Condé Housekeeping, Ron’s White Flag, CNN’s Mission Statement

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your private guide to Puck’s latest reporting.

First up today, Bill Cohan wades into Wall Street’s favorite topics du jour: the intrigue surrounding Goldman’s post-Bayo boardroom shuffle and the odds that Nelson Peltz follows through with his proxy war at Disney.

Plus, below the fold: Matt Belloni clocks the disruptive potential of Apple’s Vision Pro headset. Dylan Byers offers a close reading of Mark Thompson’s long-awaited CNN manifesto. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and Matthew Bartlett mull DeSantis’s next act following his awe-inspiring campaign implosion. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby rings up Jon Kelly to discuss CNN’s fate, Pitchfork’s GQ tuck-in, and the latest headlines from the primary trail.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

Notes on the two hottest governance topics among the Maidstone crowd: Goldman’s post-Bayo board shuffle and Peltz’s latest monkey wrench.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Tim Cook’s fancy new $3,500 V.R. headset, which I recently (reluctantly) sampled, may seem like a gimmick—until you imagine the future of at-home theatrical. Take Steven Soderbergh’s latest movie as an example.

DYLAN BYERS

A spirited and polite disagreement evinces CNN’s new lay of the land, old anxieties, and the latest power dynamics.

TARA PALMERI

Tara is joined by Republican operative Matthew Bartlett to share their instant reactions to the news that Ron DeSantis dropped out of the presidential race. They discuss the factors that led to this decision and speculate what this means for the election and the G.O.P. going forward.