The Best & The Brightest
The Best & the Brightest is Puck's daily political newsletter from Washington, featuring Tara Palmeri, Julia Ioffe, and Tina Nguyen (with cameos from the peerless Peter Hamby) on what's really happening in this town—inside the White House, Pentagon, Capitol Hill, and K Street; the machinations and insights of D.C.'s permanent political class; and the egos and intrigues transforming the modern G.O.P.
Julia Ioffe, Tara Palmeri, Tina Nguyen, and Peter Hamby
Archives
May 23, 2023
Putin’s Chef & the Biden-Xi Peace Plan
May 16, 2023
A Senate Gender Problem
May 9, 2023
Putin & Xi’s Must-See-TV
May 2, 2023
Biden’s Evan Gershkovich Prisoner Swap Dilemma
May 2, 2023
Biden’s Evan Gershkovich Swap Dilemma
April 25, 2023
Tucker’s Kremlin Salute & the Gen. Milley Doctrine
April 18, 2023
Intelligence Gossip & a Leak Postmortem
April 11, 2023
Mark Warner’s Anti-TikTok Algorithm
March 28, 2023
Biden’s Private Ukraine Deadline
March 21, 2023
Xi Jinping, Superstar
March 14, 2023
Putin’s Boy from Tallahassee
March 7, 2023
Surviving Putin
February 28, 2023
Putin’s Oligarchs Fall in Line
February 21, 2023
Peace & Gossip in Munich
February 14, 2023
Ukraine’s Four-Letter War
February 7, 2023
Balloon Mind State
January 31, 2023
Putin’s Plot Against America
January 25, 2023
The Putin Super Power Myth
January 24, 2023
The Putin Super Power Myth
January 18, 2023
DeSantis’s Magic Touch & Santos’s MAGA Shaman