Daylight Video

by Ed Kilgore
Politics

Okay, up and at ’em: On this day in 1990, the album Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em began 21 weeks as number one on the U.S. pop charts, mainly thanks to this song.

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Ed Kilgore

Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.