Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore is 54 today. Here’s DM performing my favorite song of theirs, “Stripped,” as recorded in D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary about the band’s 1989 North American tour, 101.
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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