WNBA Game Theory, Gen Z’s Trumpnesia, The Chanel Shake-Up

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon mélange of Puck’s best new reporting.

Today, we lead with John Ourand’s remarkably candid chat with WNBA commissioner and former Deloitte C.E.O. Cathy Engelbert regarding the league’s watershed season, the dark art of creating team rivalries, the real impact of Caitlinsanity, and much more.

Plus, below the fold: Lauren Sherman gets under the hood of Karlie Kloss’s enigmatic Bedford Media. Matthew Belloni diagnoses Netflix’s self-inflicted Baby Reindeer legal migraine. Peter Hamby illuminates Gen Z’s Trumpnesia and the impact for Biden. On Fashion People, Lauren and Marie Claire E.I.C. Nikki Ogunnaike dish about Chanel, Nike, and running a magazine in ’24. On Impolitic, John Heilemann rings up George Stephanopoulos to chew over the media’s continued normalization of Trump. And on Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and Michael LaRosa reveal the tenuous relationship between Biden’s White House and the press.

JOHN OURAND

A very candid chat with Cathy Engelbert, the former Deloitte C.E.O. who became the commissioner of the WNBA in 2019.

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LAUREN SHERMAN

News and notes on Karlie Kloss’s forays into magazine publishing.

MATHEW BELLONI

Netflix is pushing the stalker drama for Emmys as a “true story” even as key facts have fallen apart and its subject has sued for defamation. Now, TV Academy voters have a chance to reject the dishonest campaign.

PETER HAMBY

A new poll finds that not only do many young and first-time voters not really remember the chaos of the Trump years, but they don’t really care that much, either, when presented with examples of Trump’s most inflammatory rhetoric.