The Backstory
Each Saturday, co-founder and editor-in-chief Jon Kelly offers readers the stories behind Puck’s most important pieces, alongside a weekly compendium of our work covering America’s power corridors—Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood—plus the business of fashion, sports, media, beauty, and art.
Archives
May 30, 2026
The ‘60 Minutes’ Discourse & A Lauder-Puig Autopsy
May 23, 2026
Bari Weiss Kremlinology & A $12B A.I. Mystery
May 16, 2026
The Times’s Legal Tempest & Sotheby’s $433M Night
May 9, 2026
D’Amaro’s Disney Manifesto & A Biden Bros Comeback
May 2, 2026
A CAA Legal War & S.B.F.’s $114B Play
April 25, 2026
Ellison Antagonists, Hegseth’s Little Buddy & The NFL’s D.C. Blitz
April 18, 2026
NFL War Games, Swalwell Theories & Arnault-ology
April 11, 2026
A D.C. Media Plot, Lively–Baldoni Beef Update & Armani Sweepstakes
April 4, 2026
Goodell’s War, Trump’s Katrina & Disney’s Next Opportunity
March 28, 2026
Trump’s Endless War Games, A Zaz Mystery & An NFL Blitzkrieg
March 21, 2026
A Netflix Payday, Ellisonworld Scandal & Altman’s Secret Agents
March 14, 2026
Bari-CNN Calculus, Trump’s Iran Mini Me & The NFL’s Legal Surprise
January 17, 2026
Iger’s Challenge, Bari’s Bildungsroman & The Gucci Glow-Up
January 10, 2026
Netflix Hunger Games, Bari Finishing School & Saks Anxiety
January 3, 2026
Altman’s Scary Math, Zaz-Ellison Heavy Petting & A Saks Switcheroo
December 27, 2025
An Ellison $4.3B Faux Pas, Xi’s A.I. Master Plan & The Mini Mamdanis
December 20, 2025
The Zaz-Ellison Powder Keg, Jared Kushner 2.0 & Chanel’s Big Boss
December 13, 2025
The Ellisons’ Blood Thirst, A Prada Scandal & Hegseth’s Caribbean Battlefield
December 6, 2025
The Netflix Shocker, A Prada Defenestration & P.E. Epstein Drama
November 29, 2025
James Cameron’s Netflix Prophecy, Jared Kushner’s Naivete & Jamie Dimon’s “Cockroaches”
