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Since Graham Platner’s Senate campaign imploded earlier this month, our feeds have been clogged with autopsies of what, precisely, went wrong—most of which are longer than the simple two-word answer I myself would give (“Nazi tattoo”). But few armchair coroners are as perceptive as Maria Comella, a campaign consultant who has a great piece in VF today about the real problem: “a wayward consultant class that will back anyone to win because winning achieves personal ambitions for power and money.” (A political operative who dings other political operatives? Call her the Dexter Morgan of DC.) Read on for both insight and zingers, including this personal favorite: “Operatives pushed a candidate under the guise of authenticity. They learned that Platner is indeed authentic: authentically terrible on multiple counts.”

Elsewhere, Prince George is officially a teenager, a fact so shocking I have to take the rest of the day off. More tomorrow!

HILLARY BUSIS,
FEATURES EDITOR

Ops and Ends: How Graham Platner’s Senate Campaign Unraveled

BY MARIA COMELLA

A former consultant to Andrew Cuomo and Rudy Giuliani writes for Vanity Fair about how both parties have lost the plot, as the Maine Senate situation so perfectly illustrates.

Culture Watch

ROYALS

Prince George Is Getting a “Low-Key Party” for His 13th Birthday

BY KATIE NICHOLL

Insiders tell Vanity Fair how the teenage prince will mark the occasion—and what Kate Middleton plans to bake.

From the Archive

Shattered Glass

BY BUZZ BISSINGER

At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.