On this day 38 years ago, The Jam released its first single, a pretty good wake-up song entitled “In the City.”

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On this day 38 years ago, The Jam released its first single, a pretty good wake-up song entitled “In the City.”
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.
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