Kamala Haterade, Gaza’s Polling, Neumann’s WeWork Shocker

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon bouquet of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Julia Alexander brilliantly deciphers the raison d’être for the WBD-Disney-Fox three-headed sports skinny bundle, codename “Spulu.” To wit: Who, exactly, is the new streamer for, and do the economics make sense at all?

Plus, below the fold: Teddy Schleifer chronicles Biden’s maiden post-Hur drive-by fundraising tour. Julia Ioffe converses with political scientist Amaney Jamal about her indispensable polling work inside Gaza. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri locks horns with conservative journalist Charlie Spiering over Kamala’s credentials. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Julia Ioffe dig into her fresh reporting on the Israel-Hamas nightmare, while Bill Cohan gives Ben Landy the skinny on what’s happening with Adam Neumann’s WeWork play.

JULIA ALEXANDER

It’s been a week since ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced their enigmatic three-headed sports skinny bundle. The industry is overwhelmed with questions, but one thing seems certain: this thing isn’t here to stay.

TEDDY SCHLEIFER

As the president heads to the West Coast to raise money on the heels of the Hur Report, the big-money crowd is asking existential questions and finding familiar answers. Plus: the inside story of why the R.F.K. super PAC refunded $10 million to Bezos’ security guy.

JULIA IOFFE

Amaney Jamal, the Palestinian-American dean of Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, on polling inside a war zone, whether both sides still support two states, and how Palestinians are processing a generational calamity.

TARA PALMERI

Today, Tara invites conservative journalist Charlie Spiering onto the pod to chat about his new book ‘Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House.’ They discuss Kamala’s career and journey to the White House, how she’s performed as vice president, her relationship to the Bidens, and how exactly her approval rating might affect Biden’s current campaign for reelection.