2018
Syria's War of Exile — Refugees, Proxy Powers, and the Human Cost
Newsweek's Janine di Giovanni arrived in Damascus at the onset of Syria's Civil War encountering a dictator, pro-democracy rebels, and refugee crisis at the crossroads of a multi-faith society.
Powerbrokers · 16 Mar 2018
Mexico, the Border Wall, Brian Sandoval, and the Crossroads of American Politics
Construction of the controversial Mexico—U.S. Barrier Wall has begun. Contributor DYLAN SMITH explores how DACA, Dreamers and Governor Brian Sandoval are informing the New American Moment.
Powerbrokers · 9 May 2017
From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility
From the death of environmentalism to the politics of possibility, contributor Dylan Smith sits down with Michael Shellenberger to examine the fallacy of environmental politics and the future of a sustainable economy in "Break Through."
Powerbrokers · 28 Feb 2017
Trump's New American Moment and the Dynasty That Built It
"Meet the Trumps" follows one family from immigration to the White House. As the 45th President prepares his maiden speech to the U.S. Congress, Contributor DYLAN SMITH checks in at Trump Tower to listen in and learn the real State of the Union.
Powerbrokers · 26 Jun 2015
Marriage Equality 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court declares Same-Sex Marriage the new law of the land. Editor in Chief DREW GOWING remembers the controversial march toward Marriage Equality.
Powerbrokers · 11 Oct 2014
She deposed her father, created a 2-party system, and single-handedly created Great Britain. Contributor MATTHEW FLACKS visits the Lady Anne Somerset in London to discuss Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion.
Powerbrokers · 14 Jun 2014
The Price of Principle
Uneasy lies the head that wears The Crown.
Powerbrokers · 2 Nov 2013
Why We Hate the Oil Companies
Politicians use energy misinformation, disinformation, and lack of information to get and stay elected. Charlatan sits down with Shell Oil president John Hofmeister.
Powerbrokers · 15 Sep 2013
Steve Young
NFL Hall of Famer Steve on the LDS Church, Gay Rights, and Affirmation.
Powerbrokers · 7 Jul 2013
The Men Who Built America: John Keabler on Risk
He created the H-Beam and modern skyscrapper. Contributor BRENDA WENSIL chats with John Keabler about his portrayal of steel magnate Charles M. Schwab, and examines how he shaped the standards and practices of the U.S. Labor Force.
Powerbrokers · 20 May 2013
The Men Who Built America: Carnegie and the Gift Ethic
He was the richest man in the world. Contributor BRENDA WENSIL chats with Adam Jonas Segaller about his portrayal of the legendary steel magnate, Andrew Carnegie, and discovers why big philanthropy should never replace social justice.
Powerbrokers · 14 Apr 2013
Margaret Thatcher polarised opinion, policy and people more than any other figure in modern political history. Contributor MATTHEW FLACKS remembers the United Kingdom's Prime Minister and calulates her legacy to Britain and the world
Powerbrokers · 15 May 2011
Teenager Ethan Couch was exonerated from drinking, driving and vehicular manslaughter because his parents were wealthy. Contributor MATTHEW FLACKS chats with British psychologist Oliver James about Affluenza; The contagion and consequences of consumerism.
Powerbrokers · 5 May 2011
He won the World Cup and was knighted by the Queen. Contributor MATTHEW FLACKS chats with England National Rugby's Ben Cohen in London about the Standup Foundation.
Powerbrokers · 28 Apr 2011
Its the most watched costume drama in the world. Contributor MATTHEW FLACKS chats with Countess Fiona Carnarvon about how she and her predecessors save a modern castle.
Powerbrokers · 11 Feb 2011
The Fabric of Civilization: Rise and Fall of Textiles
America’s first exports were spun in southern textile mills. Contributor BRENDA WENSIL remembers the golden era of cotton.
Powerbrokers · 21 Sep 2010
The Courage to Act: Jennie Churchill and Her Winston
The 'Greatest Briton of All Time' may have been raised by an American Mom, but Winston Churchill's legacy may've come from the kismit of two multi-national, very colorful parents.
Powerbrokers · 18 Jul 2010
It’s the largest exodus of unaccompanied minors in history. Contributor MATTHEW FLACKS chats with Yale Professor Carlos Eire about the Cuban Revolution and Operation Peter Pan.
Powerbrokers · 8 Apr 2010
Person of the Year: The Teacher Behind Ben Bernanke
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was a scholar of the Great Depression but his High School teacher lived through and learned from it. Contributor BRENDA WENSIL encounters both student and teacher.
Powerbrokers · 29 Dec 2009
Wachovia Meltdown: An Insider on the Road to Abilene
How did Wells Fargo takeover Wachovia? Contributor BRENDA WENSIL had a front row seat during the 2008 Financial Crisis, and says it happened somewhere on the Road to Abilene.
Powerbrokers · 4 Jul 2009
Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee in 2008, Rep. Barney Frank explains Washington’s role, lack of oversight, and complicity in the Global Financial Crisis.