Welcome back to a jam-packed edition of The Best & the Brightest, featuring highlights from a leaked No Labels call: their “unity ticket” plans, fundraising strategy, the Harlan Crow wild card, and the Joe Manchin of it all. Also, a few words on the return of T.J. Ducklo. But first…

• Eat. Pray. Click: The now seemingly interminable White House Correspondents Association’s weekend, where everyone runs into everyone for five long days, is now notable only for the spats that emerge. Sometimes these little rows are public and unfortunate; other times, they are just silly.

  During a late after-hours event at the Swiss Embassy last week, Politico editor-in-chief Matt Kaminski had a “spirited” exchange with Jim VandeHei, the co-founder and former C.E.O of Politico and co-founder and current C.E.O. of Axios, who just enjoyed an enviable liquidity event when the latter was acquired by Cox for $525 million. The backstory here was...