Chad Powers Goes Global: How a Mustachioed Quarterback Is Quietly Re-Writing Soft-Power Playbooks COPENHAGEN—Somewhere between a NATO summit and the latest climate meltdown, the planet has discovered its newest diplomatic weapon: a 27-year-old American wearing wrap-around shades and a fake mustache that looks like it was stolen from a 1970s adult-film extra. “Chad Powers,” the…
Jonah Coleman and the Global Ripple of One Man’s Very Public Mid-Life Crisis by “Lazlo Marquez, roving correspondent for the terminally bemused” ISTANBUL — In the grand bazaar of modern notoriety, every hour now coughs up a new Jonah Coleman. Ours happens to be the 34-year-old former logistics manager from Portland, Oregon who, on the…
PARIS – In the long, tedious annals of human attention‐seeking, few phenomena travel faster than a twenty-something American who can contort his face like Silly Putty and speak fluent internet. Enter Drew “Druski” Desbordes, a Georgian (the state, not the country) whose primary export is the sort of manic befuddlement that translates into every language…
