Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest.

Happy Wednesday, I’m Dylan Byers, filling in with an inside look at the shakeup atop one of Washington’s most iconic media institutions. John Harris is back in charge of the Politico newsroom, heralding a return to the company’s roots and the next stage of Mathias Döpfner’s global ambitions.

Meanwhile, be sure to check out my partner Teddy Schleifer’s surprising and engrossing behind-the-scenes reporting on why federal prosecutors are scrutinizing whether crypto lobbyist Michelle Bond and her boyfriend, former FTX executive Ryan Salame, may have violated election law last year—an inquiry that may also serve a higher purpose for the feds as they turn the screws on S.B.F. Teddy has followed the inside story of the FTX fallout at every turn, and this is a subplot only insiders know.

But first, a few words from Puck’s own Capitol Hill correspondent, Abby Livingston…

By Abby Livingston

• Santos Unshocker: New Yorkers are getting sick of the sideshow that is George Santos’ political career. A half-dozen House Republicans came out Wednesday in favor of censuring the serial fabulist—most of them from Santos’s own delegation. While the move was initially led by...