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The “Trump Regretters” Caucus, A Beauty Industry Shake-Up,
Art’s New V.I.P.s
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Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon guide to Puck’s best new reporting.
Here’s what you need to know, and stick around for more on CBS News’s latest inflection point… |
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In the Room: A pair of CBS News reports pegged to the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attacks has reignited the newsroom’s anxiety over Bari Weiss, the network’s Israel coverage, and the potential for editorial interference. Dylan Byers digs into the flare-up, and why Israel remains the most combustible fault line of the Weiss era.
[Inner Circle Exclusive]
- The Best & The Brightest: Nearly a third of young, Black, and Latino Trump voters now regret their 2024 ballots, according to exclusive new focus group data.
Peter Hamby profiles the “Trump regretters” who, for all their buyer’s remorse, still don’t trust Democrats. [Read More]
- Wall Power: A rising generation of collectors is rewriting the rules of art
buying—a process long rooted in relationships and gatekeeping. Marion Maneker sits down with Jennifer Rubio and Sophia Cohen to discuss the changing landscape, why “access has replaced permission,” and what museums are getting right. [Inner Circle Exclusive]
- Dry Powder: A brutal, transatlantic brawl has erupted between creditors at Aston Martin, where new debtholders—led by BlackRock-owned HPS—have caused old debtholders’ bonds to crater. Bill Cohan charts the surprising twists and turns in an epic financing battle. [Read More]
- Line Sheet: The Detox Market, clean beauty’s highest-profile retailer, is quietly fading from the zeitgeist as its parent company pours resources into its sister makeup brand, Violet Grey. Anne-Marie Guarnieri examines the latest evidence of the category’s seismic decline, and why investors are now
chasing higher-end products. [Read More]
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The Powers That Be: Peter rings up Julia Ioffe to discuss Trump’s new oil export deal with Russia—and the uncomfortable reality that it could help fund Vladimir Putin’s war machine in Ukraine. [Listen Here or
Watch Here]
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And now, a little more on CBS News’s latest dust-up… |
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This week, in the wake of two reports pegged to the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attacks, CBS
News again found itself beset by familiar internal tensions. The flare-up began when 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl was reportedly miffed by Bari Weiss’s edits on a package about extremist Israeli settlers. But what truly sent the newsroom into overdrive was a now very public clash between correspondent Holly Williams and CBS News foreign editor Shayndi Raice, in which Raice demanded that Williams omit the death toll in
Gaza from an Evening News piece.
Both events, as Dylan notes, have rekindled anxieties about... |
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| Peter Hamby
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In an exclusive new focus group, Black and Latino men who voted for Trump in 2024 reveal all the reasons they regret their
choice—inflation, Iran, ICE—but also why they aren’t ready to vote for Democrats, either. |
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| Marion Maneker
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During the 2026 Art of Influence conference, insurgent collectors Jen Rubio and Sophia Cohen opened up about the art world’s diminished
gatekeepers, the generational shift in the market, the power of self-education, and the feeling of buying something few others can have. |
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| William D. Cohan
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Aston Martin, the august U.K. carmaker endorsed by 007, has touched off a transatlantic imbroglio after accepting a new round of
financing from HPS, the private credit arm of BlackRock, causing its bonds to crater. The twist here is that BlackRock is on both sides of this fight. |
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As consumers move off the clean beauty trend, retailers have started to feel the heat. At The Detox Market, a subtle shift in
resources may be telling a broader story. |
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