Döpfner’s Mega Move, Glossier in Translation, Wall Street’s M&A Blues

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your digital menu featuring Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, John Heilemann shares his candid conversation with second gentleman Doug Emhoff, in which they discuss his path from uber-lawyer to political super-spouse, Kamala’s evolution as a leader, the Trump-Loomer head-scratcher, and much more.

Plus, below the fold: Rachel Strugatz evaluates Glossier’s bid to finally lure a buyer with a pair of hot new fragrances. Dylan Byers rounds up the internal chatter at ESPN following the abrupt exit of scoop machine Adrian Wojnarowski. Bill Cohan investigates a Wall Street deal flow mystery. On The Powers That Be, Dylan and Peter Hamby wade into ESPN’s post-Woj talent pool and the looming KKR-Axel Springer split. And on The Town, Matt Belloni is joined by The Black List founder Franklin Leonard to debate the lingering effects of the writers strike on the screenwriting profession.

JOHN HEILEMANN

A candid conversation with Doug Emhoff about how he’s preparing for the final sprint of the campaign, Trump’s unfitness for office, how he’s handling Laura Loomer’s meshuga attacks, and where he was when Kurt Cobain died.

RACHEL STRUGATZ

Emily Weiss’s $2 billion beauty brand is launching not one but two new perfumes this autumn, perhaps hoping that another dose of lightning in the bottle could seduce that long-awaited deep-pocketed suitor.

DYLAN BYERS

It seemed implausible that Adrian Wojnarowski would leave more than $20 million on the table for the prospect of unlimited family time and his sanity—this is television, after all! But the craziest part of this story may be that there is no crazy part, after all.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

Today, the Fed cut interest rates by 50 basis points. Meanwhile, the economy is thriving, and the stock and bond markets are rallying. So why is deal volume down 30 percent from last year? And why is the I.P.O market so lackluster? A revealing conversation with a top banker in the C-suite.