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This one is a tribute to my wife, Dawn, who not only makes sure I’m awake and functioning each daylight, but makes the day worth living. It’s a lovely, lost pop classic from 1979, from Judie Tzuke, “Stay With Me Till Dawn.”
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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