Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon assortment of Puck’s best new reporting.
First up today, Bill Cohan investigates how Wall Street is really responding to the latest outcry over 100-hour work weeks for junior bankers, why H.R. is not your friend, and how Lazard C.E.O. Peter Orszag has emerged as a defender of the culture’s status quo.
Plus, below the fold: Dylan Byers chronicles the latest twists in the implausible sexting scandale involving New York political reporter Olivia Nuzzi and fly-by presidential candidate R.F.K. Jr. In Washington, John Heilemann calls up Pete Buttigieg to get his candid views on J.D. Vance. Marion Maneker previews some of the seven-figure works that might rouse the art market from its slumber. On The Varsity, John Ourand is joined by NBC Olympics TV producers Molly Solomon and Amy Rosenfeld for a debrief on Paris and what to expect in 2028. On a special Media Monday episode of The Powers That Be, Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby dive into the aforementioned Nuzzigate political-media saga and whether the November election will affect NFL ratings. And on The Town, Matt Belloni chats with New York Times Magazine deputy editor Sasha Weiss about whether Netflix’s nine-hour Prince docuseries will ever escape its legal limbo.
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