S.B.F.’s Legal Pickle, Disney Smoke Signals, The Energy Wars

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

Today, we lead with Tina Nguyen’s insider analysis surrounding DeSantis’s ongoing failure to launch: Is Casey the silver bullet? Can you take the Florida out of the man? And was his campaign always D.O.A.?

Plus, below the fold: Bill Cohan taps Dan Yergin for an expert guide to the global energy wars. Dylan Byers interprets the latest Iger succession smoke signals. On The Powers That Be, Teddy Schleifer joins Peter Hamby for a candid conversation about Sam Bankman-Fried’s tightening legal noose, before charting the latest moves by ’24 megadonors. And on The Town, Matt Belloni trades notes with Rebecca Keegan about how the Barbie phenomenon will transform the entertainment industry writ large.

TINA NGUYEN

The DeSantis campaign was supposed to be executing the “reset” it promised donors after weeks of gut-punch headlines. Instead he’s spending his time talking about purging the Justice Department—and still getting labeled a squish. Can anyone but Casey reach him?

DYLAN BYERS

Days after Matt’s scoop about Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ return to help their old boss, the town’s attention is focused precisely where you’d expect it…: succession.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

My wide-ranging conversation with Dan Yergin, the renowned energy consultant and Pulitzer-winner and vice chairman of S&P Global, about everything from the Chinese economy and OPEC to nuclear power and U.C.O.

PETER HAMBY & TEDDY SCHLEIFER

Teddy Schleifer joins Peter for a conversation about Sam Bankman-Fried’s tightening legal noose. Then they chat about the latest action among the ‘24 megadonors.